Air Force Intranet Control (AFINC) became the first cyberspace weapon system to reach full operational capability in early January, according to a Jan. 19 release. AFINC replaced and consolidated more than 100 regionally managed disparate Air Force network entry points into 16 centrally managed access points bolstering cyber defense and security, according to the release. The 26th Network Operations Squadron, at Gunter Annex in Montgomery, Ala., serves as the “first line of defense” for the Air Force network, said Col. Pamela Woolley, commander of the 26th Cyberspace Operations Group, in the release. “The 26th NOS team is responsible for more than one billion firewall, web, and email blocks per week from suspicious and adversarial sources,” she said. “Our network is under constant attack and it is a testament to the dedication of our 26th NOS team that our network reliability and traffic flow remains consistently high.”
The Defense Innovation Unit is gearing up for the first flight of its commercially developed hypersonic testbed as soon as the end of February—part of a larger project to quickly increase the cadence of the Pentagon’s hypersonic flight testing and field advanced, high-speed systems and components at scale.
