The official in charge of crafting Air Force weather and space environmental doctrine said this week one of the biggest challenges the service has faced as it works to modernize space weather ground stations is protecting and verifying data. "Probably the biggest challenge we've come up with both internally and certainly more so externally is the issue of cybersecurity," Ralph Stoffler, director of weather, said during a Dec. 11 Aerospace Corp. event on Capitol Hill. "We've got a lot of...