Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber

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DISA Accelerates Cloud For Warfighters For All Domain DISA, using automation, is reducing the time it takes to deploy mission applications in DoD cloud from a year, months, or weeks to hours.

JADC2: SDA To Upgrade Satellite Laser Links The Transport Layer will form a 'mesh network' of communications/data relay satellites, linking all DoD command and control networks, to enable JADC2.

Artificial Intelligence, Lawyers And Laws Of War In Afghanistan and Iraq, a military lawyer was always at the table for strike decisions, said the chief of Army Futures Command. In future wars, there may not be time to go around the table.

Huge Navy Exercise Helps Admirals Decide How to Remake Fleet "We are going to do a live-fire offensive exercise," Rear Adm. Jim Aiken, Carrier Strike Group 3 commander told reporters Tuesday. "We are going to use the unmanned surface, unmanned air, and manned air and surface to provide a targeting solution."

JADC2 Strategy Hits SecDef's Desk 'In Days;' Tech Demos Already Planned The first real-world effort "to stress test our ideas" for implementing JADC2 is coming up within the next two to three months, J6 Director Lt. Gen. Dennis Crall says.

US Agencies, Defense Companies Hacked Via VPNs Threat actors are targeting one newly discovered and three previously known vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure enterprise VPNs, according to a CISA emergency directive and alert, as well as blog posts by FireEye and Ivanti. "There is no indication the identified backdoors were introduced through a supply chain compromise of the company's network or software deployment process," FireEye noted.

White House Winds Down SolarWinds, Exchange Cyber Teams "The innovations… and the lessons learned from these responses will be used to improve future unified, whole of government responses to significant cyber incidents," the White House says.

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