Cyber News

  • Mission Defense Team working to achieve IOC

    Franklin D. Kramer, former assistant secretary of defense, wrote in the Cyberpower and National Security publication that the United States must create an effective national and international strategic framework for the development and use of cyber as part of an overall national security

  • 108th Wing stands up Mission Defense Team

    The New Jersey Air National Guard's 108th Wing is standing up a Mission Defense Team on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J.Mission Defense Teams are the result of the Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I), which is a plan to move communications squadrons away from Information Technology (IT) service

  • Mission Defense Team amps training capabilities

    Thanks to AFWERX squadron innovation funds, the 910th Communications Squadron’s Mission Defense Team was able to build its own replica cyber vulnerability and hunt-kit for training.

  • 97th cyber warriors perform first MDT exercise

    The 97th Communications Squadron used its recently built cyber-training range for their Mission Defense Team to participate in its first cyber defense exercise on Sept. 30,2021. This exercise was in partnership with the U.S. Air National Guard’s 229th Cyberspace Operation Squadron from Vermont. The