“Mostly it was their capability and we just augmented with some of our Cyber Mission Force capabilities,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pontius added that roughly four more experiments are expected over the next 10-12 months, including another at the JRTC, one at the National Training Center and another at an upcoming Army warfighting assessment event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ronald Pontius, deputy to the commanding general at Army Cyber Command.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n Photo Credit: Rob Curtis\/Staff<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n “That’s going to help inform the Army, do we need to make changes in force structure? Maybe, maybe not. Do we need to make adjustments in doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures? How do we really achieve effects for unified land operations?” Pontius said. “It’s to try to think through, starting down at the brigade combat team. And what does it mean at the corps division of the combat team, doing integrated cyberspace operations? How do we bring in the signal piece, the cyber piece, the information operations, the electronic warfare \u2013 all the planning and executing of operations? Offensive operations, defensive operations \u2013 how do you integrate cyber into those?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The exercises are taking place as the Army continues to build its portion of U.S. Cyber Command’s Cyber Mission Forces, for which each military service supplying troops. Eventually the Army will have 1,900 military and civilian troops in the CMF, including 41 teams that will reach full operational capability by the end of fiscal 2017. So far, 25 of those teams have reached initial operating capability, Pontius said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eventually, those teams will be joined by 11 more from the Army National Guard and 10 more from the Army Reserves, according to Pontius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Army is planning a series of experiments in integrating cyber operations with conventional combat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":63103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":10,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[10,16],"tags":[],"coauthors":[2772],"class_list":["post-21376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber","category-it-networks"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"G2DDVAJ5XFCNHLJUR3PBYWBW5I","arc_canonical_url":"\/2015\/07\/10\/army-experiments-now-underway-that-integrate-cyber-and-land-operations\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/635721412679962145-20140505-isr-conf2014062jpg.jpg\")