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Drones aren’t decisive, said the head of Army Cyber Command, without a command system that can rapidly pull together all the data and order a strike before the enemy disappears again.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Cyber Pivots To Pacific: Fogarty](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/09/Fortitude-Hall-200903-A-FX856-1003-225x150.jpg)
“Wherever [Army forces] are deployed, particularly those in Europe and the Pacific, they’re under just constant, constant assault,” Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, chief of Army Cyber Command, says.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Wrestles With ‘Information Advantage’](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/08/5649286-225x150.jpg)
A host of high-tech specialties will have to work together, Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty said, so “stop fighting and start figuring out how to integrate the capability.”
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Unveils Hacker HQ For Offensive Cyber, Info War](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2020/09/Fortitude-Hall-200903-A-FX856-1003-225x150.jpg)
The new high-tech operations center at Fort Gordon lets Army Cyber Command spend less time defending US networks and more time attacking adversaries.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![‘The Golden 5 Minutes’: The Need For Speed In Information War](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2019/04/Medevac-in-Iraq-UH-60-225x150.jpg)
The Army wants to overhaul its Cyber Command to stamp out online disinformation before it goes viral. But there are risks.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army To Build New Info War Force – Fast](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/07/Fogarty-LTG-Army-CYBER-COE-Stephen-225x150.jpg)
The Army is already struggling to man its new cyber units — and now it wants to expand their ranks and responsibilities for a new mission.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Cyber Force Fights Training Shortfalls: NSA, IONs, & RIOT](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/09/Cyber-protection-team-exercise-USAF-CPT-170502-F-SH665-014-225x150.jpg)
CAPITOL HILL: The military’s new cyberspace force is working to overcome recruiting and retention shortfalls, training bottlenecks, and its dependence on the National Security Agency, officials told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday. These devils in the details are an inevitable part of standing up a new kind of force for a new kind of…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Army Boosts Electronic Warfare Numbers, Training, Role](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/01/Milley-CSA-GEN-Mark-@-NTC-w-cyber-soldiers-225x150.jpg)
AUSA: The Army is giving its electronic warfare force more troops, more training, and a more prominent role in combat headquarters, senior officers said here Thursday, pushing back on criticisms that the service neglects EW even as Russia and China pull ahead. The number of EW troops has increased from 813 (both officers and enlisted)…
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This internal budget battle in the Army could cede the actual battlefield to high-powered Russian and Chinese jammers, electronic warfare advocates fear, with the same lethal consequences for US troops that Ukrainian forces have suffered since 2014.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.![Busting The Green Door: Army SIGINT Refocuses On Russia & China](https://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/07/Army-Prophet-SIGINT-x2-225x150.jpg)
Over 17 years of fighting terrorists and insurgents, “our SIGINT forces mastered the art and science of identifying and tracking individual threats with pinpoint precision,” Lt. Gen. Berrier said. “We now face a significant challenge on a much larger scale.”
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ARLINGTON: Pop culture pictures hackers in clean, air-conditioned rooms, working global network magic from a desk. For the Army, though, that’s not enough. If American troops are to prevail against inventive foes in high-tech, close-quarters fights, the hacker elite have to get their boots muddy with the regular grunts. So now the Army’s sending cyber soldiers to…
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ARLINGTON: “We needed to learn to speak infantry,” said Col. William Hartman, commander of the Army’s first offensive cyber operations brigade. That’s not easy. When one of Hartman’s teams joined a brigade of the 25th Infantry Division for an exercise this spring, the colonel recounted, the 25th’s commanding general told Hartman that his cyber operators…
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