The US needs to accept that the future of combat will be in the digital sphere the same way it foresaw the future of combat-by-air in 1947 and created the Air Force. The US needs a separate cyber force that’s able to rapidly adjust to the ever-changing capabilities of cyber attackers to protect the safety of government and private infrastructure. This is a now-or-never moment.
The US has a history of using crises to gin up public support for new national security agencies. Once implemented, however, they often lead to failures like the Dept. of Homeland Security's highly-despised TSA airport security. Instead of repeating its past of throwing money at contractors, the government should reconfigure its current defense bodies to combat cyber threats.