Air Force mission defense teams : not your grandparents communications

Abstract

Air Force core mission areas are vulnerable to nefarious cyber activities and senior Air Force leadership has impressed upon the Air Force to rapidly strengthen organic defensive cyber operations at the base level. Adversaries have proven to deny, degrade and disrupt Air Force weapon systems that enable (1) air and space superiority; (2) intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; (3) rapid global mobility; (4) global strike; and (5) command and control. What organic defensive cyber capability do base level communications unit have to guarantee mission assurance? This paper examines the effectiveness of Air Force Mission Defense Teams (MDT) that are designed to deliver mission assurance through base-level proactive and persistent defensive cyber operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 27, 2019
Accession Number
AD1107331

Entities

People

  • Erick O Welcome

Organizations

  • Air War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Advanced Persistent Threat
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Facilities
  • Command And Control
  • Commerce
  • Computer Networks
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Cyberwarfare
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Employment
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Military Science
  • Network Protocols
  • Students
  • Training
  • United States
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Cybersecurity.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space