According to Wired, the Airforce has stopped work on "Cyber Command" just prior to being declared operational. The new command was controversial, since it was a unilateral move by the Airforce to snap cyberspace into their portfolio.
From Wired's defense blog:
The Air Force is about to suspend its controversial effort to reorganize its forces to "dominate" cyberspace. The provisional, 8,000-man Cyber Command has been ordered to stop all activities, just weeks before it was supposed to be declared operational.
"Transfers of manpower and resources, including activation and reassignment of units, shall be halted," according to an internal e-mail obtained by Nextgov's Bob Brewin -- and confirmed by Air Force sources. Instead, the Air Force's new leadership -- including incoming Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz -- will be given time to rethink how big the command will be, and what exactly it will do. [From Wired.com: Airforce Suspends Controversial Cyber Command]
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