ICYMI last week, here is my story on the new guidance from CISA adapting #ZeroTrust from IT to operational technology/industrial control systems (OT/ICS) To be blunt, the reaction from most of the experts I spoke to was pretty "meh," and several thought there were gaps www.ot.today/cybersecurit...

@deptofwar.bsky.social senior-most cyber official, Katie Sutton, gave new details at last week's #CyberWorkforceSummit about the "force generation" and personnel reforms being enacted under CyberCom 2.0, including skills based hiring & incentive pay. www.govinfosecurity.com/pentagon-giv...

I imagine revising one of the @nist.bsky.social canonical #cybersecurity guides must be like writing a new version of the bible. Every change, no matter how small, will be endlessly debated. And whatever the outcome, some people are likely to be deeply pissed. 🧵1/3 www.ot.today/nist-urged-t...

Is it just me, or does #Lent, #Ramadan and the #LunarNewYear all starting on the same day sound like the start of a @cstross.bsky.social Laundry Files story?

ICYMI: One of the advantages of #HybridWarfare is that it puts the victim in a bind: How to respond without escalating? I wrote for OT Today about how this dynamic played out in the recent foiled #CyberAttack on the Polish energy grid, blamed on Russian intel agencies. www.ot.today/russia-hacke...

@robertgrahamprod.bsky.social lays out, in convincing detail, why the best adjective to describe Elon Musk's merger of his electric car company Tesla and his AI company xAI is "corrupt." open.substack.com/pub/scytalep...

After less than seven years, the Space Force has finally decided key issues like how many buttons it should have on its dress jackets (six, apparently, because it's the sixth service.) aerospaceamerica.aiaa.org/space-force-...

@secevangelism.substack.com explains why #Starlink wasnt able to alleviate the Iranian internet cutoff. TL;DR Iranian authorities appear to be jamming GPS, which is needed by the Starlink system to provide timing and location data to recievers ajd satellites #Iran open.substack.com/pub/secevang...

My fmr @compiler.news colleague @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reveals the broken reasoning behind the prediction markets like @kalshiofficial.bsky.social trying to monetize bettors' best guesses about future events. And the probs it creates when used in elections. theintercept.com/2025/12/29/p...

The US military is outsourcing on-orbit refuelling & servicing capabilities to commercial providers, leaving it reliant on vendors for a strategic capability — 2026 will be a critical year @darpa.mil @northropgrumman.bsky.social @aerospacecorp.bsky.social www.airandspaceforces.com/us-on-obit-s...

The @usairforce.bsky.social has been talking abt using commercial IT products for years, but often that meant buying them and then customizing beyond recognition, so it did exactly what the service wanted. This time will be different, department leaders say www.airandspaceforces.com/air-force-it...

New reliability rules tell major electric power co's that they must monitor traffic inside OT and ICS networks, but that's going to be a heavy lift, experts from @tenablesecurity.bsky.social Armis Security and Dragos Dragos Inc tell me in my latest story for OT Today. www.ot.today/monitoring-e...

Incredible story. Made more interesting and positive by the fact that he didn't have a perfectly clean record. We're all imperfect and flawed. We've all made mistakes. Even the heroes.

NASA lost contact with MAVEN, which is orbiting Mars, on Dec 6, but now have recovered a fragment of tracking data suggesting it was rotating in an unexpected manner and its orbital trajectory may have changed after emerging from behind Mars. 1/2

There's a growing head of steam behind the idea of a new military service to recruit/train/equip a force for war fighting in the #cyber domain. It's an intuitive ask: The Air Force fights in the air, who fights in cyber? But it's not as simple as that www.airandspaceforces.com/former-cyber...

Fmr officials say @deptofwar.bsky.social plans for US Cyber Command create tension b/w the push to normalize cyber operations, and efforts to give CyberCom unique authorities. My story featuring the @csis.org & CSC 2.0 Commission on Cyber Force Generation. www.airandspaceforces.com/cybercom-for...

