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Subject: [ISN] Air Force Openly Seeking Cyber-Weapons
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews ! org>
Date: 2012-08-29 5:49:37
Message-ID: alpine.DEB.2.02.1208290049230.19881 () infosecnews ! org
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http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/air-force-openly-seeking-cyber-weapons-082812
By Brian Donohue
Threat Post
August 28, 2012
The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) posted a broad
agency announcement [PDF] recently, calling on contractors to submit
concept papers detailing technological demonstrations of ‘cyberspace
warfare operations' (CWO) capabilities.
The Air Force is looking to obtain CWO capabilities falling into a
number of categories including: ‘cyberspace warfare attack' and
‘cyberspace warfare support.'
The broad agency announcement defines ‘cyberspace warfare attack'
capabilities as those which would give them the ability to "destroy,
deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, corrupt, or usurp the adversaries [sic]
ability to use the cyberspace domain for his advantage."
Cyberspace warfare support capabilities, the document claims, would
include actions deployed by operational commanders in order to,
intercept, identify, and locate sources of access and vulnerability for
threat recognition, targeting, and planning, both immediately and for
future operations. This also includes the providing of information
required for the immediate decisions involving CWOs and data used to
produce intelligence or provide targeting for an electronic attack.
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