A Cyber Special Program Office

<p>Department of Defense (DOD) standard 8320.02 establishes the need for all subordinate organizations to share information through metadata tagging of information. The United States Air Force's recent consolidation of cyber capabilities under the 24th Numbered Air Force formerly AFCYBER under the Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) major command and the DOD's proposed United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) arrange the strategic levels of cyber capabilities. However to meet DOD Standard 8320.02 on the operational and tactical levels Air Force leaders need to establish a special program office (SPO) or cyber SPO which collectively manages all cyber and communications assets providing standardized integrated systems with consolidated cradle-to-grave asset and information management similar to existing aircraft and space platform SPOs. This research paper conceptually envisions a proposed framework for how a cyber SPO would look function and its initial focus items and its efforts to meet DOD Standard 8320.02 for information sharing. Using the proposed cyber SPO solutions and resulting efforts to meet the 8320.02 standard the Air Force has the opportunity to save a minimum of 21.8 million dollars per year in network costs thousands of man hours in reduced information processing times and improving workflow processes across the Air Force. Applied across the DOD's total population there is a potential opportunity for saving an additional 128 million dollars (approximate) in network costs utilizing the same cyber SPO concepts with even greater work force man-hour savings.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p><br>