Defense Systems

How The Navy Trains Its Info Warfare Officers Needs Work

The goal is to expand the training into virtual and synthetic environments in the next few years.

Ideas

One Year In: What Are The Lessons from Ukraine For The Future Of War?

From drones to network attacks to the LikeWar of social media, the conflict marks a turning point from old to new.

Policy

Expect Pentagon's Cyber-Worker Strategy 'Any Day Now'

Plan aims to attract smart, effective people, in part by reducing education and certification requirements.

Policy

The Pentagon Has Unimplemented Cyber Recommendations from 2012

A new report from the Office of Inspector General points out longstanding unmet requests.

Defense Systems

Tougher Cybersecurity Rules May Be More than a Year Away—But Don’t Wait to Get Ready

Contractors should prepare for independent checks on their data systems, and maybe more reporting requirements as well.

Threats

To Protect Satellites, Secure Your Networks, Chief of Space Ops Says

Cyber attacks can undermine space-based capabilities, Gen. Chance Saltzman said.

Science & Tech

Army's Digital-Transformation Chief to Step Down

After two years of ushering the service toward cloud-based services, CIO Raj Iyer will leave "over the next several weeks."

Threats

Foreign Meddling in US Elections Affects Allies’ Trust, Study Finds

When respondents were told that American democracy wasn’t working reliably, they lost faith in the U.S. commitment to partnerships.

Policy

New Ranking Member Could Shake up a Key Senate Oversight Committee

A new Republican on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee wants the body to "reassert itself."

Science & Tech

Musk Has Reduced Twitter’s Ability to Spot Foreign Disinformation, a Former Data Scientist Says

Staff layoffs are just one way the new CEO has undermined the platform’s three-legged approach to the problem.

Policy

Omnibus Spending Bill Would Ban TikTok on Government Devices

Congress may need to do more to ward off the national-security threat of the Chinese-made video app, one senator says.

Defense Systems

A Wireless Intelligence Community ‘On The Horizon,' Official Says

Getting there is a matter of appropriately protecting data and tweaking policies to allow for wireless secret- and top-secret networks.

Defense Systems

For DOD, 2023 Is All About Proving It Can Build A Tactical Cloud

The plan is to develop and deploy a prototype, possibly in the Pacific region, in the next six months. The newly awarded Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability will help.

Science & Tech

Cyber, Speed, and UFOs: A Tour of Tech Provisions in the 2023 NDAA

The defense policy bill also prods the intelligence community to follow other defense agencies’ emerging-tech efforts.