{"id":26608,"date":"2019-07-31T18:23:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-31T18:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/07\/31\/how-the-army-will-approach-cyber-10-years-from-now\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:19:25","slug":"how-the-army-will-approach-cyber-10-years-from-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/it-networks\/2019\/07\/31\/how-the-army-will-approach-cyber-10-years-from-now\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Army will approach cyber 10 years from now"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Army Cyber Institute (ACI) at West Point serves as the service\u2019s think tank, helping the Army identify and address key cyber problems to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Balancing the priorities of the operational force and Army Cyber Command, the ACI uses a variety of research projects and even internships with cadets to push concepts out into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One effort the ACI\u2019s 70-person team is undertaking is called threat-casting \u2014 an attempt to calculate upcoming threats to the United States in the cyber and information environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe take a look and we use a variety of people, diverse populations, diverse ideas, get into small groups, come up with threats of what might happen 10 years out and then we look and work backwards to identify the flags and the gates that might happen on the way to that particular future,\u201d Col. Andrew Hall, director of ACI, told Fifth Domain during a July visit to West Point, explaining that a flag is something they can see, whereas a gate is something that can be controlled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These threat-casting events \u2014 one of which took place in the early summer, while another will take place in September \u2014 seek to envision a future person in a place with a particular problem, as opposed to evolving the operating procedures of certain threat actors today 10 years into the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA particular person is in San Francisco and their personal health robot has been hacked … the on-demand medicines that are being created every morning for this person have been hacked,” Hall offered as an example. \u201cThen you build all the way back and say how this would happen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ultimately, the threat-casting events help to frame the decision space for the operational commanders, namely Lt. Gen. Stephen Fogarty, who\u2019s in charge of Army Cyber Command.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re looking at what are we worried about in 2030, we hope to be able to have a good answer for [Gen. Fogarty] on some of the things we need to work on,\u201d Hall said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ACI also runs the Jack Voltaic series, which are exercises that test local governments in their ability to respond to critical infrastructure cyber incidents.<\/p>\n\n\n\t