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Sgt. 1st Class Richard
Miller, left, and Chief
Warrant Officer 2
Larry Elrod, U.S. Army
Cyber Protection
Brigade, discuss the
response to a simulated
cyberattack at
the Joint Readiness
Training Center, Fort
Polk, La.
U.S. Army/Bill Roche
To support the Army’s tactical forces, we have made delivering
cyberspace operations capabilities to Army corps and
below a major focus. Last year, the Army’s chief of staff challenged
us to demonstrate tactical cyber integration at the
brigade combat team level in home-station training and at
the combat training centers. Lessons learned from these pilots
continue to inform the Army’s employment and integration
of cyberspace capabilities and the convergence with information
operations and electronic warfare.
Our second priority—pursue a more defensible network—
is another critical component of our abilities to execute operations
across highly networked forces operating in all domains.
The integration of networks, systems and data has delivered
unprecedented awareness and warfighting capability to the
tactical edge, to the point it is now a dependency that, by extension,
makes it a vulnerability that must be protected. The
Army continues to improve and protect its networked information
technology capabilities and the cybersecurity of networks,
systems and data through modernization efforts and
cyberspace operations.
Lt. Gen. Edward C. Cardon, commanding general of U.S. Army
Cyber Command and Second Army, has commanded at every
level from company through division. He holds a bachelor’s degree
from the U.S. Military Academy, and master’s degrees in
national security and strategic studies from the National War
College and the U.S. Naval Command and Staff College. Portions
of this article appeared in Joint Force Quarterly.
Creating a more defensible network will also improve our
situational awareness in cyberspace. Army Cyber Command
is pursuing foundational cyber analytics capabilities to gather
unprecedented quantities of data across cyberspace, giving us
a clearer picture of our networks, systems and data. Coupled
with architecture modernization, this effort is critical to protect
the future force and our ability to fight and win.
Our third priority—organize, staff, train and equip ready
cyber forces—is a joint effort that has produced significant
change across the Army. Over the past two years, the Army
has started aligning command and control by assigning the
Network Enterprise Technology Command to Army Cyber
Command and building our active component cyber mission
force, with the goal of having all 41 Army cyber mission force
teams operating by the end of fiscal year 2016.
Reserve component forces are also an essential part of the
Army’s cyberspace force. Army Cyber Command is a multicomponent
organization of active and reserve soldiers. The
Army is building 21 additional cyber protection teams: 11 in
the Army National Guard, and 10 in the Army Reserve.
These teams expand the depth of talent and capability of our
overall force and are critical partners in this domain.
‘The Ultimate Enablers’
The Army will use exercises this year to inform the concepts,
organizations and capabilities needed to support ground
forces. It is increasingly clear there is a convergence of cyber,
tactical intelligence, signal, electronic warfare, information op-
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