http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/503204/cyber-the-new-red-flag-battleground.aspx
By Senior Airman Jette Carr
Air Force News Service
October 02, 2014
NELLIS Air Force Base, Nev. (AFNS) -- The internet is a battleground, and
information is the prize. News reports of a shopping retailer losing
control of customers’ digital data and an internet browser being
compromised are some of the recent evidence of the constant cyber-threat
present in the World Wide Web.
The digital war over information is one Air Force cyber specialists fight
on a daily basis. To give these Airmen an upper-hand against their online
adversaries, the 24th Air Force takes part in several training exercises,
to include Red Flag.
Red Flag is large scale combat training exercise held multiple times per
year and hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, that gives air, space
and now cyberspace service members from the U.S. and allied nations the
ability to come together to train as a team. Air, Space and Cyber domains
are integrated between tactical and operational level participants during
Red Flag at the Combined Air Operations Center – Nellis (CAOC-N)/505th
Test Squadron. Through the exercise, each organization learns to work
together to form a stronger total force, while also being shown how their
individual talents fit into the bigger picture.
Cyber first played a part in the Red Flag exercise series in 2007, said
Daryl Crissman, the 318th Cyber Operations Group, Detachment 2 chief of
weapons and tactics. At first their initial involvement was limited and
only made up a small portion of the simulated mission. Over the past two
to three years, however, Cyber has made measurable gains in becoming a
fully integrated component of the exercise.
“Our mission is to train the next generation of cyber warriors and we look
at what we call the full spectrum … defensive and offensive operations,”
said Michael Homsy, the 24th Air Force exercise planner and cyber range
coordinator. “We have several teams that are being developed … teams that
are designed to go after the adversary and their infrastructure and
degrade their ability to launch their capabilities against us, as well as
defend critical infrastructure as it pertains to our country.”
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