United States Cyber Command

United States Cyber Command
Emblem of U.S. Cyber Command
Active	23 June 2009–present
Country	United States of America
Type	Subordinate Unified Command Advanced Persistent Threat Unit
Role	Cyber Warfare Administration
Part of	U.S. Strategic Command
Garrison/HQ	Fort George G. Meade, Maryland
Nickname(s)	USCYBERCOM or CYBERCOM
Commanders
Current commander	Admiral Michael S. Rogers, USN

United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) is an armed forces sub-unified command subordinate to United States Strategic Command. The command centralizes command of cyberspace operations, organizes existing cyber resources and synchronizes defense of U.S. military networks.

Cyber Command was created in 2009 at the National Security Agency (NSA) headquarters in Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. It uses NSA networks and has been headed by the Director of the National Security Agency since its inception. While originally created with a defensive mission in mind, it has increasingly been viewed as an offensive force.

According to the US Department of Defense (DoD), USCYBERCOM "plans, coordinates, integrates, synchronizes and conducts activities to: direct the operations and defense of specified Department of Defense information networks and; prepare to, and when directed, conduct full spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to enable actions in all domains, ensure US/Allied freedom of action in cyberspace and deny the same to our adversaries."

The text "9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a", which is located in the command's emblem, is the MD5 hash of their mission statement.

The command is charged with pulling together existing cyberspace resources, creating synergies and synchronizing war-fighting effects to defend the information security environment. USCYBERCOM is tasked with centralizing command of cyberspace operations, strengthening DoD cyberspace capabilities, and integrating and bolstering DoD's cyber expertise.

USCYBERCOM is an armed forces sub-unified command subordinate to United States Strategic Command.

U.S. Cyber Command is composed of several service components, units from military services who will provide Joint services to Cyber Command.

These are the known military specialties directly involved with cyber. Service members enlisted under these specialties may be assigned to their respective Cybercommand Service Component Command.