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Command Security company history timeline

1980

He had previously owned half of the company. It was incorporated under New York law on May 9, 1980.

1987

1987: Two Connecticut security firms are acquired.

1990

Command went public in 1990, when revenues were $14.8 million.

1990: Command goes public, offers back-office services to other companies.

1991

Revenues were about $38 million in 1991, when Command Security was the 21st largest security company in the United States, accounting to the Security Letter.

1992

In April 1992, Command merged its New York City security operations with that of its back-office client, Madison Detective Bureau Inc.

Action Protective Systems, a New York area firm, was acquired from its French parent ECCO Securité in September 1992.

1993

Command acquired Madison in November 1993 for $2.2 million in canceled and assumed debt.

1994

Command expanded its guard business by acquiring Miami's General Security Corp. in October 1994.

Command was taking in over $65 million a year by 1994.

1995

United Security Group Inc., a New York company with annual revenues of $25 million, was acquired on February 24, 1995, for $4 million in cash and $1 million in assumed debt.

Goldsborough resigned as president and CEO of Command in May 1995.

By 1995, DoD leaders publicly acknowledged that United States military networks were vulnerable to remote attacks.

1996

Revenue (apart from service company revenue) for fiscal 1996 was $55 million.

1998

The ATM business was begun in 1998; Command signed up 290 independent affiliates to create national coverage.

2001

Security screening at the nation's airports was federalized following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States.

In October 2001, Aviation Safeguards took over screening at the Philadelphia airport from Argenbright Security Inc., which was facing federal charges over using unqualified personnel.

2009

Both JFCC–NW and JTF–GNO performed their functions under USSTRATCOM until Secretary of Defense Gates directed the reorganization of DoD’s cyber forces with his June 2009 memo.

The entities created in 2009 were:

2010

The two task forces soon merged, becoming United States Cyber Command, on 21 May 2010.

The new command achieved Initial Operating Capability (IOC) on 21 May 2010.

2012

The Cyber Mission Force (CMF), authorized in 2012, originally consisted of 133 teams, with a total of almost 6,200 military and civilian personnel.

2014

General Alexander retired in 2014, and Admiral Michael Rogers (USN) succeeded him, taking command of USCYBERCOM and NSA/CSS. ADM Rogers saw the CMF through its evolution as it developed the capacity and structure to fulfill its mission.

2016

All 133 teams of the CMF achieved IOC in 2016, the threshold capacity whereby the units could execute their fundamental missions.

The JFHQ–DoDIN commander is dual–hatted as the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). USCYBERCOM added JTF–Ares to combat terrorist threats in 2016.

2018

The USCYBERCOM Vision statement, approved in March 2018, explained that

The CMF reached Full Operational Capability (FOC) in 2018, when all CMF units had reached their projected full strength.

2019

24th Air Force (merged with 25th Air Force to become 16th Air Forces Cyber (AFCYBER) as of 11 October 2019)

2020

United States Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), the nation’s unified combatant command for the cyberspace domain, turned ten years old in 2020.

The Group’s efforts informed an even larger effort – the Election Security Group (ESG) – to defend the 2020 election.

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