{"id":19905,"date":"2020-10-30T18:20:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T18:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2020\/10\/30\/cyber-warriors-are-getting-new-teammates-information-operators\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:13:34","slug":"cyber-warriors-are-getting-new-teammates-information-operators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/information-warfare\/2020\/10\/30\/cyber-warriors-are-getting-new-teammates-information-operators\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber warriors are getting new teammates: information operators"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 The military is working to have information operations specialists work alongside cyber operators as a way to have greater impact in what defense officials call the information environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While much of the influence and information operations perpetrated in recently years \u2013 including during the 2016 presidential election \u2013 seem revolutionary, officials argue they are part of an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/smr\/information-warfare\/2020\/07\/23\/memes-the-pandemic-and-the-new-tactics-of-information-warfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">old playbook, which now has a larger reach with the speed and reach of the internet<\/a>. As a result, cyberspace becomes the vehicle to deliver these operations, though academics have been careful not to characterize them as cyber operations but rather cyber-enabled influence operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But now, as the military looks to thwart such activity from adversaries in the cyber realm \u2013 and conduct its own information operations \u2013 it needs specialists in information, for which cyber operators don\u2019t typically conduct.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve actually opened up the aperture over the last couple of years with really working hard to figure out how we integrate the information operations component,\u201d Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, commander of Army Cyber Command said during an NDIA hosted virtual event Oct. 28. \u201cAs we have conducted offensive operations in support of the combatant commanders that we support and U.S. Cyber Command, we really initially were conducting very exquisite cyber operations and it would create sometimes great effect, but we really observed that there was something missing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Army Cyber Command has been in the midst of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/smr\/information-warfare\/2020\/07\/28\/us-army-cyber-chief-outlines-ten-year-plan-for-information-warfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">transformation for the last 18 months<\/a> to evolve beyond cyber operations and have added electronic warfare and information operations to its purview. Instead, leaders are moving toward what they now call <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/information-warfare\/2020\/09\/29\/out-information-warfare-in-information-advantage\/\" target=\"_blank\">information advantage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re using cyberspace to reach out through the electromagnetic spectrum to either deliver content or deliver effects,&#8221; Fogarty said. \u201cWhat we\u2019re seeing is we\u2019re able to greatly amplify the effects of what had been before just a cyberspace operation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fogarty described integrating the various \u201ctribes\u201d of cyber operators, information operations and psychological operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re not trying to turn every cyber operator into an information operator, psychological operations operator. What we\u2019ve found, the real benefit is bringing all three together,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This has manifested itself with work his force does for the Information Warfare Task Force in Afghanistan supporting Operation Resolute Support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, officials have described a variety of cross functional teams Army Cyber Command has created within its new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/cyber\/2020\/09\/04\/us-army-cyber-command-to-take-more-direct-role-in-offensive-influence-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\">Information Warfare Operations Center<\/a>. The goal of these cross functional teams is to sprinkle information related capabilities across the combatant commands they support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The creation of these teams and the integration of information operators and electronic warfare personnel is part of Army Cyber Command\u2019s overall transformation. These personnel will be spread across and aid the cyber operators working beneath cyber teams Army provides and commands beneath U.S. Cyber Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe challenges comes when people define their jobs as only cyber and not like \u2018this is the mission\u2019,\u201d Ed Cardon, the former commander of Army Cyber Command and the first commander of Joint Task Force Ares \u2013 the cyber offensive against ISIS \u2013 said during a virtual event hosted by AFCEA\u2019s Alamo chapter and Information Professionals Association Oct. 29. \u201cSometime it may be cyber heavy, sometimes it may be IO heavy, sometimes it may be EW heavy, but they all have a role. The problem comes when one tries to dominate over the other and it creates, I call, the human factors problem, which actually affects mission accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said during the ISIS operations, military leaders were able to build a team focused on the sole mission of bringing down ISIS. They weren\u2019t worried about branches or specialties. Joint Task Force Ares is held up as one of the key examples in DoD for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/information-warfare\/2020\/06\/18\/what-cyber-commands-isis-operations-means-for-the-future-of-information-warfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">integrating cyber and information effects <\/a>to confuse and frustrate the terrorist entity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The other service cyber components have also articulated a similar integrated approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe team construct is critical and it\u2019s also vital in the synergistic approach of integrating all domains \u2026 it\u2019s not just an individual, it\u2019s not an individual operator,\u201d Vice Adm. Ross Myers, commander of Fleet Cyber Command\/10th Fleet said during the same event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Gen. Timothy Haugh, commander of 16th Air Force\/Air Forces Cyber, the Air Force\u2019s information warfare command, said leaders want to create an information warfare culture in which everyone understands how everything comes together to produce an outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou need experts across every discipline, we don\u2019t want everybody to try to make one of each or try and make one standard. It really has to be deep expertise in some of these areas and how we bring it together also becomes part of the professional development,\u201d he said at the same event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haugh has said that his force seeks to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/information-warfare\/2020\/07\/20\/the-new-ways-the-military-is-fighting-against-information-warfare-tactics\/\" target=\"_blank\">expose disinformation<\/a> as a means of combating it on a daily basis while also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c4isrnet.com\/show-reporter\/ausa\/2020\/10\/16\/weaponized-truth-how-the-us-military-plans-to-compete-in-the-crowded-information-space\/\" target=\"_blank\">injecting truth<\/a> through a variety of means.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, he said, the foundation is data in determining the best way to expose or combat that misinformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe foundation of all of this still comes back to what data and 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