WASHINGTON — The Senate confirmed a brand new chief for the U.S. Air Pressure’s info warfare department, the most recent transfer in a shuffling of cybersecurity management within the army.
Air Pressure Maj. Gen. Kevin Kennedy was authorised by voice vote to move up the sixteenth Air Pressure (Air Forces Cyber) and obtain his third star on June 23, roughly one month after President Joe Biden nominated him.
He didn’t bear a affirmation listening to. The Senate Armed Providers Committee superior his nomination earlier this month.
The sixteenth Air Pressure was created in late 2019, after the service mixed and deactivated the twenty fourth Air Pressure and the twenty fifth Air Pressure. The sixteenth Air Pressure is an amalgam of cyber, digital warfare, intelligence and climate disciplines.
Officers on the time of its creation stated the power would higher place the Air Pressure for a brand new age of warfare, one which more and more depends on affect campaigns and skirmishes beneath the edge of armed, bloody battle.
Kennedy succeeds Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who lawmakers in Could confirmed as the most recent deputy of U.S. Cyber Command, or CYBERCOM, a unified combatant command that guards Pentagon info networks and coordinates our on-line world operations.
Kennedy beforehand served because the director of operations for CYBERCOM, starting in 2020.
Senators this 12 months additionally confirmed a brand new head for Army Cyber Command in addition to a brand new chief of Navy Fleet Cyber Command.
Colin Demarest is a reporter at C4ISRNET, the place he covers army networks, cyber and IT. Colin beforehand lined the Division of Power and its NNSA — particularly Chilly Conflict cleanup and nuclear weapons growth — for a day by day newspaper in South Carolina. Colin can be an award-winning photographer.
