AI, Cyber Warfare and The Digital Battle Field

Last week, Lt. Gen. Robert Skinner — the lead for DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency) — stood up at a defence conference in Baltimore, Maryland. His mouth barely moved, but the first 45 seconds of his speech was generated by a machine that had been trained for just 30 minutes of training. After which he announced that:

Generative artificial intelligence, I would offer, is probably one of the most disruptive technologies and initiatives in a very long, long time.

Overall, DISA define their mission to plan, monitor, prototype and deploy, and within key focus areas (Lines of Effort — LOE):

For this, we see the core classification areas of the state of development of the technology:

• Deploy: NextGen Enterprise Mobile Management, Infrastructure as Code and Enterprise Grey Core.
• Prototype: RPA, Containers as a Service, SAR, Data Catalog, Cyber Anonomy Detection, Thunderdome, Quantum Resistant Cryptography, Classified Mobile Capabilities and Reverse Browser Isolation.
• Plan: 5G, Edge Computing, Automated Coordination, Data Tagging, Big Data Analytics and Visualisation…