Commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command
Commander, U.S. 10th Fleet
Vice Adm. Rogers, a native of
Chicago, attended Auburn University
graduating in 1981, and receiving
his commission via the Naval Reserve
Officers Training Corps.
Originally a surface warfare
officer, he first served as combat
information center officer and
anti-submarine warfare officer in
USS
Caron (DD 970) from 1982
to1985, participating in operations
off Grenada, Beirut and El Salvador,
including combat naval gunfire
support. Duty on the staff of the
Naval Military Personnel Command in
Washington, D.C. followed until
1986.
Subsequently designated a
cryptologist (now information
warfare), he reported to Naval
Communication Station, Rota, Spain,
in 1987, serving as electronic
warfare officer and direct support
officer aboard ships and submarines
in the Mediterranean and Persian
Gulf, and participating in the
initial
Earnest Will reflagged
tanker escorts during the Iran-Iraq
war. He then served, from 1990 to
1993, on the staffs of Commander in
Chief, U.S. Atlantic Command and
Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic
Fleet as head of the Cryptologic
Plans, Policy, Programs and
Requirements branch.
He next served as the staff
cryptologist for Commander, Carrier
Group Two/John
F. Kennedy Carrier Strike Group,
conducting operations in the Baltic
and as Combined Joint Task Force 120
for Operation
Support Democracy
(Haiti). He became the cryptologic
junior officer detailer at the
Bureau of Personnel in Washington,
D.C., in 1995 and subsequently
served as aide and executive
assistant (EA) to Commander, Naval
Security Group Command from 1997 to
1998 at Fort Meade, Md. Duty as
commanding officer, Naval Security
Group Activity Winter Harbor, Maine,
followed in 1998.
In 2000, he assumed the duties as
fleet information operations (IO)
officer and fleet cryptologist on
the staff of Commander, U.S. Sixth
Fleet, embarked in USS
LaSalle (AGF 3) in
Gaeta, Italy. The tour included
contingency support to U.S. and
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
forces in the Balkans as well as
Maritime Interdiction Operations in
support of Operation
Enduring Freedom. He
reported to the Joint Staff in 2003,
and served as head of the Computer
Network Attack/Defense Branch, IO
division chief, EA to the J3, EA to
two directors of the Joint Staff and
special assistant to chairman of
Joint Chiefs of Staff/director,
chairman’s action group.
He next assumed duty as the director
for Intelligence (J2), U.S. Pacific
Command in 2007. Duty as the
Joint Chiefs of Staff director for
Intelligence followed in September
2009. He assumed his current duties
as commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber
Command/commander, U.S. 10th Fleet,
in September 2011.
Updated: 13 October 2011
U.S. Fleet Cyber
Command/U.S. 10th Fleet
Holds Change of Command
From U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet Public Affairs
BALTIMORE (NNS) -- U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S.10th Fleet held a change of command ceremony at Fort McHenry National Monument and Shrine Sept. 30.
Vice Adm. Michael S. Rogers relieved Vice Adm. Bernard J. "Barry" McCullough III, as commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and U.S. 10th Fleet.
The ceremony, presided over by Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, showcased the numerous accomplishments of the command and paid tribute to the individuals who have maintained the organization's success during the past two years.
Greenert said McCullough's experience and operational expertise made him the perfect candidate to lead the Navy's newest echelon II command and newest numbered fleet and raise cyber warfare to the forefront of the Navy's 21st century arsenal.
"[Cyber warfare is] a new challenge. The next major conflict, we are absolutely convinced, will start virtually. It won't be a kinetic strike. The first strike will be somebody trying to paralyze information, weapons, sensors or our command and control systems. We have got to be able to command and control our command and control, and that's what Barry has gotten started with these great people out here at Fleet Cyber Command," Greenert said. "This command is our defense and our offense. Their mission is to operationalize cyber. That's why we called it Tenth Fleet. That is what we asked Barry to do in this command and he has done it brilliantly."
Greenert named McCullough's numerous accomplishments during his address, citing his drive for excellence.
