NSA chief may lose US Cyber Command role
Folks in the Pentagon appear to be rethinking the idea that one person should be in charge of both the NSA and the United States' cyberoperations.
Top military officials are considering separating the role of National Security Agency director and the head of Cyber Command, a former high-ranking administration official on Monday told The Hill.
Gen. Keith Alexander was tapped to become head of America's national spying agency in 2005, and took up the additional role of the head of Cyber Command five years later. The mission of Cyber Command is essentially to synchronize the Defense Department's various networks and cyberspace operations to better defend them against the onslaught of cyberattacks.
