Cyber Power Potential of the Army's Reserve Component PDF Download

Author: Isaac R. Porche, III
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ISBN: 9780833094803
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Describes the availability of personnel with cyber skills in the private sector and the number of Army reserve component soldiers available to support the Army's cyber mission needs.

Author: Joseph A. Papenfus
Publisher:
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Category : Career development
Languages : en
Pages : 25

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"As cyberspace continues to play an important role in projection of military power, in an environment where the mission of tomorrow is ill defined and budgets are becoming constrained, there is an increasing need for a Total Force (AC/RC) concept. The existing and emerging requirements for Army Cyber Mission Forces (CMF) are currently greater than the Army’s active component has personnel available or trained to support USCYBERCOM and ARCYBER requirements. The Army’s RC is uniquely postured to fill current, midterm and longer-term cyber gap requirements, but it requires planning and investment now in training, development, and integrations of the RC CMF. Although moving cautiously, some of the distinct advantages many Reserve Component (USAR and ARNG) Soldiers have are their ties to the communities, full-time employment in the civilian information technology, and their dispersion across the country. Unlike centrally consolidated Title-10 (AC and USAR) organizations, with Homeland Defense and Defense Support to Civil Authorities requirements with limited authorities under the Posse Comitatus Act, the ARNG units can further assist local and state governmental agencies nationwide to defend critical infrastructure networks. These aspects further make the RC uniquely postured to fill current, midterm and longer-term cyber requirements, but it requires planning and investment now in training, development, and integrations of the RC CMF. This analysis accomplishes this through inspection of policy, current requirements, constructs, mission areas and initiatives for RC forces to determine the benefits or drawbacks to successful generation of a Total Force (AC/RC) CMF"--Abstract.

Author: Eldred K. Ramtahal
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Category : Computer security
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"The United States has enjoyed an unprecedented superior advantage projecting combatcredible forces. General Darren McDew, former commander, United States Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM), and a foremost authority on Power Projection, can attest to the United States' Strategic strength and reach with its Power Projection capabilities. In his words,"No other nation in the world can compete with the United States in conventional warfare because we plan, secure, and distribute combat capability so well." USTRANSCOM, a Unified Command, a global combatant command with functional responsibilities for air, land, and sea transportation for the Department of Defense, ultimately delivering national objectives on behalf of the President and Secretary of Defense." These national objectives are achievable by, with and through the use of the critical infrastructure of Army Power Projection Platforms on military installations. A Power Projection Platform is an "Army installation that strategically deploy one or more high priority active component brigades or larger and/or mobilize and deploy high priority Army reserve component units." These installations enabled the Army to mobilize rapidly, generated, and project formidable combat credible forces anywhere in the world to face potential adversaries. Power Projection Platforms are central to Army Forces' deployment to fight and win the nation's wars should other deterrence options fail. Readiness is the Army's number one priority, and installations are essential, "The Army's assistant chief of installation management (ACSIM) ensures readiness by establishing policies, synchronizing programs, and providing resources for installation infrastructure and services" A risk to Readiness and the critical infrastructure at Army installations has surfaced because of 21st Century digital interconnectivity, improved technology all connected by the internet. The U.S. now faces a cyber threat that erodes America's Strategic advantage to project combat power and achieve National Defense Strategy and Objectives. This threat is compound because the Army's power projection infrastructure relies heavily on commercial organizations in private industry. Without the appropriate deterrence measures, these organizations are susceptible to attacks below the level of armed conflict, including cyber and utility sabotage. Because of the growing threat of near-peer nation-states, rogue nations' and terrorist organizations, defending critical military and civilian network infrastructure is significant if the Army seeks to retain its competitive advantage. This paper examines the critical infrastructure, vulnerabilities, threats, policies, gaps, and authorities necessary to protect the Army's Power Projection Platforms (PPP) from cyber-intrusions. Finally, it will make recommendations on training, governance and legislation, responsibilities required to defend the critical infrastructure that underwrites the Army Power Projection Platforms."--Introduction.

Author: U S Military
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781086005660
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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As cyberspace continues to play an important role in projection of military power, in an environment where the mission of tomorrow is ill defined and budgets are becoming constrained, there is an increasing need for a Total Force (AC/RC) concept. The existing and emerging requirements for Army Cyber Mission Forces (CMF) are currently greater than the Army's active component has personnel available or trained to support USCYBERCOM and ARCYBER requirements. The Army's RC is uniquely postured to fill current, midterm and longer-term cyber gap requirements, but it requires planning and investment now in training, development, and integrations of the RC CMF. Although moving cautiously, some of the distinct advantages many Reserve Component (USAR and ARNG) Soldiers have are their ties to the communities, full-time employment in the civilian information technology, and their dispersion across the country. Unlike centrally consolidated Title-10 (AC and USAR) organizations, with Homeland Defense and Defense Support to Civil Authorities requirements with limited authorities under the Posse Comitatus Act, the ARNG units can further assist local and state governmental agencies nationwide to defend critical infrastructure networks. These aspects further make the RC uniquely postured to fill current, midterm and longer-term cyber requirements, but it requires planning and investment now in training, development, and integrations of the RC CMF. This analysis accomplishes this through inspection of policy, current requirements, constructs, mission areas and initiatives for RC forces to determine the benefits or drawbacks to successful generation of a Total Force (AC/RC) CMF.This compilation includes a reproduction of the 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

Author: Christopher R. Quick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyberspace operations (Military science)
Languages : en
Pages : 12

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"This web-exclusive Land Warfare Paper advocates training servicemembers in the RC to respond to cyber threats and to assist in building cyber defenses for the Army. Because these servicemembers are already in place and would not require mobilization and because many of them bring cyber capabilities from their civilian jobs, giving them an education in cyber warfare would be an economical investment that would bolster the Army's capability. Building an 'operational cyberspace reserve' would provide agile and adaptive leaders and would integrate experienced network operators who use innovation and initiative to support Army and U.S. Cyber Command requirements"--Publisher's web site.

