 Okay, hey welcome. We're gonna talk about the soft space cyber triad. I was joking with our My other my other teammates here as part of the try I feel like I'm in the back of the shop at giving a Vitamix sale here with people trying to track people in back here Come on step right up for the juicer But hey great to be here a USA with again my teammates general carburetor general Barrett Talk on such an important topic for all three of our commands So when the three of us last spoke about the cyber space soft triad We talked mostly on the triads value proposition of the joint force And I want to build on that today and talk about use of socks value proposition to the triad Across the spectrum of conflict and competition and how use of sock is transforming to meet the army's requirements of 2030 And how that all ties in the component of the cyber space soft triad So our armies at an inflection point of transformation secretary talked about it yesterday After 20 years of counterinsurgency and counterterrorism our army and the joint forces once again focused on strategic competition When people think of soft they usually think of the last two decades of counterterrorism in the cent com theater And to be the truth the truth is that soft was not built for counterterrorism We had to transform portions of our force to meet the requirements of the time So soft is reinvesting back to our roots of a regular warfare With the added benefit of 20 years of sustained combat operations that will make us even more effective in strategic competition the strategic environment requires use of sock to transform its force structure Develop and integrate new applications of a regular warfare and modernize the force from multi-domain operations Competition for 2030 will leverage new technology across all domains and during last month's the warfighter summit and Yesterday during the opening of a USA the secretary warmest said the number one thing the number one thing the army of 2030 needs To do is to see more faster farther and more persistently at every echelon Than our adversaries the cyberspace soft triad does exactly this by providing a joint force With the enhanced capability to rapidly see sense stimulate strike assess and affect across the spectrum from integrated turns during competition to high end conflict Now the word triad we know it in military sense it's it's commonly associated with strategic deterrence or the nuclear triad Now this modern-day triad is not meant to replace but actually enhance integrated deterrence by providing perhaps more politically palatable and acceptable options in terms of risk for our policy makers and Is our professional responsibility to prevent provide our best military vice to policy makers that would contribute to deterrence? perhaps in a different way cyberspace and soft all possess each one of us possess unique Unique but independent capabilities each component can rapidly gain intelligence attack critical vulnerabilities And we must leverage all of these components in order to impose doubt cost and belief upon our adversaries Uses socks value proposition as a component of this triad is our people our forward presence our international partnerships our innovative mindset and our ability to converge capabilities for asymmetric advantages soft brings outsize impact across Thanks to our access presence influence to create enduring advantages in this operational environment The Army's new field manual 3.0 multi-domain operations defines the operation environment with three dimensions physical informational and human as well as five physical domains air ground space cyberspace and maritime soft inherently influences across the human and informational Dimensions to achieve placement and access in the physical dimension This allows the triad to converge capabilities across all three dimensions and enable the joint force to better see Sense and strike across all five domains. We do this across a spectrum of competition crisis and conflict So for competition steady-state competition soft operates as a component of the triad Through its physical placement access and sustained presence in politically sensitive Sometimes hostile and sometimes contested areas our special forces civil affairs psychological operations and intelligence units are forward-postured engaging and influencing relevant populations in the contact layer every day our Access and influence in these areas allow the triad to conduct pre-conflict operational preparation the environment Target analysis as well as location specific testing Implacement and employment of space and cyber enabling capabilities for the joint force We do this through a regular warfare campaigning in use of sock currently has and always has Approximately 2,800 to 3,000 people spread across 77 about 80 different countries are along the world every day Moving on to crisis a regular warfare campaigning allows the triad to deliver on effective and scalable deterrence options during crisis in both first strike and retaliatory scenarios our forward posture in Deep relationships allow us to enable early action to deter disrupt or surprise adversary anti-access denial capabilities and C5 ISRT a Great example, I'll give a quick vignette on you know Ukraine a lot's been written about Persistence presence you came the last seven and a half years prior to the invasion after Crimea and then this current invasion Where a soft was a small part small part along with the National Guard and other parts of the army at helping training and Transform Ukrainian soft and military from a Russian influence best gnats type model an organization to a natal compatible professional and lethal fighting force our current a regular warfare Contributions are providing effective or proving effective on Ukraine's battlefield today Army soft forward and conus based intelligence support is helping Ukrainian resistance See more faster and more persistently than their Russian adversaries at echelon and it gets better every day use of sock is leveraging conus based industry and R&D to help Ukrainian soft counter Russian tactics our Recent counter uas train advise and assist support is enabling Ukrainian forces to innovate at the speed of war We are seeing them employ asymmetric capabilities that rapidly Detect fix and jam Russian uas system severely degrading Russia's reconnaissance strike capability in Ukraine in the information space Our psychological operation soldiers are enabling Ukrainian counterparts with messaging to bolster Ukrainian resilience and resistance through national branding and recruiting Civil affairs are assisting Ukrainian soft mapping resistance Volunteer forces facilitating cross-border delivery of humanitarian supply supplies by coordinating