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Recognizing this, the Army\u2019s cyber think tank has staged an ongoing series of exercises looking at how domestic cities respond to major cyber incidents (and what testing the seams reveals about how the local infrastructure cybersecurity can affect overseas deployments).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Jack Voltaic series, put on by the Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at West Point, is now in its third iteration. The next Jack Voltaic is looking not at one city, but at a whole region \u2014 Charleston, South Carolina, to Savannah, Georgia \u2014 and is also plugging into the Army\u2019s Defender 2020 exercise. Defender 2020 will simulate a deployment to Europe and game how quickly Army units in the United States can get all their equipment there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe theory is something happens and you need the forces to go to Europe &#8230; so you\u2019ve got forces that are at Fort Stewart [Georgia] that are going to need to go through Savannah to deploy. You\u2019re involving Savannah and you\u2019re looking at the critical infrastructure that goes from the post to the port [and] the different ways that someone could disrupt the movement,\u201d Col. Andrew Hall, director of ACI, told Fifth Domain during a July visit to West Point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou\u2019re looking at what the attack could be on the city\u2019s infrastructure to delay the arrival of the U.S. forces, because by delaying them a couple of days you\u2019d be able to turn the tide on some activity you were trying to do within Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>The fight to get to the fight<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Overall, the Jack Voltaic series is aimed at empowering the local communities, building them up so they won\u2019t have to rely upon the military to defend them in the case of a massive cyber incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOne of the things that we found is that with us working with our partnerships, we would have access to critical infrastructure with some of the different organizations to look and help figure out how do we defend because it\u2019s much easier to enable a city to defend than to align the Army to defend the city,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In part, Hall said the series and associated research efforts came about as a way for the military to think about how to defend the nation as a whole from a cyber perspective, a top, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/dod\/2019\/03\/01\/should-the-pentagon-help-protect-private-networks\/\" target=_blank>yet challenging priority<\/a> for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/dod\/cybercom\/2019\/07\/25\/what-the-future-holds-for-cyber-command\/\" target=_blank>U.S. Cyber Command<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While such an endeavor might appear to be more under the jurisdiction of a domestic agency, such as the Department of Homeland Security, rather than the Department of Defense, Hall said the unique research mission of ACI enables them to initiate the event as a research project feeding not only into the Defense Department, but also the local government sectors and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe first [Jack Voltaic] we took a look at New York and it was not very tightly tied in to the military department, but we had a lot of first responders and we had some National Guard,\u201d said Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Jack Voltaic 2.0, in Houston, proved more to have more tight integration between civilian and military departments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We got a chance to really work with the National Guard, the governor\u2019s office, as well as [Northern Command] and Army North to see what would happen in Texas,\u201d said Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Col. Douglas Fletcher, the lead planner for Jack Voltaic, said that the public-private partnership involved with the event is critical for ensuring a more holistic cybersecurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s going out so that people don\u2019t see me wearing green and say, \u2018Hey, I\u2019m the government, I\u2019m here to help.\u2019 They see me as Doug Fletcher, somebody who has a vested interest in improving their cyber resiliency,\u201d he told Fifth Domain. \u201cWe\u2019re going to be cyber resilient as a country, we have to be resilient at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fletcher noted that many major cyber exercises stop at the regional level neglecting the smaller scale cities and towns. 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