The U.S. Department of Defense formally asked lawmakers to kill a proposal that would require an independent assessment of establishing a separate cyber service. In April Rep. Mike Gallagher, Chairman of the Cyber, Information Technologies and Innovation Subcommittee suggested an independent evaluation of a notional Cyber Force, to be led by an entity other than the Department of Defense.

Mieke Eoynag, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy felt that a cyber service might have some benefits in ease of administrative management, but the Pentagon has a variety of military services in the Department of Defense who perform a variety of missions so having a cyber service that is divorced from those particular missions sets may pose some challenges in understanding the warfighting needs of the services to provide cyber to enable that fight. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page