Air Force presses forward with new cyber weapons platform

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Amber Corrin

Staff Sgt. Alex Garviria, 721st Communication Squadron senior systems controller, and 2nd Lt. Rachel James, 721st CS crew commander, work in the Global Strategic Warning and Space Surveillance System Center at Cheyenne Mountain Air Force Station, Colo., Sept. 2, 2014. The 721st CS provides continuous monitoring of the strategic missile warning systems to ensure a constant dataflow of key information to North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), U.S. Northern Command, U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Space Command, Secretary of Defense, President of the United States, strategic, and theater commanders. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Krystal Ardrey)

The Air Force announced in a Feb. 26 release that its Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter (CVA/H) cyber weapon platform now is at full operational capacity — the second cyber weapon system to go online in just over a month.

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