{"id":31781,"date":"2019-10-15T20:39:27","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T20:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/10\/15\/how-the-army-must-reenvision-integrating-cyber-tools\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:16:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:16:53","slug":"how-the-army-must-reenvision-integrating-cyber-tools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2019\/10\/15\/how-the-army-must-reenvision-integrating-cyber-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Army must (re)envision integrating cyber tools"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once reserved only for the highest levels of the military, cyberspace is now becoming part of the operating environment for all commanders \u2014 from the squad to corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Commanders are now recognizing that cyber has to be integrated with traditional ground operations, which means they will need to be able to understand and visualize that environment in order to plan operations and maneuver within it alongside physical troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cyber \u201chas to be integrated into traditional kinetic mission command-type activities,\u201d Chris Valentino, vice president of global cyber solutions for Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, told C4ISRNET in a phone interview during the AUSA annual conference Oct. 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the Army <\/a>and other services<\/a> moving toward consolidating related capabilities under the umbrella of information warfare, these integrated capabilities have to be able to provide the requisite sensing and analytics to create useful common operating pictures or situational awareness and understanding of the different environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Army, in fact, is expected to release a request for information for a program called Cyber Situational Understanding, a command post tool that will help commanders envision the cyber environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\t