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Army Cyber Officials Meeting Next Week On Expanding Command’s Role

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, August 2nd, 2018

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Army Cyber Officials Meeting Next Week On Expanding Command’s Role

Maj. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, the new commander Army Cyber Command

The leader of Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER) is looking to expand his command’s role beyond ‘cyber,’ to include greater electronic warfare and information operations capabilities, with a planned summit next week to begin drafting a new operational statement for the next one to three years.Lt. Gen Stephen Fogarty, who assumed the helm of ARCYBER in April, told attendees at a Thursday AUSA event that the summit would bring together top Army EW and signals & intelligence officials to ensure his…

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