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Inside DISA’s new cybersecurity command center

Scott Airforce Base in Illinois is home to the Global Operations Command of the Defense Information Systems Agency, 164,000 square feet devoted to cybersecurity...

Federal News Network Staff

September 5, 2016 12:47 pm

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Scott Airforce Base in Illinois is home to a brand new building, 164,000 square feet devoted to cybersecurity. It’s the Global Operations Command of the Defense Information Systems Agency. Colonel Paul Craft, the commander, described the new center in an interview with Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu on Pentagon Solutions.

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