On DoD: Air Force’s new Space Mission Force; defending U.S. critical infrastructure

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On DoD: Air Force’s new Space Mission Force; defending U.S. critical infrastructure

In this week’s edition of On DoD, we discuss what the Air Force’s Space Command calls a “transformation” of its workforce. As we reporte...

Jared Serbu@jserbuWFED

August 10, 2016 11:00 am

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On DoD: 8/10/2016

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In this week’s edition of On DoD, we discuss what the Air Force’s Space Command calls a “transformation” of its workforce. As we reported on Aug. 8, just after the Air Force released a new white paper describing the Space Mission Force, the service wants to better prepare its spacecrews against “thinking adversaries.” Col. Dean Sniegowski, the total force lead for the Space Mission Force joins us in our first segment to elaborate on that story.

Paul Stockton, the former assistant secretary of Defense for homeland defense is our second guest this week. Stockton — now the managing director at Sonecon — is also a member of the Department of Homeland Security’s Homeland Security Advisory Council. In that capacity, he co-authored a report exploring what would happen if a sophisticated cyber adversary decided to attack multiple different sectors of U.S. critical infrastructure all at once. As we’ll discuss, that’s not a scenario federal officials and critical infrastructure owners have adequately planned for.