MMPS: AMMO Killer → Space, SEAL + 1Cyborg©
Natural Born Gamers, ready for Matlock Multi-Point Precision System (MMPS)© and Advanced Massively Multiplayer Online game, AMMO Killer→ Space + SEAL + 1Cyborg©.
A ‘call to arms’ appears to have been in the works since my 2022 paper, US Air Force “Blue Max” is AWOL!
Holy shit! Kill chain + Data risk + Kill switch = Jack in the Box? The Guardsman “wanted to kill a ‘ton of people’: US.” Hmm, augmented reality or reality? Will “Army developing faster, improved data ‘kill chain’ for lethal and non-lethal fires” succeed or fail its missions?
Says Army expert, “one of the challenges in modernizing the kill chain process is the increasing amount of data Army leaders receive due to the increased use of sensors and communications systems on satellites, aircraft, drones, vehicles and even Soldiers.”
Answer is right in front of you. →Two key missing components! ‡‡
Semiconductor design glitch? Pentagon, can you afford to have a ‘kill chain’ without a ‘kill switch?” Hell, Army can’t even afford to train their crews and keep their choppers safe. And it gets riskier and steeper with F-35s.
In the 2008 “Hunt for the Kill Switch,” instead of wet dreams you had “fever dreams plaguing the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD).” Why? You see, unlike a smartphone or an E-vehicle, “A single plane like the DOD’s next generation F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, can contain an “insane number” of chips.”
Imagine two scenarios: kill-switch or backdoor? A “shut off an F-35’s missile-launching electronics… backdoor, by contrast, lets outsiders gain access to the system through code or hardware to disable or enable a specific function… enemy could use it to bypass battlefield radio encryption.”
Now imagine defense satellites. No fail safe: 15 years or six months.
DoD, how long do you think it will take for this ‘mikey mouse’ CHIP Act to counter offshoring to the East, a problem going back to 1960s? You failed to safeguard stockpile and the command & control of supply chain logistics.
But ya got another problem. Who’s gonna ‘man’ your armor & aircraft or navigate your UAVs? Need trained soldiers. But first ya gotta bait them with Cyber games!!!
Recruiting Conduits via Cyber Games
Game of ‘bait-n-switch?” How is recruiting and retention going for Space Force? Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall responded, “It’s a little bit of a challenge. Space Force doesn’t have an issue because it’s so small. Space Force by the end of the year is going to be about 8500 people. The active Air Force is about 330,000…”
SIR, it doesn’t look good when one of NASA’s contractors say otherwise. Pratish Shah is the General Manager of the United States operations of leading satellite solutions manufacturer Aitech. He stated, “We are dealing with a 20 to 30 year gap in space interest and skilled space personnel, many of whom are now retiring.”
Army says retention numbers aren’t the problem. Sure, it helps when those in high command positions as General James McConville are asked to stay on a bit longer. But you can’t keep them on forever. General, hear you’re looking to retire in Montana. Can’t say I blame you. Many a time I daydream of Taylor Sheridan’s “Yellowstone” finding myself in a spring with Kevin Costner.
Need to ‘bite the bullet’ and face the music. Gone are the days of the ‘Yankee Doodle’ dance. Army says, “Need to do a better job of telling our story.” Heads up! Next Gens aren’t buying it.
Tactics of only bringing out the ‘Gameboxes’ and toys for competitions are not working. Cyber + Army = CyberPatriot? Sure, for years they’ve been having Cybersecurity Competitions for middle and high school students.
Speaking of competitions, Pentagon’s Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability JWCC contract was awarded to “Amazon Web Services, Google, Oracle and Microsoft…to essentially do some early poking and prodding about what JWCC could be capable of.”
Let me get this straight. So all the fuss and delay as well as scrapping of the JEDI for a measly 3.8 million a pop to each vendor was just to poke and prod? Question is will you scrap this contract, said to be “worth up to $8 billion,” and go back to the drawing board again? Guess if one really wants to have fun and ‘penetrate’ then you gotta pay up front. 🙂
DOD, what is so ‘top secret’ about “level offerings of JWCC?” Seems to me you’re building on a weak foundation. Appears “Joint All Domain Command and Control, DoD’s effort to connect sensors to shooters across land, sea, air, space and cyberspace domains,” is proving to be mission impossible for YOU.
