Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber

The latest defense networks & cyber news and analysis from Breaking Defense.

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Loft Orbital's 'Rideshare' Sats: Take An Uber To Space Loft's two satellites are carrying payloads for a Space Development Agency demo, the UAE Space Agency and European commercial satcom firm Eutelsat, among others.

US 'Retains Clear Superiority' In Cyber; China Rising: IISS Study "China is a second-tier cyber power but, given its growing industrial base in digital technology, it is the state best placed to join the US in the first tier," an IISS report says.

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CISA Publishes Cyber 'Bad Practices' The bad practices are aimed especially at — though not limited to — educating critical infrastructure owners and operators. This includes, of course, the defense industrial base and many who support its supply chain — from communications equipment and high-tech capabilities to electrical and mechanical components for military hardware, such as tanks, planes, and ships.

Iranian Nuke Centrifuge Plant Badly Damaged By Drones Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett appeared to hint Thursday — the day after the attack — that Israel may have been involved when he spoke to a graduating ceremony for Israeli Air Force pilots: "Our enemies know — not from statements, but from actions — that we are much more determined and much more clever, and that we do not hesitate to act when it is needed."

First ABMS Buy: KC-46 Pods To Link F-22, F-35 Decision-making software tools and IT infrastructure are next on the agenda for ABMS investment, say senior Air Force officials.

NSA Releases D3FEND To Improve Cyber Defenses, Info Sharing While ATT&CK focuses on standardizing the way cyber warriors understand and talk about offensive cyber, D3FEND focuses on common defensive measures.

Joint 'Strategic Directives' Set Requirements For All Domain Ops The Joint Warfighting Concept "is an excellent concept, but the concept is just that — it's a concept. That concept is going to drive experimentation, it's going to drive future capabilities and future doctrine, but right now it's just the concept and we're still learning with it," VCJCS Gen. John Hyten says.

Rep. Langevin Presses SecDef On Cyber, EW Priorities "The Department of Defense officially recognizes five domains of warfare," Rep. Langevin said. "For four of those domains, the senior civilian is a service secretary. Cyber has a deputy assistant secretary, which is four rungs lower than the other warfighting domains. Why does this make sense?"

SDA Demos Spotlight Tech Hurdles To JADC2 Backbone Two of the experiments, each involving two satellites, are focused on laser links: one between satellites themselves; the other from satellites to a MQ-9 Reaper drone on the ground.

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