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SAN FRANCISCO — The Defense Department’s day-to-day operations are linked in a vast, international in-house data communications network called the Global Information Grid. Seven million people — uniformed members of the armed forces as well as civilians — rely on it to exchange classified and unclassified information on personnel, vehicles, weapons and surveillance systems.
ORLANDO, Fla. -— There was no specific tactical warning intelligence preceding the September assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, an attack that took the lives of the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, according to Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.
Air Force Secretary Michael Donley and Chief Scientist Mark Maybury explain how science and technology efforts can sustain the U.S. advantage in cyberspace
In the search for tools that sift vast amounts of data, a multitude of U.S. agencies have turned to TAC, a Boeing software product that can swiftly and automatically apply thousands of sophisticated queries to documents, data streams, and structured and unstructured data sets.
Pushing the U.S. Air Force’s E-8C radar planes to fly until some of them are more than 60 years old will be even harder than it sounds. That’s the message the planes’ contractor wants Air Force leaders to hear, now that the service has declared it can’t afford to replace the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft.
In the year since a sophisticated cyber attack on Japan’s largest military contractor unleashed a flood of revelations about the vulnerability of the country’s most sensitive technical data, cybersecurity has vaulted onto the country’s national security agenda.
Federally funded centers created to improve terrorism-related information-sharing with state and local governments often produce “irrelevant, useless or inappropriate intelligence reporting,” congressional investigators concluded in a review released Tuesday.
President Obama’s counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, is the White House point man for the war on al-Qaida and its affiliates. He’s the key official coordinating the administration’s “targeted killing” of suspected terrorists with air strikes launched from drones flying over Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia. But Brennan is carrying around some unpleasant baggage that has remained a secret.
The new head of the Air Force said he “isn’t exactly sure” what the Air Force is doing in cyberwarfare, and he will wait to invest in cybersecurity until the service can better understand cyber in general to improve its communication with the other services and itself.
The White House is working with the Department of Homeland Security, FBI and others to develop an executive order to counter cybersecurity threats.
An August 16 email from the Army’s acting assistant secretary for acquisition, Heidi Shyu, demanded “immediate corrective action” after she discovered that the 3rd Infantry Division had attempted to obtain controversial intelligence software for stateside training prior to its deployment to Afghanistan.
The U.S. government believes that cyber attacks can amount to armed attacks, and are subject to international humanitarian law and rules of war, the top State Department lawyer said Sept. 18.
Collecting and distributing the right information at the right time to the right soldier is critical to mission success. But updating soldiers during a mission is an operational hurdle that has been inadequately addressed, leaving gaps in communication and situational awareness. Dismounted soldiers face particular challenges in receiving digital assets and information because they are not guaranteed to be connected to tactical communications.
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