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Michael Sulmeyer Begins Tenure as Army Principal Cyber Adviser; Christine Wormuth Quoted
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Michael Sulmeyer Begins Tenure as Army Principal Cyber Adviser; Christine Wormuth Quoted

Michael Sulmeyer, formerly a cybersecurity official at the White House, has succeeded Terry Mitchell as the U.S. Army’s principal cyber adviser, Fedscoop reported Friday.

Sulmeyer most recently was an adviser to National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone, who also leads U.S. Cyber Command.

The newly appointed cyber expert also advised the government on cyber matters during Obama, Trump and Biden administrations.

“Michael will work closely with our G2, G6, the chief information officer and Army Cyber to provide me his independent counsel on cyber-related matters,” said Christine Wormuth, secretary of the Army.

The succession follows Mitchell’s retirement after a career of 44 years, in which he most recently served as the Army’s first principal cyber adviser.

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NAVAIR Innovation Lab Uses Upgraded 3D Printing Equipment to Develop Usable Items
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NAVAIR Innovation Lab Uses Upgraded 3D Printing Equipment to Develop Usable Items

A team of researchers at Naval Air Systems Command’s Fleet Readiness Center East have received equipment upgrades designed to boost the development of additive manufacturing capabilities to support areas such as aviation maintenance, engineering, repair and overhaul.

NAVAIR said Friday Fleet Support Team’s Advanced Technology and Innovation Team is now using chemical resistant materials, 3D printing technology capable of reaching high temperatures and larger 3D printers built to manufacture prototypes and usable items.

Among the items developed for real-life applications is a port cover for the digital engine control unit of the AV-8B Harrier’s F402 engine.

“These small aluminum covers had a lead time of over one year. We were able to 3D print fuel-safe replacements from a chemical-resistant polymer, and the depot was able to clear that backlog within a few days, at a small fraction of the cost of sourcing the original aluminum covers,” said Randall Lewis, lead of the FRCE’s Innovation Lab.

The Innovation Lab also supports the deployment of 3D printed applications across the fleet. Lewis explained that these applications undergo initial prototyping and testing at the lab before the NAVAIR Additive Manufacturing Integrated Product Team help create a technical data package that will then be sent to Marines and sailors.

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New Navy Flight III Destroyer Christened at HII’s Mississippi Facility; Adm. Michael Gilday Quoted
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New Navy Flight III Destroyer Christened at HII’s Mississippi Facility; Adm. Michael Gilday Quoted

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ Ingalls Shipbuilding has formally named and launched the U.S. Navy’s first Flight III Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer during a christening ceremony in Mississippi.

According to Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, the future USS Jack H. Lucas will offer a new radar system and electric plant to the naval destroyer fleet, HII said Saturday.

“Jack H. Lucas is not only the most capable and sophisticated surface combatant ever built by man, but it also represents the bridge from the past to the future,” shared Gilday during his keynote speech.

The first-ever Flight III destroyer is named after Jack Lucas, a U.S. Marine Corps member from Mississippi who was the youngest serviceman to receive a Medal of Honor during World War II.

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Air Combat Command to Push Information Warfare Training, Research With New Organization
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Air Combat Command to Push Information Warfare Training, Research With New Organization

Air Combat Command has announced the formation of a new organization at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona to advance information warfare research and training to improve IW readiness and prepare airmen for the future of strategic power competition.

The Information Warfare Training and Research Initiative Detachment will develop training environments that would link airmen from multiple sites worldwide to allow researchers and operators to experiment and train in the electromagnetic spectrum and information environment, ACC said Tuesday.

“We’ve adapted a ‘build, learn, correct, repeat’ model,” said Col. Christopher Budde, chief of ACC’s information warfare division. 

“We are experimenting with sustainable processes and events in quick succession to scale conceptual ideas, operationally test them, then integrate these processes across the larger federated enterprise,” Budde added.

The detachment will be a subordinate unit of the 55th Wing at Offutt AFB in Nebraska and will have an operating site at the 67th Cyberspace Wing, Joint Base San Antonio in Texas.

The command worked with the Air Force Research Laboratory and academic organizations to launch the new organization and carried out 22 IW-focused research and training events through the detachment in support of the service’s missions.

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US, European Commission Unveil Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
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US, European Commission Unveil Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework

The U.S. and the European Commission have announced a new framework that seeks to reestablish a legal process for transfers of personal data from the European Union to the U.S., promote trans-Atlantic data flows and highlight shared commitment to data protection, privacy and collective security.

The U.S. has committed to strengthen civil liberties and privacy safeguards governing its signal intelligence activities, come up with a redress mechanism with independent and binding authority and improve oversight of SIGINT activities under the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, the White House said Friday.

With the new framework, SIGINT collection may be carried out in support of national security objectives while protecting civil liberties and privacy of individuals.

Participating businesses and organizations will continue to be required to self-certify their compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles through the Department of Commerce.

The U.S. intelligence community will implement the policies under the new framework, which seeks to address issues raised by the EU’s court of justice in its 2020 ruling over the Privacy Shield framework.

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GMU National Security Institute Names New Advisory Board Members, Visiting Fellows
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GMU National Security Institute Names New Advisory Board Members, Visiting Fellows

The National Security Institute at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School has announced the appointment to its advisory board of new members who held leadership roles at intelligence and federal agencies and technology sector.