I Work For an Evil Company, but Outside Work, I'm Actually a Really Good Person www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-w...

www.reuters.com/world/asia-p... If the guy from DeepSeek, speaking at a PRC government conference, says he is "pessimistic" about the impact of AI, how terrified should the rest of us be?

When Space Force leaders discuss cyber threats against the commercial satellite providers they use, they talk abt attacks from nation state adversaries. But for cyber defenders in the commercial space sector the daily reality can be rather different. www.airandspaceforces.com/satellite-op...

My 1st story for ISMG, where I'm covering OT cybersecurity takes off from @60minutes.bsky.social report on Chinese hacking of US power and water utilities. I look at @istorg.bsky.social Josh Corman's efforts to help shore up security in the water sector. www.bankinfosecurity.com/weak-exposed...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth claimed $1.4B savings from cancelling the Air Force's Cloud One contract. But my reporting shows it's not that simple. Cloud services will still be needed, still have to be paid for. In fact, they may cost more. My story: www.airandspaceforces.com/dod-canceled...

ICYMI: @spaceforcedod.bsky.social Sapce Force Building Tools to Detect #Cyberattacks on Satellites www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

USAF training doesn't test kill chains to failure, sez Jon Rhone, fmr cmdr of the 505th Test & Eval “If the first time that we fail at [closing long-range kill chains] is when the blood is flowing, I think we’ve prob done the country a disservice." #asc2025 www.airandspaceforces.com/industry-exp...

Space Systems Command’s Front Door - the one-stop shop for vendors, is getting a rebrand and a leg-up. It will now be called Space Force Front Door and will be a single touchpoint for the whole Space Force. My story for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy www.airandspaceforces.com/space-system...

U.S. Cyber Command should be replaced by a U.S. Digital Command, which would have CyberCom's cyber role and lead infowar and electromagnetic war ops as well. DoD should also stand up a new military service, the U.S. Digital Corps, argues @scsp.bsky.social www.airandspaceforces.com/pentagon-nee...

Silicon Valley firms like Microsoft have built an electronic carceral for the CCP, using cutting edge data collection and management to enable a totalitarian state. Fuck them. apnews.com/article/chin... Silicon Valley enabled brutal mass detention and surveillance in China, internal documents show

New #AI tools from data giant Palantir could help reduce risks to civilians in war, but only if the military using them has a prof culture that values the laws of war and reducing harm to civilians. My latest story in @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy www.airandspaceforces.com/can-ai-help-...

Air Force’s Big IT Programs Need ‘Course Correction,’ General Says www.airandspaceforces.com/air-forces-b...

Outsourcing the ground segment — the antennas, modems & switches needed to keep contact with a satellite in orbit — is attractive to operators, especially start-ups looking to keep down headcount and capital expenditures. My latest for Via Satellite Mag interactive.satellitetoday.com/via/august-2...

Orbital Watch, the threat sharing service run by @spaceforcedod.bsky.social's Front Door aims to share classified info w cleared companies and execs, and to distribute anonymized threat data from industry. My story for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

The House & Senate versions of the 2026 NDAA both contain provisions aimed at expanding or speeding the processes to get new tech to warfighters, including two new authorities or mandates for the Defense Innovation Unit. My story for Air & Space Forces Mag: www.airandspaceforces.com/defense-poli...

In an essay out this week, but written last year, Mark Berkowitz, who has since been tapped by the Trump White House as asst secdef for space policy, says that merging the spy agency NRO into Space Force could turbocharge national security space acquisition. www.airandspaceforces.com/defense-poli...

Rather touching story from @theregister.com www.theregister.com/2025/07/07/w...

A half-dozen new space start-ups, two w research contracts from Space Force or Air Force #technology incubators, are currently planning low-Earth orbit (LEO) constellations of small satellites offering more accurate, harder to jam alternatives to GPS. Story www.airandspaceforces.com/space-force-...

