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Gen. Alexander Discusses Emerging DoD Cyber Force Teams

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, March 13th, 2013

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The head of the military’s Cyber Command yesterday disclosed that the Defense Department is in the process of creating and training its core set of teams that would operate in cyber space, with responsibilities for both offensive and defensive operations, as part of the effort to implement the department’s cyber space strategy issued in 2011. “The teams are analogous to battalions in the Army and Marine Corps, or to squadrons in the Navy and Air Force,” Gen. Keith Alexander, commander…

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