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Carley Welch

Washington, D.C., United States

Journalist at Freelance

Networks and Digital Warfare Reporter at Breaking Defense

Networks and Digital Warfare Reporter @BreakingDefense, past: Politico & The Messenger | email: cwelch at breaking media dot com

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  • To protect F-47 plans from hackers, Boeing should lean on CMMC, zero trust: DoD official

    5 days ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    TECHNET CYBER 2025 — In order to keep the plans for the US Air Force’s highly classified F-47 fighter secure from hackers, prime contractor Boeing will have to rely on the Department of Defense’s cybersecurity measures such as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and zero trust, Katie Arrington told Breaking Defense.

  • How a key Pentagon tech leader plans on 'blowing up' outdated software risk framework

    6 days ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    TECHNET CYBER 2025 — When Katie Arrington walked back into the Pentagon in her role to perform the duties of the DoD’s Chief Information Officer, she was determined to pick up where she left off during the first Trump administration. That meant a laser-focus on trying to shift the Pentagon toward a culture of “secure by design,” she told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview. That includes, she said, “blowing up” what she called an outdated Pentagon Risk Management Framework (RMF).

  • Pentagon deploys offensive cyber ops to target criminal orgs, bolster southern border security

    1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    TECHNET CYBER 2025 — The Department of Defense is using offensive cyber capabilities to bolster security at the southern border and disrupt the “illicit” behavior of transnational criminal organizations, the Defense Secretary’s chief cyber advisor said today. Ashley Manning said the DoD has seen an uptick in the use of cyberspace by transnational criminal organizations to conduct drug trafficking, human smuggling, money laundering and more. The DoD’s solution: Disrupt their networks.

  • DISA officials push for stricter data standards across COCOMs, allies for CJADC2 effort

    1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    TECHNET CYBER 2025 — Officials from the Defense Information Systems Agency called for stricter data standardization policies for data sharing between combatant commands and allies on Tuesday, arguing that the disparate and siloed networks across theaters are hindering the department from making progress in its Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) initiative.

  • DISA turns to AI, automation to bridge workforce gaps, attempts to stay on track with JWCC 2.0

    1 week ago | breakingdefense.com | Carley Welch

    TECHNET CYBER 2025 — The Defense Information System Agency is exploring using automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning to find and fill capabilities gaps brought on by workforce vacancies, the director of DISA’s J9 Hosting and Compute hub, said today.

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Carley Welch
Carley Welch @carley_welch_
18 Apr 25

RT @BreakingDefense: Defense Innovation Unit seeks undersea drone capable of ‘long-range’ payload deployment https://t.co/l76giXwKdb

Carley Welch
Carley Welch @carley_welch_
17 Apr 25

Having grown to 100,000 users worldwide, the Pentagon’s favorite big-data analytics system now needs the legal authorities and budgetary stability of a formal Program of Record. From @SydneyFreedberg and I Read here: https://t.co/jbgCoYwepN

Carley Welch
Carley Welch @carley_welch_
16 Apr 25

RT @dave_brown24: 🚨BREAKING: A third Pentagon official has been put on leave and escorted out of the Pentagon on suspicion of leaking. Coli…