Army Cyber Command is in the process of transitioning to Fort Gordon, which already is home to the Army Cyber Center of Excellence, the Army Cyber School as well as the 7th Signal Command. Also onsite are the National Security Agency's local facilities.
Beyond that, the "Cyber Center of Excellence, really for the first time, brings together Army Signal Operations, Army Cyber Operations, and Army Electronic Warfare Operations underneath one umbrella," said MG Stephen Fogarty, commander of the Army Cyber Center of Excellence and Fort Gordon. "So what that allows us to do is make sure that we deliver a much more holistic capability to support Unified Land Operations than the Army had previously. We are at our initial operating capability now and we think over the next three to five years, we'll attain full operations capability."
Other pieces of the Army's Cyber Mission Forces, which comprise much of Army Cyber Command and the service's operations in cyberspace, also have reached initial operating capability and are on track toward full operational capability, Army leaders said.
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