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.”
Members of the Air Force Reserve’s 920th Rescue Wing helped save 11 airplane crash survivors off the coast of Florida on May 12. The Reserve Airmen were flying an HC-130J Combat King II and an HH-60W Jolly Green II on a routine training flight when a Coast Guard call diverted…