U.S. Naval Information Forces

The Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) is an Echelon III command under US Fleet Forces Command, (USFLTFORCOM). It is the Type Command (TYCOM) for meteorology and oceanography, cryptology/SIGINT, cyber, electronic warfare, information operations, intelligence, networks, and space disciplines. Like other TYCOMs, this is the manpower, training, modernization, and maintenance component for these disciplines. NAVIFOR's mission is to support operational commanders ashore and afloat by providing combat-ready information warfare forces, which are forward deployable, fully trained, properly crewed, capably equipped, always ready, well maintained and combat sustainable.^[1]

Naval Information Forces Command
Active	October 1, 2014-current
Country	United States of America
Branch	United States Navy
Type	Type Command
Garrison/HQ	Suffolk, Virginia
Commanders
Current commander	VADM Michael Vernazza

On February 9, 2016, the command was renamed from Navy Information Dominance Forces (NAVIDFOR) to Naval Information Forces as part of the alignment of the Information Dominance Corps under its new name, the Information Warfare Community.

List of commanders

No.	Commander		Term
	Portrait	Name	Took office	Left office	Term length
Commander, Navy Information Dominance Forces (COMNAVIDFOR)
1		Rear Admiral (lower half) Diane E.H. Webber	October 1, 2014	October 3, 2014	2 days
2		Rear Admiral Matthew J. Kohler	October 3, 2014[2]	February 9, 2016	1 year, 129 days
Commander, Naval Information Forces (COMNAVIFOR)
2		Vice Admiral Matthew J. Kohler	February 9, 2016	June 15, 2018	2 years, 126 days
3		Vice Admiral Brian B. Brown	June 15, 2018	May 7, 2021	2 years, 326 days
4		Vice Admiral Kelly A. Aeschbach	May 7, 2021	July 26, 2024	3 years, 80 days
5		Vice Admiral Michael J. Vernazza	July 26, 2024	Incumbent	146 days

See also

• Fleet Cyber Command/Tenth Fleet
• U.S. Cyber Command
• U.S. Navy Cyber Forces – former type command, established in January 2010 and absorbed into NAVIFOR on 1 October 2014
• Information Warfare Community (formerly Information Dominance Corps) – advisory corps of the United States Navy
• Navy Information Operations Command, Hawaii – administrative subordinate command of NAVIFOR
• Naval Security Group – formerly tasked with intelligence gathering and denial of intelligence to adversaries

References

1. "Navy Establishes Information Dominance Forces". U.S. Navy. Retrieved 2014-12-07.
2. Navy Cyber Forces (1 October 2014). "Navy Information Dominance Forces stand up". Dvidshub.net. Retrieved 8 May 2021.

External links

• Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR)
• NAVIDFOR on IDC Self Synchronization