https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/18/trump-approves-obama-era-plan-for-a-more-independent-us-cyber-command/ >President Trump has given the go-ahead for a plan dating from the Obama administration to elevate US Cyber Command to the level of Unified Combatant Command, giving it more operational independence from the National Security Agency. The statement also raised the possibility of splitting off CyberCom from the NSA entirely. >Both actions were recommended by former former Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter last year, as he told TechCrunch at the time.