Lt Gen “BJ” ShwedoChief, Information Dominance and

Chief Information OfficerSAF/ CIO A6

Overview

• Information Dominance Flight Plan • Priorities• Cyber Transition/Transformation• Cyber Resilience• Cyber Role in Multi-Domain Operations • Education & Changing Our Culture• Innovation• Cyber Airmen…All Airmen (Total Force)

Information Dominance Flight Plan

STRATEGIC GOALS (10 YEAR EFFORTS)

• Assure freedom of action and deliver combat effects in, thru, and from cyberspace to advance Air Force core missions

• Provide Airmen trusted information when & where they need it • Organize the cyber workforce, and train and educate all Airmen to utilize the cyberspace

domain to accomplish core missions • Optimize the planning, resourcing, and acquisition requirements of cyberspace investments

INFORMATION DOMINANCE VISIONThe Air Force fully exploits the manmade domain of cyberspace to

execute, enhance, and support Air Force core missions

TENETS – ALWAYS TRUE

Innovative Technology & Rapid Acquisition Enable Information DominanceInformation Dominance Increases the Effectiveness of AF Core MissionsCybersecurity, Resiliency, & Ready Workforce Enable Mission Assurance

I. Increase Effectiveness

of AF Core Missions

II. Increase Cybersecurity of

AF Systems and Information

III. Realize Efficiencies

through InnovativeIT Solutions

PRIORITIES OF EFFORT

Priorities

DEPSECDEF Priorities

SECAF Priorities

• Cybersecurity Scorecard

Cyber Transition / Transformation

• No clear demarcation lines• Need a workforce that will make the loop work• Blurred lines of authority

• Limitations of authorities: Title 10, 18, 32, 50, etc.Operate

Defend

Attack

Exploit

Cyber Transition / Transformation

• Loop blends roles (WannaCry, Petya, etc.)• Defendability• Cyber Hygiene

• “Degree of Dominance”• Superiority vs. Supremacy

Observe

Orient

Decide

Act

Cyber Transition / Transformation

• Continue to shift from provisioning to warfighting

• Defining roles of Airmen (Military, Civilian, Contractor)

• Focus on in, through, and from cyberspace

Operate

Defend

Attack

Exploit

Cyber Role in Multi-Domain Operations

• This is not new—Air Realm…(Gorilla Package) • Information Warfare

• Symbiotic relationship between Cyber/PSYOPS/Electronic Warfare/Phys destruct

• Testing Non-Kinetic Duty Officer• Bringing capabilities together

Education & Changing Our Culture

• Cyber Airmen…All Airmen (Total Force)• Engagements across the enterprise, at an individual level• Ground truth leading to future strategy

• Twenty installations in less than three months• Every MAJCOM, every mission area• Leadership to line - why is cyber important to your mission

• Reform-focused• What works, what doesn’t• Gaps and seams identification/verification• Raise awareness of critical cyber hygiene

• Affect change• Partnered with other functionals, Airmen & Family Readiness

Centers and Recruiting• Outreach will touch both military and their families

• October Cybersecurity Awareness Month• 5-week program mirroring government-wide topics

Innovation

• Innovation enables Cyber Mission Forces• Cyber Squadron Initiative (CS-I) – Mission Defense Team• Cyber Protection Teams • Cyber Resiliency Office for Weapons Systems, Red Team, etc.

• Take advantage of best practices of others• No more proprietary solution

• We don’t have the time or the money• Defense Innovation Unit – Experimental (DIUx)• Defense Digital Services (DDS)

• Chief Data Officer• Chief, Cyberspace Innovation• Focus on open architecture

• Use government/industry best practices

Cyber Airmen--Me vs. My Son: Comparing Generations

Cyber Airmen

• I want them cheating against ISIS, Al-Qaeda, etc.• Morale• Acquisition must change (elephant)

• Days of disks/shrink-wrapped manuals are gone• Teaming where industry is in the foxholes• Rapid test…iterative…increased combat capability

• Traditional models don’t work (Congressional help)• 1970’s communications laws/regulations/policies hinder

our ops• Adversaries do not have to worry about DODI, AFI, etc.

• Volunteered during wartime

• Information generation

• Technical savvy

• Life-hacks

• Crowd-sourced solutions

• Old rules do not apply

Today’s Airman – Makes My Job the Best in the Air Force!

• “There should be an app for that”

• Open infrastructure

• Increased authorities/privileges with training that accompanies

• Base Cyber Airmen need to be given the ability to contribute to the fight

• Create a synergistic/complementary C2 model that makes the loop work

• Faster, nastier, better

Create an Environment They Can Thrive In