with non-governmental organizations When we look at the utility of the triad in support of a partner force and civilian resistance like Ukraine The possibilities are truly endless Cyber and space capabilities can set conditions with a partner force and relevant populations for special operations during crisis and posture for future combat operations During conflict as a component of the triad Soft supports the army of joint force conflict providing tactical operational strategic advantage through multi-domain operations This is done by converging the triad capabilities to deliver effects that each component simply cannot deliver and achieve on their own Softs contribution to this convergence is through a regular war for a regular warfare core tasks Which include are not limited to forward internal defense unconventional warfare direct action civil affairs operations psychological operations and special reconnaissance I'll give you another direct action conceptual example 75th range of regimen You just saw them win the best squad in the army here yesterday one one team from Charlie company 175 But for the 75th range of regimen And the arm is the army's only joint force capable of conducting a no-notice joint force entry operation Accomplishing the mission and departing the objective in one period of darkness Could be enabled by our special operations aviation regiment and we validate this task With the joint force every three and a half months in this instance triad capabilities could enable relative overmatch for Ranger Lodgement force or a key terrain raid Triad conus base operational support could enable real-time targeting and form the rager force at the initial staging base Integrating integrating space and cyber capabilities during the JFE the joint force entry or key terrain raid Enables an MDO capable range of force to penetrate and disintegrate complex pure adversary C5 ISRT systems at scale Transforming use a sock. We're transforming today just like the whole army is But for us people are a platform and our force design efforts in use sock 2030 We'll seek best to converge triad effects and employ our high-end capabilities across the spectrum of competition crisis and conflict At the two-star headquarters level first special forces command is moving out on a regular warfare transforming or campaigning headquarters to converge Transregional campaigning activities on our NDS threats First special forces command is also experimenting on a deployable two-star special operations joint task force headquarters To better interoperate with the joint force during high-end conflict where their first joint exercise occurring this next summer during Pacific Century 23 and endopaycom theater This will allow soft to employ capabilities and converge triad effects in concert with the army's multi-domain task force It is here where a suggestive and an MDTF could work in concert with the triad using organic cyberspace and long-range Sensing capabilities to generate effects and broader support to the joint force Conversely a suggestive convergence of the triad capabilities could provide relevant targeting data to the MDTF during crisis Or escalation and conflict at the brigade and battalion headquarters level We're experimenting with realigning our soft to leverage the full capability of special forces civil affairs Syops army special operations, aviation's cross-functional teams We're also experimenting with the size of our units of action to better support this approach At the individual level we're seeking methods to develop a technology integrator and a technology innovator specialty MOS to best employ robotics on man's systems coding artificial intelligence and electronic warfare Experimenting with the creation of a warren officer population to embed these capabilities within our unit of action All three of our commands are moving forward on institutionalizing this triad through a series of experiments exercises and engagements in the contact layer Army can't plain plan 2030 calls for the army to deliver an MDO capable force That enables a joint force to penetrate in complex peer adversary defense systems Uses sock as a component of this triad enable this through a regular warfare value proposition So I'll get ready to hand it over to our other two teammates here I look forward to your questions, but I want to leave you this our adversaries are engaging us right now And the in the digital the information on the technological space is now There's no sanctuary here. There's no sanctuary at home and there's no sanctuary at abroad We must modernize to adapt and prepare for high-end conflict While also competing now left a crisis where the opportunities in my opinion are the greatest Tomorrow is too late today is the day. I look forward to your questions Sine Pari So yesterday when I was talking to somebody they came up to me and they said I want to know more about this influence triad And I immediately shot them down not literally This is not just about influence This is about full spectrum. You heard the secretary yesterday talk about active campaigning We want to disrupt adversary actions We want to demonstrate resolve We want to shape the adversaries perceptions and then we want to gain an advantage for the warfighter When deterreds fails This is what we're doing And we're not doing it just for us We're combining our capabilities in in order to support a joint-force commander because that's what it's all about We realize we exist in three functional commands With the different capabilities different authorities How can we downstream where we're at where we live today? Where we're in touch with the adversary today and Combine those effects and deliver them without having to go upstream To the functional commands over to the GCC's and then back down to deliver those effects How army cyber fits into that is we deliver five mission threads operate and defend our networks attack and influence and then across those four in form Commanders what the battle space looks like How well your networks responding? What does the attack surface look like? What does the influence fear look like? What are the trends that the adversary is doing in that information sphere? And so on and so forth What I really think army cyber delivers are some comparative advantages in a few key areas that I'd like to highlight First of all, there is a track record of integrating cyber EW and influence operations We've done it before and so now we can deliver this to my partners over here Having the reps and sets of doing that We also can project this from Fortitude Hall at Fort Gordon or We can do it in an expeditionary manner With our expeditionary cyber teams or our IO teams forward deployed paired up in support of my partners