Jonathan Fujiwara

Systems and operations have become more dependent on interconnected electronics and data. As that dependence grows, so does the need for mission assurance in the face of adversarial cyber operations. The authors offer ways to help wings assure their missions despite cyber attacks, focusing on how wings can maintain situational awareness, defend their systems, and respond to and recover from attacks to survive and operate when under cyber attack.

This report presents an examination of ways the Department of the Air Force can develop, employ, and integrate non-kinetic capabilities intended to influence adversaries and other actors in competition and conflict.

Section 1652 of the fiscal year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act tasks the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to perform a zero-based review (ZBR)--a detailed review rather than a simple comparison with previous size or budget--of its cybersecurity and information technology workforces. The ZBR process described in this report constitutes a transparent, repeatable process with which DoD can conduct ZBRs across the DoD cyber enterprise.