Attacks on critical infrastructure — food and water delivery, health care services, defense contracting and more — could hamper U.S. military response. The window to apply to become an Air Force warrant officer in cyber or IT runs through May 31, the service said Thursday. Home addresses of 7,554 individuals, and the names and employee identification numbers of another 3,146, inadvertently were released. The program will add more satellites and capabilities every two years. Air Force warrant officers could bridge the knowledge gaps between niche specialties like expeditionary communications and defensive cyber operations. A training pipeline for up to 30 junior warrant officers could be in the works to begin later this year. CYBERCOM stands at a pivotal point, now more than a decade old and undergoing what officials have described as a holistic review. A Defense Department IG report recommends the civilian employee be reinstated with backpay. Maj. Gen. Lorna Mahlock now leads a force she said is "competing daily against a threat that is very real, but which few can comprehend, quantify or see.” The 31-year-old Army veteran from Colorado Springs, Colo., had faced a possible life sentence By Colleen Slevin
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