“A lot of our warfare in the future is going to be electronic. Our enemies are going to try to take us down either through our Defense Department systems or through other systems.”–Lisa N. Wolford, founder, president and CEO of CSSS.NET

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“NATO SATCOM will certainly be handicapped if interoperability with national systems is not key to the design of how we go forward.”–Malcolm Green, chief of Capability Area Team (CAT) 9 National Information Infrastructure (NII) Communication Infrastructure Services, NC3A

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“There’s potential here to take this forward. The operating systems at these frequencies are just mind blowing.”–Dr. Simon Cotton, the Centre for Secure Information Technologies, Queen’s University Belfast

To find out what Cotton is talking about, read the full article, available now on SIGNAL Online.

“The difference there is [that] we don’t want to prioritize and think just in terms of ‘how do we secure information’ without thinking through our real objective of assuring support for DOD missions.”–Mark Orndorff, director of the PEO for Mission Assurance and Network Operations, DISA

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“If one of those types of attacks were to occur anywhere in the United States, nowhere else has the assets we have that are well-trained and ready. But those are the ones you hope never happen. No matter how good we are, there is no good outcome.”—Cathy L. Lanier, chief of police, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.C.

Find out what Chief Lanier is talking about in the full article, available online now at SIGNAL Online.

“These materials and electronics … have the potential to increase the performance and useful life of the next generation of satellites and launch systems.”—Col. Stephen Hargis, USAF, director of the Space Test Program and commander, Space Development Group at the Space Development and Test Wing

For more of Col. Hargis’ thoughts, read the full article, available online now at SIGNAL Online.

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“Once you put that information into a PowerPoint format, that plan is almost immediately stale. Weather continues to change; intelligence updates might continue to come in; there might be impacts to some of the sorties suggested. All of those cannot be captured in a manual PowerPoint presentation unless you have someone there constantly updating it.”–Stacy Furcini, ISPAN division chief

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“We are in a dynamic environment with an adversary that’s extremely adaptive. The only constant is change, and we have got to be able to adapt our TTPs [tactics, techniques and procedures] with enough agility to counter what we’re facing on the battlefield as the war evolves.”–Brad Mason, chief of Army Forces Command’s G-3/5/7 Strategic Initiatives Division

Read more of Mason’s comments in the full article, online now at SIGNAL Magazine.

“The Defense Department must take decisive remedial steps to achieve positive controls over all social computing transactions originating from the toxic Internet. The risks are too great to accept insufficient safeguards.”–Paul A. Strassman, distinguished professor of information science at George Mason University and former director of defense information for the Office of the Secretary of Defense

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“Everybody imagines that everyone wants to share information because somehow it will make things better. That’s a huge assumption, and it may not be what you think it is.” — Capt. Timothy Spratto, USN, JCD&E Capabilities Solutions Group lead

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