Organizational structure for offensive cyber ops: who provides C2 for CMTs?

• A. Cyber Command
• B. Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber
• C. Cyber National Mission Force HQ
• D. Joint Cyber Center

Answer: (B)

Command and control of offensive cyber teams is organized at the theater level by the Joint Force Headquarters-Cyber. This unit serves as the operational command that plans, directs, and synchronizes cyber operations within a geographic combatant command’s area of responsibility, including tasking and deconflicting Cyber Mission Teams and integrating their actions with conventional forces and other cyber assets. While U.S. Cyber Command provides the overarching policy and national-level capabilities, the day-to-day C2 of CMTs in theater is carried out by the JFHQ-C, ensuring unity of effort and mission command. The Cyber National Mission Force Headquarters focuses on national missions and isn’t the primary theater-level C2 for fielded CMTs, and a Joint Cyber Center typically functions as a coordination and information-sharing hub rather than the authority to command and control those teams.