Cyber Command Director Rudd Commissions MITRE Review of Organization and Internal Reform Study

Army Gen. Joshua Rudd, who assumed dual command of Cyber Command and the NSA in March, commissioned MITRE to conduct a wide-ranging organizational review, according to three people familiar with the matter cited by The Record 12. The evaluation's scope remains undefined but will most likely focus on the command's acquisition model and potentially on the "service like authorities" Congress granted for managing personnel outside an independent military branch, a command official told The Record 1. MITRE's findings are expected to feed into Rudd's own 90-day review of the command, due to complete next month 12. In a parallel internal effort, Rudd convened senior leaders with special operations backgrounds to surface "quick wins"; an anonymous command official told The Record that exercise "was kind of a big nothingburger" 1.