To protect the content of 5G transmissions, the Pentagon should accelerate development of mobile applications using end-to-end encryption. Today’s military radios or encrypted email only encrypt a message in transit. The message exists in an unencrypted form in the receiving server.

Sun Tzu said all warfare is based on deception. Today, that means electronic deception.

The Army is already struggling to man its new cyber units — and now it wants to expand their ranks and responsibilities for a new mission.

Before the Air Force will trust AI to pick out targets, Gen. Holmes said, it has to get smarter than a human three-year-old.

The Army wants to move much faster in cyberspace against espionage, subversion, and disinformation — but that means accepting higher risks.

Nicholas Eftimiades, a former senior US senior intelligence officer, said the Trump Administration policy “is very surgical in its approach,” and will have only a “moderate impact” on allied countries.

The Army is upgrading its intelligence system to give forward commanders full access to the cloud — and work when the enemy takes the network down.

“We’re spending a lot of money in this area right now, but we don’t understand where we’re spending it” says Navy undersecretary Thomas Modly.

As it races to modernize, the service may be creating new formations faster than it can train the technical specialists to staff them.

In April 2018 the government hit a high point of 725,000 delayed clearances. Today, the number has dipped below 360,000. In May, we reported that would-be federal employees and defense contractors waited an average of 221 days for a Secret clearance and 534 days for a Top Secret clearance.