China is accelerating the improvement of its military, drawing closer to parity with the US in a number of key technologies, and building a smaller but far more professional force of troops, according to a new Defense Intelligence Agency assessment.
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The Air Force wants to buy a cyber weapons platform that can arm the online warriors of US Cyber Command at the warp speed of the internet rather than the tortoise pace of acquisition—and it’s looking at proposals now.
The Air Force has undergone an intense review of its force structure, using wargames, modelling and simulation, to determine the number of squadrons it needs to fight future wars and address great power competition.
On June 5, a team including Air Force, CyberWorx, and industry partners presented the latest iteration of a cybersecurity tool to top USAF technology leaders.
There wa?s no Internet the last time USAF dealt with similar certification.
A leaked, “pre-decisional” draft of the Nuclear Posture Review was misinterpreted by writers who deduced from it that the US will respond to any cyber attacks with nuclear weapons, the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told reporters Tuesday.
Every single day, the cyber warriors at the 33rd Network Warfare Squadron come face to face—keystroke to keystroke—with hundreds of attacks against the service’s main and massive network.
The Air Force will almost certainly push together its cyber-focused 24th Air Force with its ISR-focused 25th Air Force, according to the commander of 24 AF.
A new USAF cyber initiative, based at the Air Force Academy reached initial operational capability last month. CyberWorx is a public-private partnership that uses principles of Design Thinking methodology to solve operational problems in the cyber realm. Design Thinking “uses...