"If you know Barry McCullough, you know he likes to take charge and set the high bar of excellence. He has done it his entire career. Who else could lead Fleet Cyber Command? We needed someone who was ready to go forward take on a new command and do it right," Greenert said. "And as we like to say, mission complete."
Since taking the helm of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and U.S. 10th Fleet as their first commander in June 2010, one of McCullough's highest priorities has been the development of cyber situational awareness similar to the common operational picture used for air, surface and undersea.
During his tenure, he oversaw the activation of the 10th Fleet Maritime Operations Center (MOC) that for the first time consolidated operational information across the cyber, cryptologic, electronic warfare, information operations and space lines of operation. Through aggressive pursuit of technical and data feed options, the MOC provides immediate situational awareness of network health, defensive actions, intelligence capability status and global fleet operations.
"In two years what he has done is marvelous. It looks exactly like the Blue Ridge that I commanded back in 2006. He has turned his maritime operations center to look exactly like that which we have in our maritime command centers," Greenert said.
Providing environmental element awareness of network health, defensive actions, intelligence capability status and global Fleet operations kept McCullough's team focused to impede the millions of attempts made daily to penetrate network systems afloat and ashore.
"We have to be able to have situational awareness of these assaults in real time to prevent the exfiltration of our intellectual capital that is expensive, technically challenging to create and engineer, and requires a large amount of time, that one resource that can never be replaced, to develop," said McCullough. "This work is long and hard and crosses a myriad of statutes, regulations, directives, and lines of authority. That said it must be pursued."
McCullough also developed and executed a Unified Cryptologic Operations Strategy that significantly enhanced the access for fleet units to national information databases and the cloud computing environment. This effort dramatically evolved how Navy cryptologic information is shared, the coordination processes and capabilities analysts ashore and afloat use, and the speed in which tactically relevant information is provided to operational decision makers. These actions revolutionized cyber-warfighting tactics, techniques and procedures.
McCullough, who retired from active duty Oct. 1, expressed at the ceremony great reverence to the men and women at 10th Fleet who worked diligently to set the operational focus for the Navy's new cyber domain.
"The efforts of the Sailors at Fleet Cyber Command and in our subordinate command structure have put the Navy well in the vanguard of this huge under taking, setting an example for all who work and operate in this new domain," said McCullough. "I can never thank them enough for their significant effort and accomplishments of the last 20 months."
At the heart of the ceremony, the formal reading of the official orders brought Rogers to the front where he expressed his admiration and appreciation for McCullough's numerous accomplishments.
"We live in challenging times that will call for the best in all of us. And there is no doubt based on what I have seen and what Vice Adm. McCullough has done in the last two years, we will meet that challenge. Adm. McCullough, I thank you for what you have done, not just for the last two years but over the course of your career," Rogers said.
In his speech, Rogers said that it is a privilege to take command from a superb leader and pledged to keep 10th Fleet focused on future challenges and opportunities.
"You've heard Vice Adm. McCullough and the CNO outline the challenges that face us today. For some it might be daunting and there are many challenges ahead of us. But I would tell you in my experience that where there is challenge, there is opportunity. And we are going to exploit that opportunity," Rogers said.
Rogers, who previously served as Joint Chiefs of Staff director for Intelligence, said the mission of 10th Fleet is to operationalize the cyber, networks, electronic warfare, information operations and space domains to ensure they Navy maintains its operational advantage.
"Our job is to maintain dominance in those areas at the time and place of our choosing and to forestall others ability to do the same, Rogers said. "I am confident in our ability to do that, and I look forward to the challenges ahead."
In closing, Rogers spoke directly to the men and women of 10th Fleet.
"I promise you my best. You deserve nothing less, and I promise I will be there for you. I ask the same of each of you and I thank you in advance for that hard work and I also thank you for the hard work that has brought us to where we are today.
U.S. 10th Fleet serves as the numbered fleet for Fleet Cyber Command and exercises operational control of assigned naval forces. The command coordinates with other naval, coalition and joint task forces to execute the full spectrum of cyber, electronic warfare, information operations and signal intelligence capabilities and missions across the cyber, electromagnetic and space domains.
