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Goal Of DARPA’s ‘Plan X’ Is To Make Cyber Warfare More Manageable

Friday, April 26th, 2013

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The goal of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) “Plan X” cyber-offense research program is to help make the offensive aspect of cyber warfare more manageable and controllable, according to DARPA’s chief. DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar told reporters Wednesday at the Pentagon that Plan X, formally known as Foundational Cyberwarfare, is specifically about building the technology infrastructure to help launch cyber warfare from where “you hope that it’s going to do what you think it’s going to do,” as…

Navy Leaders Downplay Looking At Foreign Navy Shipbuilding Amid Lawmaker Objections

The Navy’s top leaders this week seemed to downplay and back down on the service potentially using foreign shipyards to build U.S. Navy ships or buying foreign designed warships overseas […]

Army

Senate Defense Appropriators See ‘Risk’ With Army’s Reconciliation Plan To Fund Munitions Increase

The Senate’s top defense appropriators cited concern this week with the Army’s request to fund the majority of its large increase to munitions procurement in fiscal year 2027 through the […]

Army

Army Relooking At Its ‘Whole Aviation Transformation’ Plan, Acting Chief Tells Lawmakers

The Army is relooking at its “whole aviation transformation initiative,” the service’s acting chief of staff told lawmakers on Tuesday, to include its approach for future procurement of “enduring” platforms. […]

Army

Lawmakers Request DoD Briefing On Army’s Planned Cuts To Aviation Procurement

A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has sent a letter asking the Pentagon for a briefing on the potential industrial base impacts as a result of the Army’s planned cuts […]