Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published October 31, 2025
The Army has set out on a pilot effort to bestow authorizing authority for cyber terrain to corps commanders, according to the service’s chief information officer.
Previously, much of this terrain and the capabilities were centrally managed, but that is not how the Army typically fights with physical platforms, where commanders control and own all the risk of their assets. Now, the service is trying to afford commanders the right level of risk to fight their fight.