VCJCS Mulls Newest Domain: Electromagnetic Spectrum

VCJCS Mulls Newest Domain: Electromagnetic Spectrum
VCJCS Mulls Newest Domain: Electromagnetic Spectrum

WASHINGTON: The Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is taking a “very serious” look at to making the electromagnetic spectrum a formal “domain” of military operations, a top aide to the Pentagon’s chief information officer told me this morning. The move would elevate the ethereal realm of radio waves and radar to the same…

DoD CIO Says Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain

DoD CIO Says Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain
DoD CIO Says Spectrum May Become Warfighting Domain

WASHINGTON: Pentagon officials are drafting new policy that would officially recognize the electromagnetic spectrum as a “domain” of warfare, joining land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace, Breaking Defense has learned. The designation would mark the biggest shift in Defense Department doctrine since cyberspace became a domain in 2006. With jamming, spoofing, radio, and radar all covered under…

Thin Clients & Persistent Threats: Coping With The New Cyber Dangers

Thin Clients & Persistent Threats: Coping With The New Cyber Dangers
Thin Clients & Persistent Threats: Coping With The New Cyber Dangers

GEORGETOWN: Four days after Defense Secretary Ash Carter launched the Pentagon’s new cyber strategy, experts and officials offered a grim picture of the global threat. The threat is metastasizing in ways that will require new kinds of defenses — even while many US companies and government agencies lag on basic cybersecurity measures. “The Chinese in particular are…

DISA Shifts From Gatekeeper To Guardian

DISA Shifts From Gatekeeper To Guardian
DISA Shifts From Gatekeeper To Guardian

The clouds, they are a-changin’. The Defense Information Systems Agency may have lost its status — always controversial and contested — as gatekeeper between the rest of the Defense Department and commercial providers of cloud computing. But Pentagon CIO Terry Halvorsen‘s decision to let other defense entities acquire cloud services on their own still leaves…