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14 July 2011. DoD Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace: http://cryptome.org/0005/dod-cyberspace.zip (3.3MB) 13 July 2011. One of the Eyeball Series. DoD Prepares for Global Cyberwar http://www.defense.gov/advisories/advisory.aspx?advisoryid=3367 July 12, 2011 DOD to Announce First Cyberspace Strategy Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III will announce the Department of Defense Strategy for Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC) on Thursday July 14 at 1 p.m. EDT at the National Defense University, Marshall Hall, (Building 62, Room 155), Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C. He will be joined by Gen. James E. Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. A media availability will immediately follow the DSOC announcement. Journalists wishing to attend this event should contact Dave Thomas by e-mail at thomasd2@ndu.edu or 202-685-3140. Media must arrive between 11 a.m. and noon to have sufficient time to set up. Proof of affiliation and drivers license are also required for gate access. Those driving should enter the gate on 2nd Street S.W. to allow time for a vehicle security search. Pedestrians should enter at 4th and P Street S.W. Overview of US Cyber Command: http://www.defense.gov/home/features/2010/0410_cybersec/ http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=61310 Lynn: Cyberspace is the New Domain of Warfare By Cheryl Pellerin American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Oct. 18, 2010 – With the creation of the U.S. Cyber Command in May and last week’s cybersecurity agreement between the departments of Defense and Homeland Security, DOD is ready to add cyberspace to sea, land, air and space as the latest domain of warfare, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said. ... One element of the strategy –- working with Homeland Defense to protect critical military and civilian IT infrastructure -– was put into place Oct. 13, when Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced a new agreement to work together on cybersecurity. The agreement includes a formal mechanism for benefiting from the technical expertise of the National Security Agency, or NSA, which is responsible for protecting national security systems, collecting related foreign intelligence, and enabling network warfare. ... Lynn laid out a draft cyberstrategy in the September/October issue of “Foreign Affairs” magazine. He said DOD is working to finalize the strategy. ... U.S. technological advantages are a critical part of the cyberstrategy and the Pentagon already is working with industry and with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to put these to work, Lynn said. As part of a public-private partnership called the Enduring Security Framework, Lynn wrote in his Foreign Affairs article, chief executive officers and chief technology officers of major IT and defense companies meet regularly with top officials from Defense, Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. DARPA also is working on the National Cyber Range, a simulated model of the Internet that will enable the military to test its cyberdefenses before deploying them in the field. The Pentagon’s IT acquisition process also has to change, Lynn wrote in Foreign Affairs. It took Apple Inc. 24 months to develop the iPhone, he said, and at DOD it takes on average about 81 months to develop and field a new computer system after it is funded. “The Pentagon is developing a specific acquisition track for information technology,” Lynn wrote in Foreign Affairs, and it also is bolstering the number of cyberdefense experts who will lead the charge into the new cyberwar era. Cryptome: DoD includes in its cyberspace initiative information, media, intelligence, internet, cellular, radio, television, newspapers and all other forms of hardcopy and electromagnetic signals, also referred to in milspeak as "information and/or spectrum dominance." DoD and the 13+ intelligence agencies (nearly all US government elements now have spy units to work with their information spin units, interconnected under the Homeland Security rubric) are intended to be a single unit participating in the initiative under the titular guidance of the DNI but dominated by the military components' vast open and secret budgets. This presentation shows some of the facilites being built for this initiative at Fort Meade, MD, home of NSA and a number of other information warfare agencies. Each of the military services has its own cyberwar components and all operate in coordination with the 13-plus legacy spying and information management agencies. These are vastly supplemented with commercial and institutional contractors for intellectual and physical armaments. Nearly all of their activities are concealed by secrecy. Surrounding Fort Meade is a region-wide collection of participants from Northern Virginia to Maryland and thence to the nation and overseas, under the seas and into space. A curious outgrowth of these new information-warping military facilities is a move away from Cartesian, right-angle architecture long-mandatory by the Corps of Engineers to the curvilinear (NGA), spiral (GRSOC), crucifix (NCTC), penetrating (DNI, DIA, DISA), historicist retro (902MIG), historicist-modern hybrid (Adjudication)  and what might be called the crotch where an entrance is located at junction of two, three or four legs (NCTC, DMA, a bevy of leased spaces). Some entrances are not easy to find, perhaps on purpose, or merely because of confused committee oversight of designs presented for approval. This is partly the result of institution of architectural design panels at GSA, and later to the Corps of Engineers, to overcome the dreariness of government buildings and partly the result of young bureaucrats, engineers and designers coming into the decisionmaking process. These unusual-looking buildings (cousins of attention-seeking malls) are neither cost-effective nor the most durable way to build and in that way represent a parallel to the forever cost-overrunning, out-of-date-at-birth weapons systems. And all of them are as bloated in size, occupancy and budgets as armaments systems. That is, they perfectly fit congressional mandates to squander public resources, the purpose of the expensive Cyberspace Strategy to succeed the lucrative Global War on Terrorism. Fort Meade Transformation video: http://www.ftmeade.army.mil/pages/growth/growth.html Already the largest employer in the state of Maryland, Fort Meade continues to grow. With congressionally-mandated Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) moves, the establishment of Cyber Command, and the expansion of partner units already at Fort Meade, job opportunities continue to increase. Construction abounds to develop facilities needed to handle the increased workforce. Fort Meade currently has a workforce of more than 40,000 service members, civilian employees and contractors. In the next few years, that number is expected to increase by more than 10,000 people. Fort Meade is partnering with the State of Maryland and the surrounding counties and communities to adapt and expand support and infrastructure to meet these challenges.