Key combatant commands across the U.S. military were not giving enough support or personnel to their cyber operations, which affected their ability to “effectively plan and integrate cyberspace” into the country’s defensive and offensive operations, a previously classified assessment obtained Friday by the Hearst National Investigative Unit shows.The document, dated Dec. 8, 2014, but just released Friday in response to a nearly four-year old public records request filed by this reporter in 2014, is heavily redacted but makes clear failures in sharing mission-critical information still existed more than a decade after post-9/11 reforms were implemented across the government. The 64-page Department of Defense Inspector General report said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which advise the president, “acknowledged that Combatant Commands were not effectively communicating with each other.” Further, the report concluded that the lack of information sharing “decreased” the ability of commanders who oversee the Pacific, Atlantic, and Cyberspace theaters of operation to “plan and prioritize cyberspace operations in a resource-constrained and rapidly evolving domain.”Reached late Friday afternoon, a public affairs officer at the Pentagon said she did not immediately know whether the “deficiencies” identified in the report had been fixed in the nearly four years since its publication, but would inquire.The release comes, coincidentally, the same week the National Investigative Unit, as part of an ongoing series into election security, asked the DHS Assistant Secretary for Cybersecurity in an interview at a secure cyber command center about another watchdog report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office that found the U.S. government had failed to implement 1,000 recommendations over the past several years to strengthen the country’s cyber defenses. Assistant Secretary Jeanette Manfra told Chief National Investigative Correspondent Mark Albert her agency does not agree with all of the recommendations but was working to implement or study others.