here We also provide a mature cloud based big data analytics platform and the capability to develop tools and applications to enhance those missions and Give insights to my partners here and then lastly We would in terms of the influence area With that big data platform We can sense synthesize and Give understanding to a commander about what the influence environment looks like especially Misinformation and disinformation What are those indicators and trends that need we need to be aware of that influence the commander's decision-making? You've heard about command arms. You're gonna hear that drumbeat a lot here General Bragg already mentioned it We know this from experience I'll tell you five years ago when we started looking at how to apply cyber against the counter ISIS fight We started out with discreet cyber attacks Then we paired our cyber attacks with the schema maneuver by the warfighting commander and The results were Greater than the sum of those two things. This is not we've all seen this over and over again in history And then when we started layering an influence to amplify those effects. It was even greater so This is what this is Let's now take what our cyber does from an integrated standpoint What we know is better with the warfighter Let's take these unique capabilities and authorities and the intelligence that we do within our unique space and Combine those to deliver those to the joint force commander And I'll turn it over to my The last but not least partner Dan Carbler Well, good morning. There's always a danger when I have a microphone up here I'm gonna break into karaoke, but I'll spare everybody that this morning. Hey, remember a few years ago The commercial that was on about pork and they would talk about pork. It's the other white meat. Remember that Well in multi-domain operations space It's the other domain and we have to remember that very well because just as we have land air sea and cyber Space is just as equal and its importance to the warfight as all of our other domains What I want to do here before we take Q&A is I just gonna take it from the from the big and then then down to a little bit more granular Level and and I'm gonna take just not issue with Maria, but she talked about functional Commands, I used to work for a guy named General John Highton when he was the Stratcom commander And he hated being referred to as a functional combat commander as he had more yield In his right hand than anybody else and so he always taught us that he he was truly a global combat command and so I would tell you that the beauty of That my two partners here and with SMDC is we are global Commands We work for we're natural integrators We work for malt we support multiple combat commands and we work across multiple domains And I think that's important because we're all natural integrators here so the triad When you talk about You know this kind of a new idea it is not a new idea This is simply taking what our capabilities are and applying in a combined arms model Think about FM 3.0 right now is about combined arms space Cyber and soft Capabilities in combined arms are no different than bringing together maneuver fires Aviation smoke all the other normal battlefield effectors that you would expect to help accomplish the objective Now within army space Particularly what I want to talk about a little bit is now. How are we supporting the triad in the beauty? Is I get to support us straccom us space common us north com mainly here I'm going to focus on us space command. I have first space brigade which provides capabilities to general Dickinson as In his combatant commander role, but as army space continues to develop We're supporting the multi-domain task forces with our space control companies We have space control planning teams at each of the army service component commands cores and divisions army space support teams providing planning capabilities to those ASCC's and cores and The space control companies support the multi-domain task forces and as we move into the future We will bring space capabilities up to the theater level and support theater army commanders with theater level Space capabilities the theater strike effects group the TSEG will provide that theater level space control capabilities and when then integrated With soft and cyber whether that's the accesses that each of those commanders can provide us Whether it's space capabilities that I'm going to provide them it's going to have a Determined effect on the adversary and it will provide non-lethal effects to our adversaries within and Then when we talk about active campaigning we look at what we are also able to provide on Intel support to space Provide that information Again, whether it's to soft or whether it's a cyber or that supported The supported commander So with that ladies and gentlemen, what I would like to do is bring up my By a partner's here. We will form a triangle so we will have a nice triad right here And we look forward to your questions. Thank you All right, you might have to do the karaoke now then morning gentlemen ma'am Can you pride some? Recent examples of where you have been able to work together Where the sum of your parts is greater Than the whole well I double tap first and what Maria said there before and the really the destruction of the ISIS Caliphate was a combination of both stuff that was done in the physical as well as the cyber Domains and and dimensions there as well as combined so we combine leaf land non-lethal effects for much much more holistic effect That provided Gains on the ground in the physical domain, but it also provided gains in the information domain that Both cyber command was able to do with non-lethal means and then there were some kinetic means that were put into effect for exponentially more impact and And it and actually had a larger impact than any of us actually expected and predicted Before he went down that journey together. That's really informed a lot of my thinking going forward You know before it might have you know cyber might have thought to a lot of people as some strategic Intel and indicators and warnings and just providing access for indication warning but combining with actions to the maneuver force on the ground. I think this really was groundbreaking for For for for leading a lot of different thoughts for how the maneuver force could actually employ this in Combined arms maneuver in a very kinetic fight, but combining those two together I think it shaped a lot of thought moving forward. There are the things we're doing together right now We won't go into those details in this setting So not only is it in the contact layer of things we're working together now, but conceptually we work together Whether it's contributing towards