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Members of the Massachusetts Army National Guard discuss a simulated exercise at Cyber Yankee 2025 at the Edward Cross Training Center, May 14, 2025. Cyber Yankee is a regionally focused exercise evaluating a whole-of-government response to a significant cyber incident involving critical infrastructure and key resources. The participants work on simulated exercises together to perform incident response, threat analysis, and cyber defense operations. (Massachusetts Army National Guard photos by Laura Berry)

National Guardsmen receive brief from Volt Typhoon utility victim at cyber exercise

Cyber Yankee is a New England-focused exercise involving Guardsmen and utilities gaming cyber responses to critical infrastructure intrusions.
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Inside U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade, Maryland. (Josef Cole / DOD / U.S. Cyber Command)

DOD leadership asks for Cybercom 2.0 relook

After the implementation team delivered its report detailing how Cyber Command aims to modernize, Pentagon leadership asked the command for a redo.
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 28: The U.S. Capitol building is seen on April 28, 2025 in Washington, DC. Members of the House of the Representatives and the U.S. Senate returned to Washington after a two week recess. (Photo by Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)

Members of Congress vow not to split Cyber Command, NSA

Severing the dual-hat leadership arrangement has been one of the most hotly contested issues in cyber policy.
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A sign for the National Security Agency (NSA), US Cyber Command and Central Security Service, is seen near the visitor’s entrance to the headquarters of the National Security Agency (NSA) at Fort Meade, Maryland, February 14, 2018. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Firing of top cyber general ‘sets back’ US military and intel operations, makes America ‘less safe,’ lawmakers of both parties say

There was bipartisan criticism Friday of the Trump administration's decision to fire Gen. Timothy Haugh as head of U.S. Cyber Command and the NSA.
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant General Timothy Haugh waits for the beginning of his confirmation hearing before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence at Hart Senate Office Building on July 12, 2023 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump fires Gen. Timothy Haugh from leadership of Cyber Command and NSA

Gen. Haugh is one of the most high-profile national security officials to be removed by President Trump in the early months of his second term.
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