Solarium commissioners: Congress needs to review DOD's cyber forces

摘要

Members of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission are urging Congress to consider expanding the Pentagon's Defend Forward strategy to review the current state of military cyber capabilities and incorporate new ways to engage with the defense industrial base. "The conventional and nuclear technologically advanced military capabilities that form the bedrock of America's military advantage also create cyber vulnerabilities that our adversaries could exploit to their own benefit," commissioner Patrick Murphy said at a July 30 House Armed Services intelligence and emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee hearing. "Whether it is nuclear, conventional or cyber, the United States must be confident that its military capabilities will work as intended." Murphy added: "Moreover, across the spectrum of engagement from competition to crisis and conflict, the United States must ensure that it has sufficient cyber forces to accomplish our strategic objectives in and through cyberspace. This demands sufficient capability, capacity and streamlined decision-making processes enabling rapid and effective cyber response options to impose meaningful costs against adversaries and to respond to adversary action."