While the Air Force was perhaps the most vocal of the services about plans to fight in cyberspace, others also are gearing up for the fight online.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Friday, April 19, 2024
Sebastian Sprenger was the chief editor of Inside the Army until May 2016, where he primarily reported on land warfare and associated budgets, policies and technologies. A native of Siegen, Germany, he got is start in journalism at the now-defunct Westfälische Rundschau in Kreuztal. He studied at Universität Trier and elsewhere.
While the Air Force was perhaps the most vocal of the services about plans to fight in cyberspace, others also are gearing up for the fight online.
U.S. Special Operations Command officials hope to finish work on the military's first-ever joint integrating concept for unconventional warfare by the end of the year, despite early indications that reaching consensus on the document could be difficult, according to documents and sources.
After the lighter literary fare of the holidays, some might eagerly want to return to the somewhat drier texts of the U.S. military establishment.
Defense officials today announced the president's approval of a new Unified Command Plan that gives U.S. Strategic Command the lead in military cyberspace activities and puts U.S. Northern Command in charge of planning the Defense Department's response to a widespread influenza outbreak.
Amid the reviewing of the strategy and requirements for the war in Afghanistan, biometric capabilities are a sure bet to be one of the requirements on the rise there, we're told.
Congressional authorizers recently approved a renewed Defense Department reprogramming request that would fully fund the Minerva initiative.
Defense Department officials are close to unveiling a key policy document governing the training and advising of foreign security forces as part of a far-reaching push to translate into formal guidance the lessons from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars before the end of the Bush administration, according to documents and sources.
The military will provide about 11,500 active-duty and Reserve personnel to guard against the possibility of a terrorist attack during the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, according to U.S. Northern Command chief Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart.
Defense Department officials working on the military's first-ever biometrics science and technology roadmap were concerned their forthcoming document might be perceived as merely another technical piece of writing amid the flurry of Pentagon roadmaps, plans, strategies and what-have-you.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates should direct Air Force leaders to "pick up the pace" of the Transformational Satellite program, according to a panel of defense and intelligence experts who argue the next-generation communications satellite will be key to distributing vital intelligence information throughout the U.S. national security establishment.
The Army's Human Terrain Team program, which has repeatedly come under fire since its creation, is getting a shout-out from a counterinsurgency officer in Afghanistan.
A few months ago, Defense Department officials announced plans to manage two of the 2009 Joint Capability Technology Demonstration candidates under the competitive prototyping approach, we reported last month.
Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England this month approved a new Pentagon policy governing military efforts to disrupt terrorist groups' funding streams.
The National Security Agency plays a huge role in the government's cyberspace activities.
As military leaders weigh an increase of 20,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, a counterinsurgency officer there says the incoming forces should make protecting the local population -- not fighting insurgents -- the central goal of their operations.
Members of a U.S. Central Command-led team charged with undertaking a comprehensive review of the command's strategy were scheduled to arrive in Afghanistan late last week to hear from military personnel and diplomats about the situation on the ground there, we're told.
Military officials of the incoming Obama administration should create a "credible military presence" in cyberspace capable of deterring would-be attackers from targeting U.S. interests in the virtual domain, according to a new report by a think tank-sponsored commission of cybersecurity experts.
The Defense Department has proposed a new rule that would establish new policies governing the employment of federal military forces during domestic crises.
Army officials are in the early stages of determining the optimal size and organization of a new cadre of soldiers dedicated to fighting wars in cyberspace, according to a service official.
There's a lot of national security-related introspection going on in the government these days, which some would say is fitting during a presidential transition.