{"id":18492,"date":"2017-10-11T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T17:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2017\/10\/11\/cyber-command-stands-up-planning-cells-at-combatant-commands\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:07:10","slug":"cyber-command-stands-up-planning-cells-at-combatant-commands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/show-reporter\/ausa\/2017\/10\/11\/cyber-command-stands-up-planning-cells-at-combatant-commands\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Command stands up planning cells at combatant commands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cyber Command has stood up forward-deployed planning cells within the combatant command staffs to help better coordinate offensive and defensive cyber effects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The entities, called Cyber Operations-Integrated Planning Elements, or CO-IPE, are weeks-old. They will do all the planning for Department of Defense Information Network operations, defensive cyber operations, internal defensive measures and offensive cyber operations, said Army. Col. Paul Craft, the director of operations J3 at Joint Force Headquarters-DoDIN, who spoke Tuesday during a presentation at the Cyber Pavilion of the annual Association of the U.S. Army conference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are planners that are now sitting in the combatant commands. This has never happened before. This is brand new stuff,\u201d Craft said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each head of their respective service cyber component command \u2014 Army Cyber Command, Fleet Cyber Command, Marine Corps Forces Cyberspace Command and Air Forces Cyber \u2014 also serves as a head of the cyber division of Joint Force Headquarters. These divisions are responsible for providing effects to specific combatant commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\t