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Air Force Seeks Full Spectrum Dominance Over "Any
And All" Computers
"Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement" plans
announced
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The U.S. airforce has announced plans for a two-year, $11 million
project that will seek the capability to hack into, fully control
and even destroy any form of computer or network there is, in
its ongoing "national cybersecurity initiative".
The Air Force Research Laboratory introduced the plans earlier
this week in a a
request for proposals as a "Dominant Cyber Offensive
Engagement."
The request states:
Of interest are any and all techniques to enable user and/or
root level access to both fixed (PC) or mobile computing platforms.
Robust methodologies to enable access to any and all operating
systems, patch levels, applications and hardware are of interest.
The purpose for this is clear:
...this BAA's objective includes the capability to provide
a variety of techniques and technologies to be able to affect
computer information systems through Deceive, Deny, Disrupt,
Degrade, Destroy (D5) effects. Of interest are any and all techniques
including enabling D5 effects to computers and their networks...
"...research efforts under this program are
expected to result in complete functional capabilities."
The request notes.
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The program will also focus on a stealth approach:
Also, we are interested in technology to provide
the capability to maintain an active presence within the adversaries'
information infrastructure completely undetected...
...it is desired to have the capability to stealthily
exfiltrate information from any remotely-located open or closed
computer information systems with the possibility to discover
information with previously unknown existence... Consideration
should be given to maintaining a "low and slow" gathering
paradigm in these development efforts to enable stealthy operation.
This approach will provide an alternative to another
program being proposed under the same overall initiative that
will see the airforce build
its own zombie network to forcefully and openly "Carpet
Bomb" any target computers or networks.
As Wired.com
notes, recently the military, mirroring it's pre-emptive war strategy,
has shifted to an offensive posture where cyberspace is concerned,
rather than a defensive one:
in the last year or so, the tone has changed --
and become more bellicose. “Cyber, as a warfighting domain
. . . like air, favors
the offense,” said Lani Kass, a special assistant
to the Air Force Chief of Staff who previously headed up the
service's Cyberspace Task Force. "If you’re defending
in cyber, you’re already too late."
"We want to go in and knock
them out in the first round," added Lt. Gen.
Robert Elder, commander of the 8th Air Force, which focuses
on network issues.
"An adversary needs to know that the U.S.
possesses powerful hard and soft-kill (cyberwarfare) means for
attacking adversary information and command and
support systems at all levels," a recent Defense Department
report notes. "Every potential adversary, from nation states
to rogue individuals... should be compelled to consider... an
attack on U.S. systems resulting in highly undesireable consequences
to their own security."
"Full
Spectrum Dominance" has always been the military
aim and exactly as it has done over land, sea and air, the military
is seeking to aggressively exert it's control over cyberspace
and all those who reside within that terrain.
Multiple programs are being rolled out by the Pentagon
and its offshoot agencies such as DARPA, in a secret war with
the internet that has been described as a $30 billion "electronic
Manhattan Project".
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