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Top 10 SIGNAL Articles of 2021

Check out a list of the most-read articles of the year.

The #1 most-read SIGNAL article of the year covered how the U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) is looking to fill vital cyber and communications gaps.

Which articles from our SIGNAL Media team caught your eye this past year? Check out the top 10 most-read articles from 2021.

1. Special Forces Command Seeks Key Data Aggregation, Cyber Tools
By Kimberly Underwood, February 17, 2021

The U.S. Army’s 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne) is looking to fill vital cyber and communications gaps, but with technologies tailored to its unique missions, said Maj. Gen. John Brennan, USA, commanding general, 1st Special Forces Command (Airborne), Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Read more.

2. Space Force Prepares to Launch National Space Intelligence Center
By Kimberly Underwood, April 27, 2021

The U.S. Space Force is in the process of standing up the National Space Intelligence Center, or NSIC, with a goal of reaching initial operating capability, or IOC, by January 2022. Read more.

3. Thunderdome Moves DISA Beyond Defense in Depth
By George I. Seffers, August 18, 2021

The Defense Information Systems Agency intends next month to award a contract for its Thunderdome zero-trust architecture and to begin implementing a prototype within six months. Read more.

4. DIA Updates Systems, Strategy and Organization Structure
By George I. Seffers, September 1, 2021

The Defense Intelligence Agency is overhauling two critical but aging intelligence systems along with its strategy and organizational structure to enhance the organization’s ability to provide essential intelligence on militaries around the world. Read more.

5. Guarding the Power Grid Against a Natural Enemy
By Robert K. Ackerman, July 1, 2021

Scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory are exploring how to protect the grid against a coronal mass ejection from the sun that could physically damage the nation’s electrical infrastructure and knock out power for several weeks with resultant societal chaos and massive economic losses. Read more.

6. Army Recharges Conformal Wearable Battery Design
By George I. Seffers, February 12, 2021

During the U.S. Army’s Project Convergence 2021 experiment scheduled for October, researchers will assess silicon anode cells for its Conformal Wearable Battery to be used with the Integrated Visual Augmentation System (IVAS) and the Nett Warrior system. Read more.

7. Air Force to Reclassify Cyberspace Support Career Fields
By Kimberly Underwood, September 2, 2021

As the Air Force strives to become a digital force and embraces Chief Gen. C. Q. Brown’s vision of accelerating change, the service is streamlining its cyber and communications career fields. Read more.

8. Joint All-Domain Warfighting Takes Leadership
By Kimberly Underwood, March 30, 2021

To prepare, operate and fight in joint warfare against near-peer adversaries across all domains will take adroit leaders who provide effective decisions in near or real time. Read more.

9. The Growing Importance of Guam
By Kimberly Underwood, February 1, 2021

Always strategic, the island of Guam in the western Pacific Ocean in Micronesia is playing a growing role in the contested, troublesome, near-peer competition environment. Read more.

10. DIA Poised to Release Next MARS Program Product
By George I. Seffers, March 30, 2021

The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which is responsible for providing intelligence on foreign militaries, is prepared in the coming weeks to release a new capability for the Machine-assisted Analytic Rapid-repository System (MARS). Read more.