Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published September 12, 2025
The Trump administration has abandoned any intention of breaking up the joint leadership of U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, bowing to the reality of the enormous complexity of the task, according to two people and one current U.S. official familiar with the matter.
The decision to maintain the “dual-hat” leadership for the cyberwarfare and electronic espionage forces appears to have been made without any official White House documentation, such as a presidential memo, these people said. Instead, senior administration officials have quietly accepted that splitting the 15-year-old arrangement would prove too lengthy and arduous while they pursue President Donald Trump’s other national security priorities.