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Today’s Airmen are going to have to embrace artificial intelligence the same way Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force David R. Wolfe learned to love desktop computers and email in the 1990s, the senior enlisted Airman said Sept. 14 during AFA’s Air, Space & Cyber conference.
AI companies are sounding alarms, but the Trump administration isn’t acting on them.
DOD must use “the fantastically skilled people that we have in a much more effective way,” Kirsten Davies said.
Lt. Gen. Paul Stanton told an audience at the annual Billington CyberSecurity Summit that the ways in which an adversary could employ cyber agents is “mind-boggling in terms of the complexity.”
“It’s about driving big outcomes and giving the secretary and the president options, more options. We want to move away from things that look like persistent engagement,” according to Brig. Gen. William Wilburn, deputy principal cyber advisor for the DoD.
Input from contractors is expected to inform the department's reforms to the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification program.
Tasks that take days or weeks will be done "much faster," says the agency’s cybersecurity chief.
The agency’s Center for Cyber Intelligence built a “flawless intelligence picture,” Michael Ellis said.
The proliferation of AI is forcing the USAF to rethink cyber defense, and a new regional defense pact could shake up arms sales in the Middle East.
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The short-term package pushes the sunset date for the bedrock cyber legislation to Dec. 11.
From AI adoption and agentic systems to Zero Trust and cyber resilience, Breaking Defense’s latest eBook brings together key reporting from DoDIIS 2026 on the technologies and strategies shaping the future of defense intelligence.
German defense firms are creating industrial partnerships with American companies, deepening the transatlantic defense production relationship.
Just over a year ago, in July 2025, the Air Force established a dedicated office on the Air Staff for communications/cyber functions, separate from the intelligence directorate it had long been attached to. Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Phillips, Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighter Communications and Cyber Systems, recently sat down with Air & Space Forces Magazine to discuss his goals and priorities.
The department is also looking into data protection measures that are designed to advance its migration to post-quantum cryptography.
“When people say, ‘Hey, we’re at an inflection point,’ we are absolutely at an inflection point,” 16th Air Force commander Lt. Gen. Thomas Hensley said of AI threats to the network.
Shankar, who previously served as a strategic advisor to the department via the BOND program, was officially sworn-in Aug. 24.
EDGE said that the center will provide “specialised services” to both the Brazilian army and federal institutions, including for training, cyber incident response, and the “development of advanced cyber defence capabilities and solutions.”
A hacking group used the tools to target networks belonging to NASA, the Federal Reserve, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Senate and the departments of Energy, Justice and Health and Human Services.
The Israeli firm’s new C-TEK product triages data from mobile phones, SIM cards, computers, drones and other portable media.
Four of the five people named in the cyber action were also charged last week in the Justice Department’s expanded Mabna Institute case.
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“Over the past five months, the teams have really been able to hone their skills based on the work they’re doing inside of a live environment and I think we’re getting better and better every day because of that,” the ARCYBER commander said.
“We need help in implementing agents securely, so that it doesn't inadvertently increase our attack surface,” an Army official said. “If we have a bunch of agents roaming around, and they're vulnerable, that just made it worse because if the adversaries attack our agents, now we're exposed.”
Hung Cao warned sailors, Marines and Navy civilians about a "deliberate effort to gather intelligence, test our defenses, disrupt our operations, and intimidate our force."
The answer is to modernize accountability through an enterprise model that combines a formalized independent assessment, continuous external monitoring, and shared remediation support where small suppliers cannot reasonably carry the burden alone.
Task Force Lexington houses all of Army Cyber Command’s AI efforts, including an AI “red team.”
“Each and every day, we sit down as a group, we figure out the guardrails we're going to apply to these agents, [and] we ask ourselves: Is it risk that a human should be answering, or is it risk that an agent can answer?” Lt. Gen. Christopher Eubank said. “And right now, today, humans are all responsible for risk. We have not turned any agents loose to assume risk on their own behalf.”
Prosecutors say the Mabna Institute stole 31.5 terabytes of academic data and breached email accounts at U.S. agencies and companies.