Cyber Command HQ decision still months away

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Cyber Command HQ decision still months away
John Andrew Prime - The Shreveport Times
Posted : Tuesday Feb 26, 2008 11:04:07 EST

The Air Force will spend the next several months devising the methodology to select the base that will be home to the new Air Force Cyber Command, its head learned in a conference call Friday with top service brass.

“It was the Pentagon guys informing the rest of us that they have to come up with ... an eight-step process to do this ,” said Maj. Gen. William Lord, who is commander of the new command, starting up in a provisional form at Barksdale Air Force Base, La.

“They’re experts at this, so it’s not like they have to invent it from scratch, but they have to document it, and ... get the secretary’s general counsel to OK that process. That’s what they’re doing right now.”

The process will determine the effect that basing the 541 people of Cyber Command’s headquarters could have on area schools, infrastructure, communications and transportation, and how these will affect the operation of the command. Lord agreed with spokesmen for Secretary of the Air Force Michael Wynne, who said the process will delay selection of the new command’s home base “into the fall of this year.”

Besides Lord, participants in the call included William C. “Bill” Anderson, assistant secretary of the Air Force for installations, environment and logistics, and the Air Force’s senior energy executive; Lt. Gen. Kevin J. Sullivan, deputy chief of staff for logistics, installations and mission support at headquarters U.S. Air Force; Lt. Gen. Michael W. Peterson, chief of warfighting integration and chief information officer in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force at the Pentagon; and Maj. Gen. William A. Chambers, director of communication, also in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force.


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