'It’s going to be huge': Cyber Command gains new authorities to hire & buy - Breaking Defense...

The 13-year-old US Cyber Command had grown dramatically in size, power and bureaucratic heft since its creation in 2010. Its most recent expansion came this week, with the beginning of a new federal fiscal year Oct. 1, when new fiscal and hiring authorities granted by the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act came into effect.
“This will be the first year that we execute those new authorities,” CYBERCOM executive director Holly Baroody told a Billington webinar Tuesday. “We have a team in our J-8 [planning staff] who focuses on budget, [and] every day they are working [on this], not only within their team, but across all of the services, to make sure that we have all the right processes in place, the right systems in place, the right training… to take advantage of the authorities and execute them well.”