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Navy Finishing New Cyber Strategy, Includes Offensive Capabilities

Thursday, April 9th, 2015

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Navy Finishing New Cyber Strategy, Includes Offensive Capabilities

Kevin Cooley, Executive Director and Command Information Officer for Fleet Cyber Command/the 10th Fleet. Photo: U.S. Navy.

Offensive cyber operations is one of five components that will be in a new U.S. Navy Cyber Command cyber strategy being completed for its fifth anniversary."You don't win a knife fight without swinging a knife. We're spending time making sure we're ready to execute should those options be considered appropriate by national command authority to do that,” Kevin Cooley, executive director and command information officer for Fleet Cyber Command and the 10th Fleet, said on Tuesday.The strategy outlines the model…

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