They often include cyber operations, electronic warfare and influence campaigns. Multiple U.S. spy agencies stood up crisis action teams that provided intelligence to Special Operations Command and Southern Command throughout the operations, a U.S. official with knowledge of the matter previously told Nextgov/FCW. The development of the cell helps highlight a broader shift toward integrating cyber and other non-kinetic tools into U.S. military operations. Lt. Gen. William Hartman, acting director of Cyber Command and the NSA, and Katie Sutton, the Pentagon’s cyber policy chief, also testified, describing how the cell would operate alongside efforts to increase the number of U.S. cyber warriors under a new Cyber Command structure announced last November. The revised Cyber Command model — dubbed “Cyber Command 2.0” — is aimed at fixing longstanding problems hiring and keeping skilled military cyber specialists, though it represents a scaled-back version of a broader restructuring effort initially planned for the digital combatant command.