To serve as central operational authority for networks, cryptologic and signals intelligence (SIGINT), information operations (IO), cyber, electronic warfare (EW) and space capabilities in support of forces afloat and ashore; to direct Navy cyberspace operations globally to deter and defeat aggression and to ensure freedom of action to achieve military objectives in and through cyberspace; to organize and direct Navy cryptologic operations worldwide and support IO and space planning and operations, as directed; to execute cyber missions as directed; to direct, operate, maintain, secure and defend the Navy's portion of the Global Information Grid; to deliver integrated cyber, IO, cryptologic and space capabilities; to deliver global Navy cyber common operational picture; to develop, coordinate, assess and prioritize Navy cyber, cryptologic and SIGINT, space, IO and EW requirements; to assess Navy cyber readiness; to manage man, train and equip (MTE) functions associated with Navy component commander and Service cryptologic commander responsibilities; and exercise administrative and operational control of assigned forces.
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24 May 2011
Information Warfare is a dead term. IW now stands for Irregular Warfare. Is it only a matter of time before we go back to being Cryptologic Officers? I hope so.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure some fine people who I once served with help write this. I should have mentored them better so they could have written something that wasn't utterly unreadable. I smell lawyers and turf battles!
ReplyDeleteMaybe the can work on an executive summary of their mission statement.
Great stuff. Glad to see some of RADM Singer's ideas come back into vogue.
ReplyDeleteWe might be lost but we are making great time!
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Was Yogi Berra a Cryppy?
ReplyDeleteWill our officers now be elegible for assignments to command at sea?(Thst is THE brass ring/raison d'etre for Line officers, no?)
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