Cyber: The new Red Flag battleground

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http://www.af.mil/News/ArticleDisplay/tabid/223/Article/503204/cyber-the-new-red-flag-battleground.aspx

By Senior Airman Jette Carr
Air Force News Service
October 02, 2014

NELLIS Air Force Base, Nev. (AFNS) -- The internet is a battleground, and 
information is the prize. News reports of a shopping retailer losing 
control of customers’ digital data and an internet browser being 
compromised are some of the recent evidence of the constant cyber-threat 
present in the World Wide Web.

The digital war over information is one Air Force cyber specialists fight 
on a daily basis. To give these Airmen an upper-hand against their online 
adversaries, the 24th Air Force takes part in several training exercises, 
to include Red Flag.

Red Flag is large scale combat training exercise held multiple times per 
year and hosted at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, that gives air, space 
and now cyberspace service members from the U.S. and allied nations the 
ability to come together to train as a team. Air, Space and Cyber domains 
are integrated between tactical and operational level participants during 
Red Flag at the Combined Air Operations Center – Nellis (CAOC-N)/505th 
Test Squadron. Through the exercise, each organization learns to work 
together to form a stronger total force, while also being shown how their 
individual talents fit into the bigger picture.

Cyber first played a part in the Red Flag exercise series in 2007, said 
Daryl Crissman, the 318th Cyber Operations Group, Detachment 2 chief of 
weapons and tactics. At first their initial involvement was limited and 
only made up a small portion of the simulated mission. Over the past two 
to three years, however, Cyber has made measurable gains in becoming a 
fully integrated component of the exercise.

“Our mission is to train the next generation of cyber warriors and we look 
at what we call the full spectrum … defensive and offensive operations,” 
said Michael Homsy, the 24th Air Force exercise planner and cyber range 
coordinator. “We have several teams that are being developed … teams that 
are designed to go after the adversary and their infrastructure and 
degrade their ability to launch their capabilities against us, as well as 
defend critical infrastructure as it pertains to our country.”

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