The NSA is building a $1.5 billion cyber security center in Utah. While this has potentially scary big brother implications, you can be sure other world powers have similar facilities already up and running (especially China). This center should help protect against that threat, while helping keep the U.S. at the forefront of cyber security technology. The battles of the 21st century are going to be fought indirectly via cyber strikes (really, this is already happening). This is an attempt to counter that threat. Now if they could just start planning a contingency for having our satellites taken out...