Army Unveils Hacker HQ For Offensive Cyber, Info War
The new high-tech operations center at Fort Gordon lets Army Cyber Command spend less time defending US networks and more time attacking adversaries.
Cyber Attack? Then We Fight Back: Sen. King
Amidst the usual calls for government reform and corporate responsibility, the Cyberspace Solarium Commission makes a surprisingly hard-headed case for old-school deterrence.
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Pioneering the future of airborne ISR: ASELSAN’s ASELFLIR 600
Blending superior optics, advanced stabilization and AI-powered autonomy in a compact and rugged system, ASELFLIR 600 delivers unmatched intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities.
Cyber Command Seeks $106M For Unfunded Priorities Worldwide
The unclassified summary is short and vague, but we estimate 38 percent could be for offensive cyber warfare, 49 percent is undoubtedly defensive, and 13 percent is for forward defense in allied nations’ cyberspace.
War With Iran Could Be Sharp & Short With Fifth Gen Aircraft: Deptula
PRELUDE: Early morning, 0240 Baghdad time on January 17, 2020 (1840 EST 16 Jan 2020), marked the 29th anniversary of the start of Operation Desert Storm. It was a turning point in the conduct of warfare and set the conditions for modern warfare. The recent hostilities between Iran and the United States reinforce the importance […]
Prepare For the Worst From Iran Cyber Attacks, As DHS Issues Warning: Experts
Experts warn that Iran almost certainly now has the cyber tools to inflict physical damage on US critical infrastructure.
AFRL Cyber Center To Train How To Hack Sensors (Think IoT)
The Air Force sees the New Mexico training environment as eventually becoming a cyber training range for the entire Defense Department.
Michigan: Arsenal of Democracy for dangerous times
Michigan’s defense ecosystem and expertise makes it a special asset for production.
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.
Iraq: Proving Ground For Multi-Domain Battle
ARMY WAR COLLEGE: The brutal ground war in Iraq holds vital lessons for sophisticated future operations in the Pacific, Australian Maj. Gen. Roger Noble said today. Military pundits often draw a sharp distinction between what they consider low-tech warfare against irregular forces, as in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, and high-tech war against states like China […]
At Red Flag ‘It’s Tough To Be Legacy Aircraft In An LO World’
WASHINGTON: “You get whacked a lot.” Those are the words of someone who should know, the leader of the aggressor squadron at Red Flag, the man who tries to kill U.S. forces. Lt. Col. Tyler Lewis, commander of the 57th Adversary Tactics Support Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, echoed comments we’ve heard before, that […]
Army Cyber Accelerates; Electronic Warfare Lags
PENTAGON: The Army is ahead of schedule building cyber teams — but its equally essential electronic warfare branch is lagging badly. Like a fiddler crab, one arm is much more developed than the other. While effective in the current fight against Daesh (aka ISIL), this unbalanced force would be at a severe disadvantage in future Multi-Domain Battles […]
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JADC2 gets its first C2 gateway authorized to update itself
The initial command and control gateway to earn a continuous Authority to Operate is changing multi-domain operations.
Trump WH Makes It Official: Bigger Navy, Air Force & ‘End’ To Sequestration:
WASHINGTON: Soon after President Donald Trump took the oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution,” the White House posted two documents declaring they would boost the size of the Navy and Air Force, increase our offensive and defensive cyber capabilities and end sequestration. In the first document, Making Our Military Strong Again, the Trump Administration […]
BAE Systems Inches Out In Public On Electronic Warfare
FARNBOROUGH: For much of the last few years when one thought of electronic warfare, one tended to think of Raytheon. After all, they’re building the Next Generation Jammer, right? BAE Systems would like to change that and is beginning to take a guarded but more public stance. For years, Air Force officials have declined to […]
Thornberry Fears Bureaucracy Hamstrings Cyber Vs. Daesh
WASHINGTON: Why does the internet still work in Raqqa? That simple question about the Syrian capital of Daesh, the self-proclaimed Islamic State, posed today by retired fighter pilot Rep. Martha McSally, goes to the heart of how the military will use — or refrain from using — cyber weapons. It goes to deep suspicions that […]
Offensive Cyber In The Street Fight
Cyber war is coming to the street fight. Just weeks ago, when the Army’s 1/1 Armored Brigade conducted both live and virtual wargames against a simulated enemy, the old-school treadheads had a revolutionary new ally: offensive cyber teams, with two to three specialists from Army Cyber Command (ARCYBER). Capabilities once restricted to national missions and strategic […]