America’s adversaries have targeted the military’s weaknesses via information warfare in recent years and as a result the Department of Defense has made a series of moves to reorganize and better defend against such threats.
The COVID-19 pandemic is evidence that Russia and China have accelerated adoption of their age-old influence and disinformation tactics to the modern era, national security experts and military leaders said.
One way the Air Force’s new information warfare command is trying to bring together the disparate parts of the organization is through forums where leaders put representatives from different components in the same room.
As DoD is moving toward integrating under information warfare, industry is supporting efforts to converge capabilities across services and domains of warfare.
C4ISRNET spoke to Kev Hays, director of information warfare programs at Northrop Grumman, about the challenge of information warfare, the areas where government should partner with industry, and how to measure progress.
The Army plans to launch a new company-level unit in fiscal 2021 to support information warfare efforts, according to military officials, with a contract already awarded to its parent battalion.