Kendall calls for DSB study on offensive cyber capabilities

By Jordana Mishory / December 16, 2016 at 5:12 PM
The Pentagon's acquisition chief has tasked the Defense Science Board with examining how cyber can be used as an offensive strategic capability, a study that comes as the intelligence community has blamed Russia for hacking Democratic emails to help Donald Trump win the presidency. In a July 15 terms of reference memo made public this week, Frank Kendall said the primary goal of the DSB task force is to "investigate the opportunities for, and limitations of, offensive cyber...

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