USAF plans to move Cyber Command, being developed now within 8th Air Force, “sometime soon” into major command status, Gen. Michael Moseley, Chief of Staff, said Wednesday in testimony before the Senate Appropriations defense subcommittee. Moseley predicted a public announcement in late summer or early fall.
U.S. Southern Command recently announced its first lethal strike on a suspected narco-trafficking vessel in two months, and the first under a newly formed permanent counter-cartel task force. The U.S. is also reportedly planning to transfer MQ-9 drones to Colombia to bolster its counter-cartel efforts.