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National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Competition Keen for Next Generation of Cyberwarriors The Air Force last year established its first command devoted solely to protecting and attacking networks. But in a time when cybersecurity experts are in high demand, the question has arisen: Where is the talent coming from? |
National Defense December 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Strategic Command Selling Itself to Field Commanders The officers at U.S. Strategic Command are trying to sell their ability to support commanding officers. |
National Defense December 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Strategic Command's Expanded Portfolio Prompts Skepticism Stratcom is wrapping up a four-year process where it has reinvented itself, and taken eight missions into its fold. Now comes the hard part: proving to the rest of the U.S. defense community that it can effectively deliver its services. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John Keller |
The importance of military information security Will the the computer and the data network be the aircraft carrier and atomic bomb of the future? |
InternetNews April 15, 2010 |
Cyber Command Plans to Focus on Coordination Nominee for the new Department of Defense position says the agency is going to lead other agencies in cyber attacks instead of waging its own. |
National Defense June 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Defense Department Infrastructure Still Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks, Critics Say The Defense Department knows how to fight a kinetic war with bullets, bombs and boots on the ground, but it is still figuring out what a cyberwar would look like and how it would be fought. |
National Defense February 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Special Operators Ponder the Right Mix of Roles and Missions U.S. Special Operations Command is growing. From 48,000 personnel today, its numbers are expected to increase to 58,000 in the coming years. But how will they be used? |
National Defense August 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Do Cyberwarriors Belong at Special Operations Command? Josh Hartman, a former congressional staffer and Defense Department executive, knows a good place for the military to house its cadre of cyberwarriors: In Tampa, Fla., at MacDill Air Force Base, home of Special Operations Command. |
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson |
Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force. |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Space Command Ponders Role in Irregular Warfare Military communications, reconnaissance and GPS satellites provide services to deployed forces every day, but the organization wants to know what more it can do to participate in the irregular warfare that ground forces are currently engaged in. |
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean |
Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best. |
Parameters Summer 2005 Cebrowski & Raymond |
Operationally Responsive Space: A New Defense Business Model As the major defense power in the world, the United States military must dare to compete with itself to ensure sustained advantage. We must set our own standards. Space has long been an arena of American dominance. That must continue. |
National Defense September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
U.S. Central Command Leads Push to Connect Allies in Common Network U.S. military leaders in regional commands have coped with limited interoperability with allies by setting up one-off communications systems. |
National Defense November 2011 Eric Beidel |
Coast Guard Cyberdefense Office: Small but Mighty Like the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps, the Coast Guard suffers thousands of attacks on its networks each month. |
National Defense February 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
To Improve Cyber-Security, U.S. Needs Cohesive Public-Private Partnership NDIA member companies recently put together a white paper on the necessity to better acquire and field cyber-capabilities. |
InternetNews September 24, 2010 |
Obama Admin Mulls Cybersecurity, Senate Bill Stalls Head of U.S. Cyber Command describes White House-led review of current cybersecurity authorities, while efforts in the Senate for comprehensive reform appear to have hit a roadblock. |
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Glenn Derene |
The Coming Cyberwar: Inside the Pentagon's Plan to Fight Back In the modern American military, digital telecommunication is so integral to command and control of forces and equipment that the disruption of data can do more to disable a fighting force than a thousand bombs |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Military Looks to Small Satellites as Costs for Large Spacecraft Grow After some 50 years of launching large, complex, multi-million dollar spacecraft, the military and industry are rethinking the way satellites are built and acquired. |
National Defense December 2015 Lloyd McCoy Jr. |
Defense Department Plays Key Role in Industrial Base Oversight The Defense Department and other federal agencies have been directed to identify and protect critical infrastructure sectors specific to their mission. |
National Defense February 2007 Erwin & Jean |
Pentagon's African Command: Will It Float? While Pentagon officials fine-tune plans to create a new military command to oversee Africa, Navy leaders are floating a proposal to base that command's headquarters on a ship at sea. |
InternetNews June 4, 2010 |
DoD Cyber Czar Sounds Alarm Charged with leading the Defense Department's new and long overdue cybersecurity unit, Gen. Keith Alexander made it clear that there's plenty for our country to worry about. |
InternetNews October 9, 2009 Larry Barrett |
Cyber Terrorism Demands New Tactics: Study RAND Corporation says fighting online threats to national security requires nontraditional tactics, immediate attention. |
National Defense June 2011 Stew Magnuson |
