C4ISR Watch

HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, MA -- The Air Force and its industry partners are moving forward with efforts to reshape Air Operations Center Weapon System modernization, despite congressional hesitation to fund the new pathfinder and remaining questions about how planning, management and oversight will unfold.

KANGERLUSSAUQ, GREENLAND -- Early next month, senior Air Force leaders are heading to Thule Air Force base, the U.S. military's northernmost post in the world and one of the service's most unique locations, as part of a tour of the High North expected to inform thinking on an Arctic strategy.

The Defense Information Systems Agency is focusing more on the cybersecurity of commercial cloud offerings, as the agency works with the General Services Administration to make security standards more uniform across government, according to a DISA official.

A long-awaited U.S. cybersecurity "doctrine" proposal from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-AZ) has been introduced as part of the fiscal 2018 defense authorization bill, according to congressional sources, detailing powers and processes the United States can employ to deter and respond to foreign cyber threats.

Despite President Trump's decision to elevate U.S. Cyber Command to a unified combatant command, the Pentagon will not put a time line on when the command will be separated from the National Security Agency.

Rapid technological advancement by not only the United States and its allies, but by adversaries, presents new challenges for the Army and the joint force, according to the head of Army Cyber Command.

The Navy's approach to hardening cybersecurity by utilizing talent outside of the service was "validated" through its recent "Hack-our-Ship" event, according to Thresa Lang, Navy cybersecurity division deputy director in the office of the chief of naval operations (N2/N6G).

The Air Force is moving forward with a plan to address two critical weather coverage gaps and launch an initial space-based environmental monitoring capability in fiscal year 2024.

Legislation offered by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers would require the government to develop an interagency response to a cyberattack that threatens the sensitive data of federal employees, in a move that could set new data-breach reporting requirements and would establish as a matter of national security an attack on federal data systems.