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3 Lessons the Army Is Taking From U.S. Cyber Command

Mon, 11/26/2018 - 7:52am

3 Lessons the Army Is Taking From U.S. Cyber Command by Mark Pomerleau - Fifth Domain

For the last two years, U.S. Cyber Command ran pilot programs that focused on supporting operations in Iraq and Syria. Now, the U.S. Army is taking lessons from those experiments and applying them to tactical operations.

The service has undergone a series of pilots to test what cyber capabilities brigade commanders should have at the tactical edge.

Part of this effort comes as Cyber Command has been engaged in under Joint Task Force-Ares, the anti-ISIS cyber offensive that is supporting ground commanders in Iraq and Syria as part of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve.

“The lessons learned from JTF-Ares speak to really three things,” Brig. Gen. Jennifer Buckner, director of cyber within the Army’s G-3/5/7, told Fifth Domain in a November interview…

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