NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate Is ‘Back to the Future’
The elevation of the cybersecurity mission to "its own Directorate raises its stature in NSA to a prominence that is absolutely needed," says one former NSA official.
Army Boosts Electronic Warfare Numbers, Training, Role
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. Now, even when complete, these reforms won’t fix all the Army’s problems, much […]
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America must adopt a Sixth Domain of warfare doctrine
The Sixth Domain is not defined by geography. It’s a new kind of conflict in which autonomy and networked systems allow thousand-dollar consumer electronics to destroy multi-million-dollar conventional weapons systems.
Army Wrestles With SIGINT vs. EW
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.
Busting The Green Door: Army SIGINT Refocuses On Russia & China
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."
US Needs Hi-Lo Mix Of ‘Exquisite’ & Affordable ISR: Intel Official
"Those will be debates we'll have over the next couple of years, and those are some tough choices," intelligence official Kevin Sherman told me. "Do we reduce some of those capabilities have been very helpful in the CT (counter-terrorism) fight, that a lot of our combatant commands have relied on, in order to buy more exquisite things?"
SecAF: Don’t Expect Large Budget Increases After 2019; $2.4B Set For Light Attack
The Air Force placed a $2.4 billion placeholder in the 2019 budget to buy Light Attack Aircraft over the next five years, Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told reporters this morning.
Modernizing defense enterprise IT without disrupting the mission
Government can’t stop to update systems, so modernization has to happen without interruptions.