New offensive cyber operations squad standing up for Air Force Reserve
As cyber veterans exit active duty, a new Reserve offensive squadron gives them a way to keep executing missions, an officer told Breaking Defense.
Leidos acquires Kudu Dynamics for $300M to enhance AI-driven offensive cyber, EW
“We feel like this acquisition moves us in some certain sub-elements of offensive cyber about 18 months forward on what we would have been able to do with our organic investment,” President of Leidos National Security Sector Roy Stevens told Breaking Defense.
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Data overload threatens decisionmakers as autonomy expands
Reducing cognitive overload on warfighters while improving “time to trust” for autonomous systems is a matter of design.
DIA sees ‘dramatic’ change in space competition; China, Russia ‘mature’ capabilities
The bottom line, according to DIA is that space "is being increasingly militarized" around the globe, and the threats to US military and commercial space activities continue to grow, from ground-based ASAT tests, to ISR fleets, to deep space hiding places.
‘The game has changed’: VMware exec says defense industry faces destructive cyberattacks, belligerent foes
VMware's Tom Kellermann linked increasingly aggressive attacks to geopolitical tensions with Russia and Belarus.
Army Cyber Pivots To Pacific: Fogarty
“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.
Retaliation Options: US Cyber Responses To SolarWinds, Exchange Hacks
Three experts gave us exclusive in-depth insights into the administration's potential menu of retaliatory options, along with U.S. cyber strategic, policy, and operations considerations.
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GPS: Still the gold standard in global navigation
The GPS network continues to prove its unmatched reliability, and it’s only getting stronger.
AF Should Consider New Combined ISR/Cyber/EW Command: Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
"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.
Air Force Joins Army Parachuting Into InfoWar; Creates New Unified Subcommand
The Air Force wants to develop information warfare capabilities to "deter malign activities from [the] information warfare level all the way up to conflict," says Air Combat Command head Gen. Mike Holmes.
How To Wage Global Cyber War: Nakasone, Norton, & Deasy
The military needs a globe-spanning network to counter threats that no single theater command can cope with. That takes more than just technology.
Can NSA Stop China Copying Its Cyber Weapons?
China is copying malware the NSA has used against them. Is this preventable or is it an inherent weakness of cyber warfare?
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Keeping sensitive information safe in a new AI era
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NATO To ‘Integrate’ Offensive Cyber By Members
"NATO is clear that we will not perform offensive cyberspace operations," said Maj. Gen. Wolfgang Renner. "However, we will integrate sovereign cyberspace effects from the allies who are willing to volunteer."
Rogers, Richardson, Neller Brainstorm Future Cyber Structure
SAN DIEGO: Adm. Mike Rogers, who heads both NSA and Cyber Command, is looking past CYBERCOM’s elevation to an independent Unified Command towards a much wider reorganization of military cyber. Some reorganization is implicit in a Feb. 17 memo in which Defense Secretary Jim Mattis charges Deputy Secretary Bob Work to “develop an initial plan… […]
Army Wargames Hone Battlefield Cyber Teams
ARLINGTON: The Army is reinforcing its combat brigades with cyber soldiers. In 18 months of wargames with a wide range of units — tanks, Strykers, infantry, Airborne, Rangers — Army Cyber Command troops have brought hacking and jamming to bear on the (simulated) battlefield alongside guns and bombs. The exercises have already revealed cybersecurity shortfalls […]
Fight Against Islamic State Not COIN, Increasingly High Tech: Carter
FORT BRAGG, NC: The US is not practicing traditional counter-insurgency (COIN) warfare in Iraq and Syria. Instead, the US is providing high-tech firepower, cyber power, and other “enablers” to local allies who don’t have them, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said here today. That approach, which ranges from stealth fighters to “cyber bombs,” has a lot in common with […]