Air Force Seeks Full Spectrum Dominance Over "Any And All"
Computers
"Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement" plans announced
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The U.S. airforce has announced plans for a two-year, $11
million project that will seek the capability to hack into,
fully control and even destroy any form of computer or network
there is, in its ongoing "national cybersecurity initiative".
The Air Force Research Laboratory introduced the plans earlier
this week in a a request for proposals as a "Dominant Cyber
Offensive Engagement."
The request states:
Of interest are any and all techniques to enable user and/or
root level access to both fixed (PC) or mobile computing
platforms. Robust methodologies to enable access to any and
all operating systems, patch levels, applications and hardware
are of interest.
The purpose for this is clear:
....this BAA's objective includes the capability to provide a
variety of techniques and technologies to be able to affect
computer information systems through Deceive, Deny, Disrupt,
Degrade, Destroy (D5) effects. Of interest are any and all
techniques including enabling D5 effects to computers and
their networks...
"...research efforts under this program are expected to result
in complete functional capabilities." The request notes.
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The program will also focus on a stealth approach:
Also, we are interested in technology to provide the
capability to maintain an active presence within the
adversaries' information infrastructure completely
undetected...
....it is desired to have the capability to stealthily
exfiltrate information from any remotely-located open or
closed computer information systems with the possibility to
discover information with previously unknown existence...
Consideration should be given to maintaining a "low and slow"
gathering paradigm in these development efforts to enable
stealthy operation.
This approach will provide an alternative to another program
being proposed under the same overall initiative that will see
the airforce build its own zombie network to forcefully and
openly "Carpet Bomb" any target computers or networks.
As Wired.com notes, recently the military, mirroring it's pre-
emptive war strategy, has ****fted to an offensive posture
where cyberspace is concerned, rather than a defensive one:
in the last year or so, the tone has changed -- and become
more bellicose. “Cyber, as a warfighting domain . . . like
air, favors the offense,” said Lani Kass, a special assistant
to the Air Force Chief of Staff who previously headed up the
service's Cyberspace Task Force. "If you’re defending in
cyber, you’re already too late."
"We want to go in and knock them out in the first round,"
added Lt. Gen. Robert Elder, commander of the 8th Air Force,
which focuses on network issues.
"An adversary needs to know that the U.S. possesses powerful
hard and soft-kill (cyberwarfare) means for attacking
adversary information and command and sup****t systems at all
levels," a recent Defense Department re****t notes. "Every
potential adversary, from nation states to rogue
individuals... should be compelled to consider... an attack on
U.S. systems resulting in highly undesireable consequences to
their own security."
"Full Spectrum Dominance" has always been the military aim and
exactly as it has done over land, sea and air, the military is
seeking to aggressively exert it's control over cyberspace and
all those who reside within that terrain.
Multiple programs are being rolled out by the Pentagon and its
offshoot agencies such as DARPA, in a secret war with the
internet that has been described as a $30 billion "electronic
Manhattan Project".
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