SAN ANTONIO , TX — The assembly mentioned related cyber operations in San Antonio and spotlight the connection between the navy and the San Antonio group.
U.S. Air Pressure Col. Andrew Steffen, Commander of NSA – Texas, was additionally in attendance.
Palacios offered a mission temporary on the scope of sixteenth Air Pressure companies, mission & imaginative and prescient, and world presence. He highlighted the altering panorama concerning twenty first century warfare and the way offensive assaults are performed, necessitating a necessity for a specialised technologically superior department inside our navy.
Earlier than the sixteenth Air Pressure was stood up in 2019, there have been info associated capabilities inside the Air Pressure all working in their very own particular person range pipes, defined Palacios.
“The knowledge surroundings processes by means of all of those things—the cost was easy. How will we combine, synchronize and defend info associated capabilities that aren’t siloed with our regular info capabilities of climate, ISR, cyber, info operations and the electromagnetic spectrum?”
The sixteenth Air Pressure was activated to synchronize all of that functionality to leverage the totality of the data surroundings, Palacios mentioned.
“When LT. Gen. Timothy Haugh and the employees stood up the NAF (Numbered Air Pressure) they approached its growth by means of three traces of effort: producing perception, competitors, and getting ready for escalation,” mentioned Palacios.
Palacios emphasised the expansiveness of the NAF working in areas inside the info surroundings to incorporate world climate predictions, warfighter communications, cyber and globally built-in ISR because the Air Pressure’s first Info Warfare Numbered Air Pressure.
With 128 worldwide areas and over 40,000 lively obligation, civilian, aligned guard, and reserve members, sixteenth Air Pressure accounts for 10 p.c of the whole Air Pressure – making certain success in securing globally built-in info warfare outcomes.
Col. Rockhill engaged in a dialogue surrounding navy presence and the San Antonio ecosystem.
Rockhill introduced up a private remark detailing how models in different areas across the U.S. leverage the strengths of the communities they’re situated in to substantiate the bond between the navy and the group.
“We’ve aggregated and centralized securing the frequent daily person expertise IT community. We needed to centralize the operation know-how—the AFIN,” mentioned Rockhill.
Rockhill mentioned the historical past of the wing in addition to the evolution of the wing’s mission to offer, defend and prolong the IT infrastructure and AFIN throughout the Air Pressure— creating fusion and figuring out price efficiencies.
“The place we’re headed is that Airmen must be superb with knowledge stream”.
They should perceive knowledge flow– not simply within the frequent person stream however perceive in an operational sense, mentioned Rockhill.
“Now what have been nervous about is finish to finish securing the mission expertise and enabling these issues that provide you with convergence.”
