COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- The new leadership at the Air Force Academy is now responding to the blistering report this week by a civilian review committee on the sexual-assault scandal that 7NEWS first uncovered in an exclusive investigation.

The major issue in the report for the new academy leadership is victim confidentiality. The civilian review panel said victims have the right to confidentiality, but the new superintendent sees that as a possible stumbling block.

"If I have a system that has total confidentiality, I will know something happened but I won't know who, I won't know what, and I won't know the victim," said Lt. Gen. John Rosa, the academy's superintendent.

He said the academy operates on the same confidentiality process as the Air Force, and it shouldn't be too different.

However, Rosa said the school will follow the commission's recommendation that it reconsider the matter of confidentiality for sexual-assault victims.

"There may be a blend, and we're going to study that. That's what they recommended to us -- to go back and take a look at the way the other academies are doing it and to come up with a win-win situation," Rosa said.

Dozens of former female cadets told 7NEWS that they were punished and often ostracized by peers for reporting attacks.

An Air Force team from various commands has been assigned to spend weeks at the academy making sure the review committee's numerous recommendations are implemented.

Still, the commander agrees that it will be a long road to change.

"We still have a problem. We are in the early stages. We have acknowledged it. We have declared war on sexual harassment and sexual assault and to do that, we're developing a campaign plan just like we've developed in Afghanistan, just like we've developed in Iraq. We're taking this very, very seriously," Rosa said.

Dean of the faculty, Brig. Gen. David Wagge, will remain at the academy for now despite heavy criticism by the review panel. Wagge was targeted for conducting surveys that showed rampant sexual assaults but not doing anything about the results.