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The 24th Air Force in 2013 opened a new facility in San Antonio, Texas, fo r A ir Force cyber
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G r e a t t h in g s d o c o m e
in
Communications Center, produc
ing and disseminating intelligence
data for the Air Force Security Ser
vice Agency.
That expanded to include EW
in the 1960s, leading in 1975 to its
designation as Air Forces first EW
center. With the rise of what was
known as Information Warfare
in the early 1990s, the organiza
tion became the Air Force Informa
tion Warfare Center and, ultimate
ly, the 688th Information Operations
Wing, assigned to the 24th Air Force
at Joint Base San Antonio in San An
tonio, Texas.
Maj. Gen. James Kevin McLaugh
lin, commander of the 24th Air
Force and Air Forces Cyber, has
said the Air Force will add some
1,500 cyber positions during the
next two years, even as the ser
vice undergoes an overall down
sizing. They will focus on the Air
Forces growing reliance on net
works, data centers, mobile devic
eseven cloud computingwhich
already has led to malware infec
tions, every 60 seconds, of more
than 200 computers linked to nu
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U.S. Army cyber warriors at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, look through information inside the
Combined Air and Space Operations Center-Nellis during a recent Red Flag exercise. (Air
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The Navy also has been refocus
ing and strengthening its cyberwar
capabilities, as outlined in the U.S.
Navy Information Dominance Road
map2013-2028 and further ex
panded by the August 2014 creation
of Task Force Cyber Awakening
(TFCA) within the Office of the Dep
uty Chief of Naval Operations for In
formation Dominance (N2/N6).
This is not only an enterprise ef
fort, but also critical warfighting,
Matthew H. Swartz, director-Communications & Networks Division
(N2/N6F1) and TFCA lead, told a m e
dia roundtable on 31 October. Cy
ber is not just a new warfighting ef
fort for us, but also a critical enabler
for our other warfighting domains
and a new domain itself. In the last
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The NexGen Cyber Innovation and Technology Center (NexGen) is for cyber research, and is the
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