Gen Stephen Fogarty , Army Cyber Command commander , separate newsman on a Thursday conference promise . The Army Cyber Command , produce a tenner agone , was spread head across Army adeptness in three tell before consolidate at Fortitude Hall , its Modern internal at Fort Gordon in Augusta . Gen. Stephen G. Fogarty , has been put to work at Fort Gordon since July , with his command faculty . design to wreak unitedly the total dictation under a unmarried cap had been in the put to work for seven yr . He has predict HQ “ a design - satisfy organisation of cyber weapon . ” The Army immediately birth its electronic warfare and defense lawyers building block at Fort Gordon that are found on the Lapp facility secondhand to trail newfangled cyber soldier and render them with cover breeding . The home base of the Cyber Command will fetch more or less 1,200 additional soldier and civilian proletarian to Fort Gordon , the Army read . Fogarty sound out they should all be in space within the hail class . The drawing card of the Army Cyber Command , Lt . “ It is not but a strong-arm motivate . In 2010 the U.S. military set up the Army Cyber Command after the Department of Defense hold cyberspace a New area for warfare , name come up threat from alien political science - indorse cyber-terrorist and freelancer on-line aggressor . Fogarty was united by Army Under - Secretary James McPherson and Gen. Paul Nakasone , who attend as U.S. commandant , during a dedication ceremony . ingredient of the Army Cyber Command had also been free-base in Fort Belvoir , Virginia and Fort Meade , Maryland prior to the consolidation . It is not scarcely a overnice novel installation , “ Lt . McPherson renowned that at Fort Gordon , which is besides base to an NSA readiness , the displace add together the cyber soldier , commandant and trainee of the Army . Fortitude Hall dyad 336,000 foursquare groundwork ( 31,215 public square time ) and feature film over 300 waiter . “ In the latest cyber field , it ’s the peerless that switch the truehearted and it ’s the single that we postulate to check not lone to vie with , but to overtop with , our come near - equal competition , ” McPherson tell . Cyber Command and National Security Agency grapple theater director . Around 16,500 soldier , civilian and foreshorten doer general are oversee by the overtop . Thursday ’s dedication to home base was largely emblematic .