project convergence You know experimentation But we're we're doing it both in again experiments exercises and activities across the globe right now Yeah, I think the only two things I would add to that is Positionally my partners here exist in two very different spaces literally and figuratively and then forward There are some places that they go that maybe I Can't get to and so this is where I would say hey, can you get me close to something? So that I can do X Y and Z the other thing that I'll do and again going back to what would I deliver to them? So they offer me a positional advantage And then can I let them see the environment in a way that perhaps they were not able to do Or if they're downrange and the special operator perhaps doesn't have the time to Take a look at all the data that we're seeing can I offer him something very fast? And very informative to his team's decision-making that might inform their operations Hey, Paul if I could too so I Just went to you a For instance here, so I'm going to put on my air missile defense hat since I have space and missile defense And I just want you to think about our strategic documents that we have that talk about Missile defeat and left of launch So in my missile defense realm, I'm very interested in any kind of left of launch missile defeat capabilities I put on my space hat and I'm pretty good left to launch person and right here. I got two very good left of launch Missile defeat partners here. Hi, sir, ma'am. I'm Nick Chadwick for NT concepts What when I was in use a soccer use a k-pop? we had something called radio in a box and I applaud you for mentioning information operations and The integration between because they have that capability at use a sock in the different Pogs and Information warfare command what I'd like to ask you sir is Have you considered doing machine learning on the Techland or integrating those requirements in the Techland program? We're looking integrating machine learning AI and basically everything we do is as data exponentially gets more and more Enormous and complex. I mean that that is really a sub component of the Army's information advantage efforts Which can you make sense of the senseless of the ever-growing amount of data for a commander to make mission command type decisions? But also when you go back to a regular warfare and influencing relevant populations going back to your background be it civil affairs or Psyops actually cyber command and and And use a sock our cyber and you saw has had a partnership for a long time where people are focused more on the human cognitive Domain and content side has been very has been very complimentary and actually worked for our cyber for the delivery Mechanism side and that's been a partnership going on for quite a long time now What's new now is as we focus more on? You know the NDS priorities that's a that's a growth industry of where we can go with that Machine learning I look at is as critical moving forward For down to the tactical level to be honest with this is why we're exploring with different Skill specialties at the tactical level and we look at the future is soft You know need for forward edge computing for understanding some of that data tapping back into it in the cloud And how do we get that forward in a safe manner through LPI and LPD comms where a soft operator might be contributing towards a You could be part of a special reconnaissance firing solution You know link 16 back up the JADC to that would be actually critical to be processed through machine learning and algorithms that we're working on Yeah, and with it when you're doing operational preparation of the environment And you take all the reams of data in that my g2 is taking taking we can't filter through all that and then we're able To cache a that and then being able to share it with the triad partners here That that makes us all that much more powerful effective and then responsive to the combatant commander Hi, good morning. Davis winky army times I was really struck by the description of this triad as a new combat arms model one Perhaps that happens a little more to the left of armed conflict How does packaging it as a modern combined arms help your combatant commanders who are overwhelmingly maneuver officers Understand what the three of you bring to the table. Thank you Well, whether it's functional global strategic, but there's a lot of special Unique capabilities that reside in each one of the legs of this triad I think anything going to a geographic combatant commander if three of these entities approach with a holistic solution That's going to contribute to their campaign plan is going to be welcome and it has been welcome to the GCCs That I have personally interacted with vice three individual approaches. Hey, I got the best special operation idea in the world I have no idea what space or cyber are doing, but I know what soft is doing that That's that's just one more customer for them to synthesize. So us coming together having already experimented this and presenting a holistic conop that supports their campaign plan and Most importantly general carbons talking about we're inherently global. So while geographic combatant commands have Geographical problems that the NDS priorities are global and transregional by nature Which we actually provide an outsize effect coming to the geographic combat command with concepts and conops that are already synchronized hopefully transregional and it's and it's practiced in the tier one exercises I mean between general Nakasone and then general Clark and general Dickinson. It is practice. This isn't It's not new the what we're doing as a combined arms. We're just We're just making sure that we're staying synchronized and maybe formalizing a little bit better But it isn't anything new that we've been that we haven't been doing in our different tier one exercises I want to hit on the GCC part I think the last time I was in a forum talking about this I asked the audience raise your hand if somebody came to you and said I have a really great idea to take three capabilities into a conop and integrate them, but you have to do all the work What how would that be received and you're right? They're busy and so I Think this is if we can this is the downstream piece at the army level Can we deliver something into them that is already there and and and and that's much better Okay, thanks everybody. It looks like we ran out of time. We get the flash card hooked there But hopefully, you know, we help paint the picture a little bit of what we're looking at is very important today's challenges across You know for the United States and our national security and hopefully we answer some of your questions, but thanks. I really appreciate your time