A fresh look at the Pentagon’s effort to beef up its cyber warfare division by Bloomberg Businessweek only confirms what many of us already know: We are years behind but at least progress is being made. The important part is that at least we are identifying the problems, adjusting and ramping up the program to train our nation’s cyberwarriors.
Cyber warfare is the battlefield of future wars and our training ground for this is in Pensacola, Florida where the training takes place. Let’s hope that U.S. Cyber Command keeps staying aggressive. We are going to need them to defeat China and other rogue cyber states that are coming for our power grids, nuclear plants and more. Read more below.
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From Bloomberg Businessweek
Inside the U.S. Navy’s Corry Station base in Pensacola, Fla., there’s a school that wouldn’t look out of place on any well-manicured college campus—except for a handful of buildings wreathed in barbed wire, with the windows bricked up. That’s to keep electronic signals from getting in or out. The buildings make up the Center for Information Dominance (CID), the Pentagon’s primary boot camp for personnel training in the art of cyberwar.
U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter has said that cyber may one day become the sixth service branch, but the military doesn’t yet have the staff for it. The Pentagon said in April that U.S. Cyber Command, the organization created in 2010 to coordinate military efforts online, won’t reach its six-year goal of deploying 6,200 military and civilian personnel until 2018, two years late. The new force is to be responsible for defending the Pentagon’s computer systems as well as, at the direction of the president or defense secretary, launching cyber attacks. Admiral Michael Rogers, who heads Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, told Congress the government has been “hard-pressed” to find and train qualified service members.
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