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Friday, January 31, 2014

US government names new head of NSA and US Cyber Command

Vice Admiral Michael RogersThe Secretary of Defense has appointed new leadership for the NSA, the Central Security Service, and the US Cyber Command, with Vice Admiral Michael Rogers as the new boss and Richard Ledgett as his civilian deputy.

Vice Admiral Rogers is currently head of the US Navy's 10th Fleet, which in the Second World War handled anti-submarine operations before being shut down. It was reactivated in 2010 to deal with the Navy's cryptography and cyber warfare operations.

Rogers, a Chicago native, joined the Navy in 1981. Five years later he was seconded to cryptographic operations and has worked in communications and online warfare ever since, in some cases carrying out "direct support missions" from ships and submarines in the Persian Gulf and Mediterranean.

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