Author: Isaac Porche
Publisher: Rand Corporation
ISBN: 0833078844
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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The U.S. Army is studying ways to apply its cyber power and is reconsidering doctrinally defined areas that are integral to cyberspace operations. An examination of network operations, information operations, and several other, more focused areas across the U.S. military found significant overlap and potential boundary progression that could inform the development of future Army doctrine.

Author: U. S. Army War College
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544057170
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The Information in Warfare Group of the U.S. Army War College is proud to publish "China's Cyber Power and America's National Security" by Colonel Jayson M. Spade. This effort represents the first research paper published outside the annual "Information as Power" student anthology as a stand-alone monograph. There are several reasons for this distinction. Spade's work is exceptionally well-researched and written as evidenced by its receipt of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) writing award in 2011. Additionally, the topic of cyber power and national security remains a wicked U.S. national security problem that requires thoughtful and scholarly discourse toward a possible solution. To that end, Spade masterfully pushes the body of knowledge forward in this paper. Originally submitted as a Strategy Research Project, this monograph examines the growth of Chinese cyber power and their known and demonstrated capabilities for offensive, defensive and exploitive computer network operations. Comparing China's capacity and potential to the United States' current efforts for cyber security, Spade highlights the degree to which the People's Republic of China's cyber power poses a threat to United States' national security and offers proposals to improve future U.S. policy for cyber security and defense. Like the "Information as Power" student anthology, this paper provides a resource for U.S. Army War College graduates, senior military officers, and national security practitioners concerned with the information element of power. It is indicative of importance of the Army as a learning organization that values soldier-scholars like Colonel Spade.

Author: Thea Riebe
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 365841667X
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are important to human, national, and even international security. IT research, artifacts, and knowledge that can be applied in military and civilian contexts, used as part of weapon systems, or cause significant harm are referred to as dual-use. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, cybersecurity, and open source intelligence (OSINT) raise questions about their dual-use risks. But how can dual-use of such disparate technologies be assessed? Case studies are still lacking on how to assess dual-use ICT and how to enable sensitive and responsible dual-use design. To address the research gap, this cumulative dissertation uses Technology Assessment (TA) as an epistemological framework to bring together approaches of Critical Security Studies (CSS) as well as Value Sensitive Design (VSD) from the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). As a result, the dissertation systematizes the dual-use risks and scenarios of the selected ICTs and derives organizational and design implications.

Author: United States Government Us Army
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781074155476
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56

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This manual, Army Regulation AR 25-2 Information Management: Army Cybersecurity April 2019, establishes the Army Cybersecurity Program and sets forth the mission, responsibilities, and policies to ensure uniform implementation of public law and Office of Management and Budget, Committee on National Security Systems, and Department of Defense issuances for protecting and safeguarding Army information technology, to include the Army-managed portion of the Department of Defense Information Network, (hereafter referred to as information technology) and information in electronic format (hereafter referred to as information). Information technology includes infrastructure, services, and applications used directly by the Army or for the Army by legal agreements or other binding contracts. This regulation applies to the Regular Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, to include all Headquarters, Department of the Army staff, Army commands, Army Service component commands, direct reporting units, all other Army agencies, and all personnel, authorized users and privileged users, unless otherwise stated. It applies to all Army information technology and information in electronic format at all classification levels; and Special Access Program and Sensitive Activity information systems except when handling sensitive compartmented information. Nothing in this regulation alters or supersedes the existing authorities and policies of the Department of Defense or the Director of National Intelligence regarding the protection of sensitive compartmented information as directed by Executive Order 12333. The Director of National Intelligence has delegated authority for all Army Sensitive Compartmented Information systems to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-2.

Author: Colin S. Gray
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cyber intelligence (Computer security)
Languages : en
Pages : 88

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Cyber is now recognized as an operational domain, but the theory that should explain it strategically is, for the most part, missing. It is one thing to know how to digitize; it is quite another to understand what digitization means strategically. The author maintains that, although the technical and tactical literature on cyber is abundant, strategic theoretical treatment is poor. He offers four conclusions: (1) cyber power will prove useful as an enabler of joint military operations; (2) cyber offense is likely to achieve some success, and the harm we suffer is most unlikely to be close to lethally damaging; (3) cyber power is only information and is only one way in which we collect, store, and transmit information; and, (4) it is clear enough today that the sky is not falling because of cyber peril. As a constructed environment, cyberspace is very much what we choose to make it. Once we shed our inappropriate awe of the scientific and technological novelty and wonder of it all, we ought to have little trouble realizing that as a strategic challenge we have met and succeeded against the like of networked computers and their electrons before. The whole record of strategic history says: Be respectful of, and adapt for, technical change, but do not panic.--Publisher description.