Weekly Briefing: Defense Networks & Cyber

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

News: NSA Certifies Smallest, Lightest Fast Ethernet Encryption Module

Presented by General Dynamics Mission Systems

CryptoMod Update:  New small form factor advanced cryptographic device approved for use to protect classified voice and data traversing national security systems and platforms at 200 Mb/s throughput.

DoD's Own Bureaucracy Top Barrier To Winning Spectrum Back America's inability to progress beyond "Cold War capabilities" in this "most important environment to modern warfare" follows three EMS strategies over eight years. "They weren't bad strategies," experts agreed, but DoD simply failed to fully implement them. Now GAO is warning the latest strategy, just months old, may face the same fate.

A 'Wake-Up Call' For Defense IT, Comms Supply Chains: ODNI Corell spoke on information and communications tech (ICT) supply chain risks on the same day DARPA and Intel announced a three-year partnership to develop and domestically manufacture new semiconductors for DoD applications.

Pathfinder: Life Without The CAC? [Sponsored] The New York Air National Guard is introducing better high-assurance network authentication – and DoD can too, for its growing telework force.

Lebanon: Donated Helicopters Highlight Close, Continuing US Ties The US just gave the Lebanese Army three Huey II multi-mission helicopters and will also donate six brand new MD-530 light scout attack choppers.

Air Force Culls ABMS Experiment After Budget Cut The sixth ABMS onramp "was going to be in partnership with Australia, and allies and partners, in the Pacific Rim," Air Force Chief Architect Preston Dunlap said, but "just due to the budget constraints, we had to pull the plug on that."

Army's New Aim Is 'Decision Dominance' "Decision dominance … is the ability for a commander to sense, understand, decide, act, and assess faster and more effectively than any adversary," said Army Futures Command chief Gen. John "Mike" Murray.

Army, Air Force 'Squarely Focused' on Project Convergence 21 Wargame: Generals The task is mammoth and entails integrating "millions of lines of code," according to Air Force Brig. Gen. Jeffery Valenzia. But "with innovation comes opportunity," Army Brig. Gen. Robert Collins observed. "Speed is what will really give us that overmatch against adversaries," said Maj. Gen. Peter Gallagher.

Why Was The SolarWinds Campaign So Difficult to Detect? Only after months of investigation by nearly 100 highly skilled digital forensics experts did FireEye discover the malicious "implant" in the most unlikely place. We break it all down in plain language.

Navy's New Unmanned Plan Short on Specifics, But Big On Ambition "There is an underlying commitment to move as fast as you can… because the pacing threat is constantly moving and accelerating," said Lt. Gen. Eric Smith, commander of Marine Corps Combat Development Command.

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