The dramatic announcement was made by Vice President Mike Pence talking at a Department of Homeland Security convention yesterday in New York.
Mr Pence mentioned: “The American people demand and deserve the strongest possible defence and we will give it to them.”
He attacked the file of the earlier administration claiming Trump had “inherited” a “cyber crisis” from Mr Obama.
He argued: “The final administration too typically selected silence and paralysis over power and motion.
“Make no mistake about it, those days are over.”
Mr Pence mentioned the White House has taken “unprecedented” motion to safeguard US elections following allegations of Russian interference in 2016.
He added: “It considerations us many states nonetheless don’t have concrete plans to improve their election programs.”
Mr Pence additionally introduced the US Cyber Command could be boosted to a stand-alone fight command, as an indication of its rising significance.
The occasion was later addressed by Department for Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen.
Ms Nielsen warned overseas powers pondering of interfering in US elections: “The United States will not tolerate your interference.
“You will be exposed. And, you will pay a high price.”
She famous: “Our digital lives are now in danger every single day.”
There are longstanding allegations that Russia intervened within the 2016 US Presidential Election to assist Trump.
In January 2017 a joint report produced by the CIA, FBI and different safety companies concluded that Russian motion forward of the 2016 election was designed to assist Trump and hurt Hillary Clinton.
However, Trump has repeatedly denounced the official investigation, led by particular prosecutor Robert Mueller, as a “witch hunt”.