Marines will conduct G/ATOR follow-on cybersecurity assessments

By Lee Hudson / February 7, 2018 at 9:10 AM
The Marine Corps will conduct a follow-on cooperative vulnerability penetration and adversarial assessment on the Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar. Pentagon chief weapons tester Robert Behler in an annual report published Jan. 24 said both assessments on G/ATOR Block 1 and Block 2 are needed for initial operational test and evaluation. Behler noted cybersecurity tests conducted in fiscal year 2017 helped to characterize vulnerabilities. "However, they were not conducted under operationally realistic conditions and did not assess operator responses to various...

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