What cyber lessons has the Pentagon learned from recent global conflicts?

What lessons from current conflicts have most directly influenced how the military is approaching cyber readiness today

I'd imagine there's a lot that you actively learn with each new conflict, either for the United States or around the globe

And that process of information gathering and then making the processes that much sharper has to be a key part of the evolution of this type of technology

I'm hoping you could talk to us a little bit more about those learned lessons from those conflicts and what that means for adapting your path moving forward

Yeah, we have learned a lot and continue to learn a lot. And the war of the future is not going to be solely kinetic

There is and there is going on right now the cyber, the cyber, there's a lot of activity in cyberspace

If anybody's paid attention to Salt Typhoon, Vault Typhoon. And then, of course, the Russians are pretty active as well

So what we learned from Ukraine is the importance of having apps and compute and the ability to do software development at the edge And with that in mind we put in the Joe clouds the joint operational edge clouds We got a couple of them installed out in the Pacific

We've got a couple more being developed and a couple more about to go into the UCOM, AFRICOM, CENTCOM area

Because we need to put together that digital foundation that enables the warfighter to receive the national level, the enterprise level, information, data, services, apps, tools, all of that as if they were sitting here in the United States when they are actually located somewhere across the globe

And also to do it in conjunction with our allies and partners

So there been a resurgence in the effort on all sides and I would say just about every nation to actually deliberately come together and establish the standards required to share data to do the interoperability on developing our environment So the mission partner environment is our kind of ubiquitous term for our network that we use to share classified information operational information with our allies and partners

And we have been working over the last year very diligently, once again, with those five

eyes to kind of solve the tough engineering problems, starting with the identity credential

and access management piece in a federated way because it doesn't scale if everybody

has to come into the U.S. environment and get their own identity, their own logins

Then you end up with like four or five different computers on your desk if you're doing a

different computer for each network. That just is not working. So the answer to that is the zero trust cloud, right, with allies and partners and that machine

to machine data speed. And we have that prototype out at sea right now

It's on the U.K. carrier, the HMS Prince of Wales. And it's got four different clouds, multi-vendor

So this is a zero commercial multi multi environment We got allies and partners from NATO from Five Eyes and non working in that environment And so we are learning a lot on the operational

employment and how that will actually work for the warfighter. We've been testing it the last

year, but we're really excited. That deployment is going on between now and the end of December

And so we're not losing any time. We're moving out. We're figuring out how to work together

And I guess it was a surprise to me. And not just on the United States side

So all of the other partner nations as well. So we're starting to move into the NATO direction, and they're going to have some engineering efforts and uplift that's going to need to happen on the NATO side

to make everything work together, to bring us into the modern age

So grateful for your time. You undoubtedly brought such tremendous value to our viewers for the event today

Thanks for kicking things off with us. Great to have you