….<\/p>\n\u201cCross-domain synergies [result] when a [cyber<\/span> or electronic] nonkinetic<\/span> and [an explosive] kinetic weapon of any kind can be used in concert,\u201d says Maj. Gen. William Lord, chief of Cyber<\/span> Command (Provisional). \u201cThis can potentially be a weapon of mass disruption [that unlike a bomb, you can] ratchet back. It\u2019s about changing enemy behavior [without] total destruction. What cyber<\/span>– [and electronic attack] weapons bring is something between a letter and a 2,000-lb. bomb.\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019re trying to bring [cyber<\/span>– and electronic weapons] all together as a total investment for the benefit of the warfighter<\/span>,\u201d says Jay Kistler<\/span>, technology adviser for the Pentagon\u2019s Office of Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (AT&L). \u201cWe\u2019re working with all the players who are trying to get their arms around what we mean by cyber<\/span>-operations and how we control them. And there is the recognition that electronic warfare overlaps cyber<\/span>, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance.\u201d<\/p>\n….<\/p>\n
\u201cIt can\u2019t take 10-15 years to develop [a cyber<\/span>– or electronic weapon],\u201d says Lord. \u201cWe need things that get created and then [thrown] away in months, weeks or days. There also is a group looking at how to do more rapid acquisition.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo in addition to the inevitable draw down<\/span> on Pentagon budgets (more on that later), the fact that they are dealing with civilian, and civilian derived, devices that have a total life cycle of less than 5 years from beginning of development to withdrawal<\/span> from the market, mean that they don’t know how to make all their whiz bang work.<\/p>\nOf course the fact that they are using the term, “synergies,” strongly implies that the people in this field are bullsh<\/span>#% artists too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not just lasers, but also things like electronics frying high power microwaves, etc. This appears to be driven by cost and obsolescence issues(paid subscription required): …. \u201cCross-domain synergies [result] when a [cyber or electronic] nonkinetic and [an explosive] kinetic weapon of any kind can be used in concert,\u201d says Maj. Gen. William Lord, chief of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1006,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-military","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194020"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}