Forwarded from: William Knowles <wk@c4i.org>
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2004/1213/web-cyberwar-12-14-04.asp
By Frank Tiboni
Dec. 14, 2004
Air Force officials plan to award contracts worth up to $25 million
for computer warfare technologies, according to a solicitation [1]
issued today.
Officials in the Air Force's Research Laboratory in Rome, N.Y., want
industry officials to submit papers explaining their ideas and
capabilities through 2008. They will review them and award contracts
as they receive them, according to the "Cyber Defensive & Offensive
Operations Technology" document published today on the Federal
Business Opportunities Web site.
Industry officials can submit white papers no longer than 10 pages in
five computer warfare areas. They include: assured infostructure
support; complex systems; covert cyber operations; threat evaluation,
attack recognition and diagnosis; and wireless information assurance,
the document states.
Defense Department and military services officials do not like to
discuss the country's computer warfare capabilities. George Tenet,
former CIA director, abruptly but politely ended a question-and-answer
session last month at the FCW Events' Homeland Security and
Information Assurance Conference and Exhibition 2004 when someone
asked if the military could disrupt or destroy information on Web
sites operated by al Qaeda.
DOD officials announced plans last year to create an organization that
attacks computer networks. The new group would be under U.S. Strategic
Command, one of the department's nine unified combatant commands that
oversee the use of combat forces in a geographic region or provide a
capability and develop doctrine for them, manages the operation and
protection of the military's networks and information operations to
include psychological operations and computer network defense and
attack.
Industry officials said the military's computer network attack
capability originated in the National Security Agency. They said DOD
officials moved it a few years ago to the former Joint Task
Force-Computer Network Operations until they made the computer network
attack organization announcement last year and formed the Joint Task
Force-Global Network Operations, devoted entirely to computer network
defense, in June.
[1]
http://www2.eps.gov/spg/USAF/AFMC/AFRLRRS/Reference%252DNumber%252DBAA%252D03%252D18%252DIFKA/SynopsisP.html
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