The “pause” the Air Force’s new leadership has put on the service’s push to create a Cyber Command—which generated numerous news reports that the whole enterprise was down the drain—prompted Louisiana officials to trek to Washington to find out the status themselves. Officials from Bossier Parish and Bossier City, near Barksdale Air Force Base, met this week with Congressional staffers for Louisiana lawmakers and private companies potentially interested in the Cyber Innovation Center and National Cyber Research Park in the works near Barksdale, calling the sessions “very productive,” reports the Shreveport Times. Louisiana is one of several states that have been vying to host the new command and rightly felt it had a leg up over other contenders since Barksdale is the current site for Cyber Command Provisional. Last week, as word spread of the Air Force’s cyber pause, Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) cited the Russian incursion into Georgia and the accompanying Internet attacks as “a stark reminder that the threat of cyber terrorism and warfare is very real.” She said in an Aug. 13 statement, “These attacks in Georgia should put the new Air Force leadership on notice that the time for the US to act on a strong cyber defense command is now, and any transitional delay must be extremely limited.”
How Miss America 2024 Took the Air Force Somewhere New
Dec. 20, 2024
When 2nd Lt. Madison Marsh became the first ever active service member crowned Miss America on Jan. 14, top Air Force officials recognized a rare opportunity to reach women and girls who otherwise might not consider military service as an option.