NSI said Friday the new members of its advisory board are:

  • Cindy Courville, first U.S. ambassador to the African Union
  • Ellen McCarthy, former assistant secretary of State for intelligence and research
  • Gilman Louie, CEO of LookingGlass Cyber Solutions
  • Julia Nesheiwat, former homeland security adviser at the National Security Council
  • Lenora Peters-Gant, former senior national intelligence officer at ODNI
  • Leon Panetta, former secretary of defense and former director of the CIA
  • Sue Gordon, former principal deputy director of national intelligence at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence
  • William Evanina, former director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center

McCarthy and Gordon are previous Wash100 Award winners.

NSI announced the addition of 46 new visiting fellows that will support the institute’s mission through their research, panel discussions and executive branch, congressional and media engagements. The institute also promoted several visiting fellows to fellow and senior fellow roles.

Jamil Jaffer, founder and executive director of NSI, said the addition of new advisory board members and fellows comes as the institute plans to set its sights on U.S. response to global repression and protect the country’s national security and economic capability.

Click here to view the list of new appointments and promotions.

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Rick Driggers: New Cybersecurity Law Is Unprecedented
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Rick Driggers: New Cybersecurity Law Is Unprecedented

Rick Driggers, critical infrastructure cyber lead at Accenture Federal Services, has shared his thoughts on the recent Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act.

Signed into law by President Joe Biden on March 15, the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act mandates that individuals and businesses running technological enterprises must give notice of cyber breaches or suspected malpractice to the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency within 72 hours of identifying the issue.”

Driggers, who formerly worked as assistant director integrated operations at CISA, expressed the law is “unprecedented” in the cyber community but nonetheless says public and private sector organizations uniformly believe it to be a “necessary step forward.”

“With this mandatory reporting, CISA will work across federal agencies and the private sector to develop detection and mitigation strategies to share more broadly across the critical infrastructure community to address vulnerabilities being exploited and to promote collective defense,” Driggers explained.

The law also states that impacted organizations must give notice of any ransomware transactions within 24 hours of payment made to extortionists. It has been left up to CISA to provide exact definitions of what type of entities are covered in the legislature and what constitutes a cyberattack.

“If implemented correctly, it is light touch regulation and a welcome step forward,” Driggers concluded.

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JHU APL Develops Space Object Tracking Tech for USSF
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JHU APL Develops Space Object Tracking Tech for USSF

Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU APL) has developed a radar technology designed to help the U.S. Space Force track satellites and other objects in space.

JHU APL said Thursday that its Deep Space Advanced Radar Concept or DARC technology uses a dish antenna array to demonstrate space object tracking. The laboratory primarily used commercial off-the-shelf hardware to build DARC as a way of reducing technical risks.

“There are potentially many applications for a system that allows coherent synchronization of radars,” said Donna Bush, who manages the DARC program for the laboratory.

APL delivered DARC to the Space Force last year and served as the program’s design agent. DARC builds on a 2009 study conducted by NASA to explore how an array of small antennas can serve as a lower-cost alternative to a single large antenna.

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DHS Directorate Looking for Flood Data Collection, Analysis Tech to Support Emergency Management Operations; Melissa Oh Quoted
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DHS Directorate Looking for Flood Data Collection, Analysis Tech to Support Emergency Management Operations; Melissa Oh Quoted

The Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate is soliciting technologies that could deliver near real-time flood information remotely to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Selected offers under the Flood Data Collection and Analysis solicitation will help FEMA in anticipating floodings to improve how the agency would mitigate and respond to such natural disasters, S&T said Thursday.

Technologies of interest for the Silicon Valley Innovation Program-led acquisition include those that provide various data related to flooding and feature situational awareness and predictive analytics capabilities.

“With reliable sources of real time flood data, DHS can improve its forecasting capabilities and aid programs designed to mitigate against future losses,” noted Melissa Oh, managing director of SVIP.

S&T will hold a virtual industry day on Thursday to discuss the solicitation with interested developers and vendors before the proposal deadlines on May 4 and Sept. 4.

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New Navy Touch Screen Trainers Prepare E-2D Aircrew for Early Warning Operations
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New Navy Touch Screen Trainers Prepare E-2D Aircrew for Early Warning Operations

The U.S. Navy recently fielded two new training systems aimed at preparing the naval aircrew responsible for flying the E-2D airborne early warning aircraft.

The Naval Air Systems Command said Wednesday the E-2D Distributed Readiness Trainers already helped members of the E-2D Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 125 complete their two-week on-site readiness training requirement.

Installed by the Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program offices, the D-DRT medium-fidelity trainer presents a mock-up of the E-2D aircraft’s weapon system using commercial-off-the-shelf touch screen monitors that could accommodate two five-man teams during one training scenario.

Crew members could use the trainers to execute tactics, techniques and procedures that take place in early warning aircraft missions.

“Our ability to cycle through reps and sets of advanced tactics, techniques and procedures in a short amount of time will make the warfighter more lethal at a much lower cost to the taxpayer,” shared David Adams, a team leader within the Naval Aviation Training Systems and Ranges program office.

The D-DRT’s future versions is expected to include more capabilities for aircrew readiness.

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