The Air Force is seeking industry input on a Cyber Control System that would provide automatic alerts to Air Force Cyber (AFCYBER) operators if an adversary nation launches an attack on the US military information infrastructure. The system also would initiate, within “a matter of milliseconds,” an “emergency network triage,” following “pre-defined rules of engagement.” The Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom AFB, Mass., last week issued a request for information to seek industry approaches for this new cyber effort and plans to host an industry day on Jan. 29. The service has “identified” $7 million in Fiscal 2008 dollars and $20 million in 2009 toward an “incremental CCS implementation.”
New approaches to testing Space Force equipment are speeding up delivery to operators, but the service needs more testers and perhaps its own space-focused test center, officials said April 1. Those are key pieces of the fledgling force’s testing methods and future moves that will keep new technology flowing into…