Post by Sailor on Jan 31, 2014 3:03:55 GMT -8
N.S.A. Choice Is Navy Expert on Cyberwar
WASHINGTON — In nominating Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the new director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, President Obama chose a recognized expert in the new art of designing cyberweapons, but someone with no public track record in addressing the kinds of privacy concerns that have put the agency under a harsh spotlight.
Mr. Obama’s decision to pick a military officer, rather than a civilian versed in civil liberties issues, was made weeks ago, when he rejected his own advisory panel’s recommendation that the N.S.A. and the United States Cyber Command have separate leaders. By law the command, the Pentagon’s four-year-old cyberwarfare organization, must be headed by a military officer.
The result is that Admiral Rogers, now the head of Fleet Cyber Command, the Navy’s fast-growing cyberunit, will find himself in the public cross hairs in a way he has never been during a 33-year military career. Starting with his confirmation hearings, expected to begin as soon as next month, the admiral will be pressed on how he would carry out a series of changes that Mr. Obama announced two weeks ago.
www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/world/vice-admiral-to-be-named-nsa-director.html?src=twr&_r=0
Mike Rogers was a LTJG serving in USS Caron when I reported aboard. He was serving as Weapons Officer in the Combat Systems Department which means he was in charge of the gunnery, ASW rocket and torpedo systems at one point and the electronic systems repair and maintenance division at another. He also stood watches as Tactical Action Officer in CIC and as Officer of the Deck Underway (conned the ship) in rotation with other qualified officers.
He was a sharp young man and a damned good officer back then. I lost track of him after he left Caron though I heard he went into my field of Cryptology.
Unless he has changed mardedly I think the NSA is in good hands.
WASHINGTON — In nominating Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers as the new director of the National Security Agency on Thursday, President Obama chose a recognized expert in the new art of designing cyberweapons, but someone with no public track record in addressing the kinds of privacy concerns that have put the agency under a harsh spotlight.
Mr. Obama’s decision to pick a military officer, rather than a civilian versed in civil liberties issues, was made weeks ago, when he rejected his own advisory panel’s recommendation that the N.S.A. and the United States Cyber Command have separate leaders. By law the command, the Pentagon’s four-year-old cyberwarfare organization, must be headed by a military officer.
The result is that Admiral Rogers, now the head of Fleet Cyber Command, the Navy’s fast-growing cyberunit, will find himself in the public cross hairs in a way he has never been during a 33-year military career. Starting with his confirmation hearings, expected to begin as soon as next month, the admiral will be pressed on how he would carry out a series of changes that Mr. Obama announced two weeks ago.
www.nytimes.com/2014/01/31/world/vice-admiral-to-be-named-nsa-director.html?src=twr&_r=0
Mike Rogers was a LTJG serving in USS Caron when I reported aboard. He was serving as Weapons Officer in the Combat Systems Department which means he was in charge of the gunnery, ASW rocket and torpedo systems at one point and the electronic systems repair and maintenance division at another. He also stood watches as Tactical Action Officer in CIC and as Officer of the Deck Underway (conned the ship) in rotation with other qualified officers.
He was a sharp young man and a damned good officer back then. I lost track of him after he left Caron though I heard he went into my field of Cryptology.
Unless he has changed mardedly I think the NSA is in good hands.
