Northrop Grumman Cyber Report: [Sep 29, 21] Cyber Elements of JADC2; AF's Kessel Run

Defense & Aerospace Report

On this week’s Cyber Report, sponsored by Northrop Grumman, Jennifer Walsmith, vice president of the Cyber and Information Solutions Business Unit of Northrop Grumman’s Network Information Solutions Division, discusses how to best execute the Defense Department’s Joint All Domain Command and Control vision especially its cyber dimensions, ensuring a secure and open architecture, improving hardware and software vulnerabilities of existing weapons and NDAA takeaways; and Col. Brian Beachkofski, USAF, the commander and the CEO of the US Air Force’s Kessel Run agile software development unit — formally known as the Air Force Life-Cycle Management Center Detachment 12 — discusses the SlapShot application that played a critical role in the evacuation of more than 122,000 from Afghanistan, how it was developed and quickly adapted for the mission, the key to quickly developing secure cyber applications, lessons learned, and changing culture to accept risks that will yield big payoffs with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian.