An Air Force spokesman dashed a little cold water on Louisiana hopefuls who thought Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne’s pronouncement last week of Barksdale AFB, La., as the provisional headquarters for the new Cyber Command meant they had won the race. The Shreveport Times reports that Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick said Friday, “The final location of a Cyber Command has not been determined.” That puts the other hopefuls—California, Nebraska, and Texas—still in the running. And, we find that there is a fifth contender. The Daily Press reports that Hampton, Va., where Langley Air Force Base is home to the Global Cyberspace Integration Center, has an ongoing effort to secure the new 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…