The Army announced a pair of new pilots surrounding its cyber workforce.
In regard to operational cyber forces, Frost said of the 41 cyber mission teams that the Army provides to Cyber Command as part of the 133-team total, 30 of those have reached full operational capability, with 11 teams at initial operational capability. The cyber mission force as a whole reached IOC in October this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Frost asserted the Army will likely be early in meeting the 2018 cyber mission force deadline to become\u00a0fully operational.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“As teams are built, the Army is building them to initial operational capability and then putting them right into the fight, in contact in cyberspace,” said Brig. Gen. J.P. McGee, deputy commanding general for operations at Army Cyber Command. As soon as the teams are created, they are put into operational use, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
The majority of the effort against the Islamic State group in cyberspace is offensive, McGee explained, but there is a defensive aspect that supports deployed forces by ensuring their networks remain secure. Cyber forces are both deployed in theater and remotely conduct operations from within the United States, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the DoD information network, or DoDIN, is a global network, its defense is Cyber Command’s No. 1 mission. The “defense in depth” mission of protecting this network from adversaries is something the services do in conjunction with Joint Force Headquarters-DoDIN, the defensive operational arm of Cyber Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We tend to get geographically bound, but in the cyber domain, the logical layer has no geographic boundary,” she said.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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