When it Comes to Cybersecurity, the 'Who is Responsible for What?' Debate Continues Most experts seem to agree that the U.S. government's collective efforts to secure the Internet from large-scale attacks and other nefarious activities are lacking. |
National Defense June 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Air Force Faces Daunting Task to Determine What's Happening in Space The Air Force needs to monitor to have a complete picture of what is happening to the thousands of orbiting systems that circle the planet. |
National Defense January 2016 Allyson Versprille |
Fragmented Cyber Legislation Hinders Military The patchwork of legislation that allows the U.S. military and government to perform cyber operations is too disjointed to enable an effective and swift response, a former Army officer said. |
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper |
Defense Department Moving Slowly on 'Internet of Things' The "Internet of Things" is a key component of the military's modernization strategy. But the Pentagon is behind the curve due to security concerns and other impediments, cyber experts said. |
National Defense December 2013 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Industry, Military Emphasize Need for 'Cyberwarrior' Training as Attacks Increase Government and military leaders have for years warned of increasingly pervasive and nefarious cyber-attacks. The network intrusions, perpetrated by nation states, hacktivists and thieves, are growing rapidly, experts have said. |
National Defense December 2010 Grace V. Jean |
Air Force Graduates First Batch of Cyberwarriors Thousands of Air Force communications personnel are now transitioning into the newly designated cyber career field. |
National Defense July 2012 Eric Beidel |
iCollege Takes Nation's Cybersecurity Leaders Back to School The iCollege, also known as the Information Resources Management College, is working to fill the gap in knowledge that exists among the senior leadership trying to carve out policies and strategies under which the government's "cyberwarriors" must operate. |
National Defense January 2012 Eric Beidel |
Military Academies Look to Fill Nation's Cybersecurity Gaps Like West Point, the other academies recognize the sea change and are putting increased focus on their network security curriculum, both for these specialists and for the rest of the students who pass through their doors. |
National Defense June 2014 Lloyd McCoy |
Defense IT Spending on Downslope With the defense budget under growing pressure, the Pentagon's chief information officer and budget leaders are looking at information technology as a way to do more with less. |
InternetNews July 29, 2010 |
U.S. General Details the Impact of Cyber War At the Black Hat security conference, retired General and former CIA director Michael Hayden explains the dangers of cyber attacks. |
National Defense July 2007 Breanne Wagner |
Experts Downplay Imminent Threat of Cyberterrorism U.S. officials are worried about the threat of a terrorist attack against civilian and government computer systems, but experts say any attack by cyber terrorists is likely to be non-debilitating worms and viruses. |
National Defense August 2014 Stew Magnuson |
Cyber Labor Shortage Not What it Seems, Experts Say Only a handful of universities offering cyber security degrees are producing graduates who have "hard skills." |
InternetNews September 7, 2010 |
Cybersecurity Czar: Privacy Won't Be a Casualty NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander reaffirmed his view that protecting U.S. government, military and civilian data networks doesn't mean sacrificing citizens' right to privacy. |
InternetNews June 8, 2010 |
HP System to Help Air Force Fight Cyber Threats HP's won a contract for a Cyber Control System that will help the Air Force gather strategic information and identify cyber threats. |
National Defense March 2015 Sarah Sicard |
North Korean Cyber Attack on Sony Poses Tough Security Questions While cyber attacks are on the rise around the world -- both from inside and outside threats -- this was the first known instance of a country deliberately causing destruction to a U.S. company's data. |
InternetNews June 30, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Net Ushering in Era of War Without Borders Expert sees a new face of cyber warfare forcing 'some of the hardest national security decisions you'll have to make.' |
InternetNews August 4, 2009 |
Cyber War Could Cause Global Collateral Damage The effects of an all-out cyber war would be impossible to control and could be felt worldwide, experts say. |
National Defense June 2008 Breanne Wagner |
Pentagon, Intelligence Community May Adopt Unified Space Strategy The United States spends billions of dollars to maintain its superiority in space. But lack of coordination between the Defense Department and the intelligence community is impeding efforts to efficiently manage these efforts. |
Registered Rep. December 15, 2004 John Churchill |
Friendly Fire The NASD did its part for the U.S. troops today, fining Texas broker/dealer First Command $12 million for misleading its mostly military clientele about the costs of the 50 percent upfront sales charge attached to its systematic investment plan. |
InternetNews October 27, 2010 |
Does the U.S. Need an Internet 'Kill Switch'? A majority of U.S. consumers surveyed said the government should have the authority to shut down parts of the Internet if necessary to head off a cyber attack. |
National Defense January 2016 Stephanie Meloni |
Defense Department Assuming Growing Cyber Security Role The Defense Department sees cyber as a domain that spans air, land, sea and space, but it struggles with how to handle it as a war fighting domain to best protect the nation. |
InternetNews December 7, 2004 Roy Mark |
Execs Call for Tighter Cyber Security Control Security alliance claims White House and DHS are not doing enough to protect against cyber attacks. |
National Defense January 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Homeland Defense Research Agency Directs Attention To Cyber Security Fearing the specter of crippling attacks on government and private sector computer systems, federal officials are stepping up efforts to foil cyber terrorism. |