The threat of Iranian cyber retaliation for US bombing highlights the reliance of USAF & other military services on civilian infrastructure vulnerable to hackers, like airports. My story 4 ‪‪@airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy last week frm #DefendTheAirport www.airandspaceforces.com/dual-use-mil...

For #autonomous vehicles, war fighting and motor racing have more in common than you might think. Both involve pushing limits & require no-fail outcomes even in extreme conditions, BoozAllen CTO Bill Vass and NVIDIA's @ericbreckenfeld.bsky.social told me: www.airandspaceforces.com/what-defense...

Aaron Mannes' fascinating short essay reminds us that the origin of Memorial Day, like everything else in America, is actually about race. open.substack.com/pub/aaronman...

Back in April, my friend @watermanreports.bsky.social wrote a piece remembering Marla Ruzicka. When Marla called, no one in my circle of friends was ever too busy to pick up. She was brave and beautiful on pursuing peace and healing wounds. I treasure her memory. www.upi.com/Defense-News...

ICYMI: My recent reporting on Orbital Watch -- the US Space Force's initiative to share with the private sector information about threats and hazards to satellites in orbit. It's a small start. The "initial operating capacity" will be quarterly briefings, more a gesture than a service. 1/? 🧵

I wrote a 3-part deep dive for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy into @secdef.govpeeps.us Hegseth's recent memo tearing up rulebook on how the military buys software. In Pt 1, USAF Gen Cropsey tells me the service is already embracing new acquisition tools www.airandspaceforces.com/software-acq...

DoD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer let slip a little bit of actual news last week, at the AFCEA NoVa #innovation IT Day event. Learning from the epically slow roll out of the CMMC rule Pentagon officials plan a voluntary scheme for contractors products www.airandspaceforces.com/dod-quicker-...

Excited to be covering the AFCEA NoVa IT #Innovation day this morning for @airandspaceforces.com.web.brid.gy. Great speakers incl DoD Chief Software Officer Rob Vietmeyer, @spaceforcedod.bsky.social chief of commercial satcom Jared Reece and reps from the software factories and innovation shops.

The DoD's 1st ever AI chief says the U.S. military "is not well postured yet" to do test & evaluation on modern #software like #AI that needs constant updating. CNAS scholar Josh Wallin says user acceptance is a challenge for AI testers. My story www.airandspaceforces.com/military-ai-...

Grateful for my 3/24 my March 24 convo with Danish journalists touring the U.S. to learn about fueling diversity in Denmark's media. Read all about their visit to the @nationalpress.bsky.social office and how it boosted my "hoptimism" in my @linkedin.com post: www.linkedin.com/posts/rachel...

Today DOJ announced a three-year prison sentence for a DOD employee, a 26-year-old civilian woman from Nevada, who mishandled Top Secret documents by taking them home from a secure facility.

@erratarob.bsky.social has some interesting & characteristically contrarian observations on how the story of the creation of the Internet is normally told. open.substack.com/pub/scytalep...

ICYMI: Last week, I was busy covering the huge SATShow in DC for @satellitetoday.com.web.brid.gy I wrote about remarks of Jay A. Schwarz, the freshly minted director of the FCC'S new #Space Bureau, who promised to "streamline and modernize" space licensing. www.satellitetoday.com/satshow-2025...

The ability to maneuver and do rendezvous and proximity operations in orbit is a key warfighting capability for the 21st century. @usspaceforce.bsky.social top General Michael Guetlein told an event in Washington this week that the Chinese have been practicing. www.defensenews.com/space/2025/0...

@usairforce's iconic #SoftwareDevelopment factory @KesselRunAF is pivoting. Critics charge it's abandoning its original "secret sauce" of hybrid govt-vendor coding teams and returning to a more conventional model of acquisition. My story for @ASForcesMag www.airandspaceforces.com/kessel-run-a...

Old Russian joke: The two most important men in tsarist Russia were Tsar Nicholas II and ... whoever last spoke to Tsar Nicholas II. New Russian joke: When did Gen Keith Kellogg last speak to President Trump? www.military.com/daily-news/2...