Mark Pomerleau

4 days ago | defensescoop.com | Mark Pomerleau

Skip to main content U.S. Cyber Command played a role in American military’s operation against Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, according to top Pentagon officials. “The strike package was supported by U.S. Strategic Command, U.S. Transportation Command, U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Space Command, U.S. Space Force and U.S. European command,” Gen. Dan Caine, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told reporters in a briefing at the Pentagon Sunday morning, later thanking the cyber...

1 week ago | defensescoop.com | Mark Pomerleau

As the Army seeks to continue its transformation effort to become more efficient, the department’s chief information officer is looking to streamline systems and processes. And no longer will “that’s the way it’s always been done” be an acceptable justification for maintaining the status quo. There have been directives from top levels of Army leadership to cut down on business systems and automate capabilities where possible.

1 week ago | defensescoop.com | Mark Pomerleau

ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. — Maj. Gen. Patrick Ellis will be the next commander of 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson, Colorado. The move is significant as 4th ID is slated to be the primary experimental unit for the Army’s Next Generation Command and Control as that system aims to scale up to division level. NGC2 is one of the the Army’s top modernization priorities.

1 week ago | defensescoop.com | Mark Pomerleau

Brandon Pugh has been selected as the Army’s principal cyber adviser, according to a LinkedIn post. Pugh, who will be the third person to hold that role, most recently was director and a resident senior fellow for the R Street Institute’s Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats team. Additionally, he is an Army reservist serving as a national security law professor at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, having previously been a paratrooper as well.

2 weeks ago | defensescoop.com | Mark Pomerleau

After almost a decade in the making, the Army is pivoting from its airborne electronic jammer, among other changes to the service’s electronic warfare offerings, according to a top official. The service has decided to move on from the current Multi-Function Electronic Warfare Air Large (MFEW-AL) platform and approach. MFEW is the Army’s only airborne electronic warfare — with limited cyber — capability organic to combat aviation brigades to support maneuver commanders on the ground.