美国防信息服务局在弗吉利亚州的阿林顿正式成立了计算机网络防御中心的联合特遣部队.该机构将监督国防部的计算活动的安全.在全球网络运作安全中心的剪彩仪式上,官员们指出新的办公室实际上在1998年的12月份就在运作了,而直到1999年的6月底,已经证明了充分的作战能力. The United States Defense Information Service formally established the Joint Task Force on Cyber ​​Defense Centers in Arlington, Virginia, to oversee the computing activities of the Department of Defense. At the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Global Cyber ​​Operations Security Center, Officials pointed out that the new office was in fact operational in December 1998 and that by the end of June 1999, sufficient combat capability had been demonstrated.