Nominee for new Pentagon cyber leader not expected until later this year

The Pentagon won't nominate someone to fill a new, congressionally mandated cyber adviser post until near the end of 2023, a senior defense official said Thursday. [The Record reported](https://therecord.media/dod-cyber-policy-leader-rand-study) on Wednesday that the Defense Department was hiring the RAND Corporation to examine how to establish a new assistant secretary of Defense for cyber policy, which

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