The Air Force wants to start a new program to develop a series of offensive cyber tools, according to the White House\u2019s budget request for fiscal year 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project will provide advanced cyber warfare capabilities to the Air Force\u2019s cyber mission force personnel, who work on projects for U.S. Cyber Command. In the service\u2019s budget books, the program is named Cyber Mission Force Foundational Tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cActivities within the program deliver operations-ready cyberspace superiority capabilities through the research, development, testing, evaluation, accelerated prototyping, demonstration and fielding of cyber technologies and capabilities,” Air Force research and development budget documents state. \u201cThis program enables Combatant Commanders the ability to operate in and through cyberspace to manipulate, disrupt, deny, degrade or destroy targeted computers, information systems and networks.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In fiscal 2020, Air Force leaders want the program to expand on past efforts to produce a family of foundational tools, to develop additional tools and software factories and to deliver prototypes that are interoperable with Cyber Command\u2019s architecture. Cyber Command leaders have vowed that the services will no longer develop stove-piped tools or infrastructure for individual service use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The budget documents note that these foundational tools will be incorporated into the Air Force\u2019s Distributed Cyber Warfare Operations portfolio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe DCWO portfolio enables delivery of cyber effects to Combatant Commanders to include cyber operational preparation of the environment, offensive counter-cyber, cyberattack, electronic warfare operations, mission planning, intelligence, cybersecurity products and services and Command and Control\/Situational Awareness (C2SA) tools needed to attack enemy networks, telephony, Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS), command and control systems, and create cyber effects through the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS),\u201d the document state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Budget documents note that the program leverages previous efforts from Cyber Command and the Air Force for foundational tool development and were funded in other programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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