The Louisiana folks interested in gaining the Air Force’s new Cyber Command are working more than land to sweeten the pot. The Shreveport Times reports that Bossier Parish and Bossier City area officials are beginning to look at helping develop a potential workforce, not just for the new command but for the related facilities and businesses certain to congregate around the new command. Louisiana is joined in this race to secure Cyber Command by California, Nebraska, and Texas—at least those are the ones we know so far.
A provision in the fiscal 2025 defense policy bill will require the Defense Department to include the military occupational specialty of service members who die by suicide in its annual report on suicide deaths, though it remains to be seen how much data the department will actually disclose.