With President Barack Obama set to announce White House plans for protecting U.S. critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, comes news that the Pentagon has plans to create a new military command for cyberspace.

According to The New York Times,

"the new command would focus on organizing the various components and capabilities now scattered across the four armed services."

However, officials won't discuss potential offensive operations. Says Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman,

“We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain. We need to be able to operate within that domain just like on any battlefield, which includes protecting our freedom of movement and preserving our capability to perform in that environment.”

Obama will not be discussing the Pentagon's plans in today's cyber czar announcement.