To ‘harmonize’ better: Air Force developing new defensive cyber campaign plan
The plan will synchronize defensive cyber activities and focus especially on critical infrastructure, an Air Force official said.
The plan will synchronize defensive cyber activities and focus especially on critical infrastructure, an Air Force official said.
The Air Force has planned to install Defensive Cyberspace Systems to replace the Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter system and the Operations Platform Fly Away Kits, Gen. Thomas Hensley said.
“What I tell people is we're not going to mass [hire] our way out of this. We're not going to be able to hire more people to monitor all the sensors, and so we've got to be smarter with the technology that we have,” Lt. Gen. Thomas Hensley, commander of the 16th Air Force, told Breaking Defense.
The investment is a sign of the Air Force’s commitment to fighting war effectively across all domains, including cyber and its electronic warfare cousin.
"Our ability to get out from underneath our infrastructure is probably our biggest challenge," Lt. Gen. Tim Haugh, head of 16th Air Force, says.
"There are a lot of autonomous systems in DoD today. There are very few, and I would say really no significant, AI enabled autonomous systems," says Shanahan, who is trying to change that.
The RFI is one of the first industry solicitations since the Air Force announced in April 2019 an overhaul of its EW operations to counter Russian and Chinese advances, and to enable multi-domain operations.