Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne earlier this week confirmed his announcement that the provisional headquarters for Cyber Command would stand up at Barksdale AFB, La. However, the final location for the new major command, whose shorthand moniker will be AFCYBER (P), is still a question mark. When Wynne mentioned last week the provisional standup location, Louisiana officials took that as a sign they had won the race over rivals California, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia. The Air Force plans to install a major general to head the interim command. There is no word yet on the rank for the ultimate boss of Cyber Command.
Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III chaired a China-focused military briefing Oct. 27, part of a biweekly series of briefings with senior military commanders about China’s growing threat in the wake of an orbital hypersonic weapon test that elicited public worries from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. “What we…