Cyber News

  • 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

  • Air Force Civilian Health Promotion Services

    Civilian Health Promotion Services (CHPS) is a mobile worksite wellness program providing tools and resources for the civilian workforce to enhance health status and improve overall physical well-being. All CHPS services are free and available to the federal civilian workforce, with most also

  • Historic deployment of cyber forces with Bomber Task Force Europe

    ROYAL AIR FORCE FAIRFORD, United Kingdom – In a historic deployment, a U.S. Cyber Command Cyber Protection Team defended critical data on B-1B Lancers assigned to Dyess Air Force Base’s 9th Expeditionary Bomb Squadron during the Bomber Task Force Europe mission within U.S. European Command’s theater

  • 422d Communications Squadron Strengthens Readiness

    Airmen from the 422d Communications Squadron proved their adaptability by responding to a simulated network outage and then restoring the connection which links RAF Croughton and RAF Barford St. John, Nov. 1, 2021.