Defense Secretary Robert Gates quietly agreed late last year to transfer responsibility for the Defense Department's information network to U.S. Cyber Command, but reversed that decision in the twilight of his tenure, a new memo reveals. Gates' memo on the disestablishment of the Pentagon's Networks and Information Integration (NII) office, issued earlier this week, describes DOD's plans for shuttering the office following months of uncertainty about how the department would proceed. Inside the Pentagon reviewed a copy of the...
