{"id":34750,"date":"2019-08-21T21:07:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T21:07:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/08\/21\/new-army-units-worth-the-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:17:41","slug":"new-army-units-worth-the-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2019\/08\/21\/new-army-units-worth-the-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"New Army units worth the risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After a Government Accountability Office report outlined deficiencies in manning new units for multidomain operations, Army cyber leaders pushed back on the report\u2019s characterizations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe will not get there overnight. It is not perfect and I\u2019m okay with that because right now that gives me a lot of flexibility,\u201d Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, commander of Army Cyber Command, said Aug. 20 at TechNet Augusta. He did not directly address the report by name. \u201cWe have commanders out there who are willing to accept less than the perfect solution to get the capabilities out there to start building reps and start getting after it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The GAO report suggested that understaffing could lead to oversight problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\t