Cyberspace is both a tool and a domain in modern warfare, playing a critical role in helping the US and allies make more rapid decisions while enabling capabilities designed to bog down the enemy’s decision-making processes, Lt. Gen. Brad Shwedo said.
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A new provision of the 2019 NDAA clears the way for fully fledged joint operations in cyberspace involving both military personnel and those from civilian agencies like the Department of Homeland Security, officials said Thursday.
The Air Force Association's (AFA) CyberPatriot program crowned the winners of the 11th season of its National Youth Cyber Defense Competition on Wednesday, April 10 in Baltimore.
A plan for merging Air Force Air Combat Command’s cyber and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance enterprises will take shape this spring, and officials will announce their path forward this summer, the command’s top general said Thursday.
US Cyber Command views its existing cadre of cyber warriors as a starting point for growth as the Pentagon pivots to compete with more tech-savvy adversaries, the command’s top general told lawmakers Thursday.
Cybersecurity threats are proliferating faster than DOD can discover and address them in operational evaluations, and the military needs additional, more advanced cyber “Red Teams,” the Pentagon’s top testing official recently said in his annual report.
Data issues took center stage on a national security-heavy day on Capitol Hill Jan. 29, as lawmakers and defense officials discussed how to mine, protect, leverage, and combat information as a cornerstone of modern warfare.
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.
A council of colonels from the cyber warfare components of all four military services will be part of a multi-layered governance structure for Unified Platform, the new cyber weapons factory USAF is building for CYBERCOM, a USAF acquisition official said.