Cyber News

  • CFC Cause of the Week: Military Support

    The Combined Federal Campaign is underway, allowing personnel and retirees to pledge monetary support and volunteer time to approved charities. CFC’s Cause of the Week for Nov. 8-14 is “Military Support.”

  • AFTC Airmen spark data solutions at hack-a-thon

    Various participants, also referred to as “hackers” from the 412th Test Wing in California, the 96th Test Wing in Florida, and Arnold Engineering Development Complex in Tennessee combined efforts to create an event that could potentially solve U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School sponsored data

  • Americans Answer Call to Arms During World War I

    World War I at one time was known as the Great War or "the war to end all wars" because not many could have imagined an even bloodier global conflict — World War II — would occur just two decades later.

  • Nebraska ANG cybersecurity team keeps network safe

    LINCOLN AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. – In 2021 alone, America's energy sector, power plants, food supply, water supply, health care, law enforcement and defense sector have all come under cyberattack.Cyberattacks threaten our key infrastructure almost daily, and the National Guard plays an important role in

  • Women Airforce Service Pilots and their Fight for Veteran Status

    On the evening of August 23, 1943, a pilot named Mabel Rawlinson died in a fiery crash in the North Carolina swamplands near Fort Davis. Unbeknownst to her, she was doing night exercises in an aircraft that another pilot previously flagged for engine troubles.[1] In a separate incident, when a woman

  • Space Domain Awareness as a Strategic Counterweight

    This paper examines the role of space domain awareness (SDA) as a strategic counterweight to potential adversary and competitor actions in space. It argues that awareness of the space environment is fundamental to maintaining and protecting U.S. interests in outer space. The U.S., however, has been

  • Between China or Climate: DOD Tackling Both

    The Defense Department doesn't face a choice between focusing on state actors or significant transnational challenges such as climate change, Dr. Colin Kahl, the undersecretary of defense for policy said.

  • Racism IS a National Security Issue

    The US military, which I was proud to serve for 22 years on active duty, works hard every day to overcome shortfalls and get better. Every training sortie, every field exercise, every shipboard drill, is an attempt to identify and overcome flaws, in order to make the individual or team better and

  • Competition With China- PLA Overall Organization and Personnel

    This is the second in CASI's "Competition With China" video series.  This new video series helps Airmen better understand the strategic competition with China broadly, and takes a deep look at many of the military and security aspects of that competition. CASI uses source documents to research and

  • SCARS conducts first operational vulnerability scan

    A U.S. Air Force team in Orlando recently conducted a cyber-security scan on an A-10 Thunderbolt simulator at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz., in the first remote operational vulnerability scan of an Air Force aircraft simulator.

  • Current Operations

    Lt. Gen. Richard Scobee, chief of the Air Force Reserve and commander of the Air Force Reserve Command, and Chief Master Sgt. Timothy White,  Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of Air Force Reserve and Command Chief Master Sergeant of Air Force Reserve Command, update our Reserve Citizen Airmen on

  • 16th Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) vice commander visits 363d ISR Wing

    Colonel Eric Mack, 363d Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing commander, greets Maj. Gen. David Gaedecke, 16th Air Force (Air Forces Cyber) vice commander, during an immersion tour, Oct. 29, 2021 at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia. During his tour, Gaedecke received a “State of the