Pentagon, was JEDI ‘accomplished’ and competition in the cloud created as a way to misdirect or distract? Recall my May 2022 paper, Power of the Puppet Master Ӫ Surveillance in the Cloud, where I point to the Cyberspace Race: From JEDI to JWCC.
The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) project “was meant to store and process vast amounts of classified data, allowing the U.S. military to improve communications with soldiers on the battlefield and use artificial intelligence to speed up its war planning and fighting capabilities.”
So WTF happened? Right, the “Microsoft job cuts hit HoloLens unit after setback on Army goggles.” Perhaps you overlooked holograms. As I point out on spacedefcommand.com
“Development of hologram technology had been reserved for defense and security but is no longer cost-prohibited for commercial use. As a countermeasure to competing forces, Młock1© is equipped with a laser illuminating multi-dimensional images to misdirect probes and satellites.“
Back to Recruits. Boys and Girls, Hacking more your game? There’s the National Cyber League NCL where “competition involves a ‘capture the flag’ game where you are tasked with hacking a server to find ‘flags.’ Nice patriotic touch in promoting ‘battles’ against foreign adversaries.
DOD, just don’t make the same mistake of 30 years ago when an alert pointed to ‘risk of cyber terrorism’ and a counter-attack was put on the table. In the end, it appears you listened to James A. Lewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies.
“When DOD computer networks were penetrated in an attack…U.S. was quick to suspect potential opponents, particularly Iraq or China, as the culprit.” So who dunnit?
What for it…………Yep, ”two high school students in southern California.” No surprise that “To this day, the vast majority of hacking incidents result from the actions of recreational hackers.” Hmm, maybe we should give these boys something to do. Just like Jack boy! 🙂
On cyber, Kendall was asked “How does the US Air Force and the Space Force work with Military branches to defeat cyberattacks and develop capabilities to defend even large attacks from disrupt potential enemies?” His response does not inspire confidence.
“Cyber Command…It’s something that I think we need to revisit constantly to see how it’s going…need for more technical oversight, standardization, design control from the Secretary of Defense’s office…”
Sir, how do you compete with adversaries who are 10, 20 and 30 years ahead of the game? You admitted, not only has China been building capability “to defeat our 5th generation capability but how to defeat our 6th generation capability.” You not only need more ‘good shooters’ you need the right equipment!
‘Technical Oversight?’ No amount of money will bring in talent unless you recruit from abroad.
After hearing talk of conscription some years ago, I signed up for a course to get some insight. It was taught by a talented and highly skilled Network Administrator who graduated and worked at U.S. Air Force.
Of a class of 30, judging by their surname, majority were from India, Middle East, China, Eastern Europe or Latin America, two white Caucasian and no African Americans. Speaking with Faculty at other schools, demographic turn out is roughly the same.
News Alert! Army admitted less than 48 hours ago that they were presented with a proposal to recruit skilled Afghan women. Problem? Language. Really? What about the ‘translators’ DoD employed while stationed 20 years in Afghanistan? Could it be you don’t trust them?
So what are you going to have these non-English speaking Afghan refugees do, and the thousands transported to the U.S., in return for financially assisting them using taxpayer’s money? How do you reconcile these expenditures when U.S. soldiers are facing issues with housing and quality of life?
Back to Cyber. I remind you, when it comes to ‘Collective Defense and Cybersecurity,’ Lewis makes a strong argument in pointing out that although “an adequate cyberdefense would be multifaceted; few if any nations have such a defense in place.”
Question is, how valid is the risk assessment when “no nation has placed its military forces in a position where they are dependent on computer networks that are vulnerable to outside attack. This greatly limits the effectiveness of cyber weapons.”
Makes you think twice of those companies selling apps and software to ‘protect your identity’ and your servers. So have they been f$$ding on your fears? Think about it. Chances of Real Air terrorist attacks or Augmented Reality online?
“Cyber-terrorism has attracted considerable attention, but to date, it has meant little more than propaganda, intelligence collection or the digital equivalent of graffiti…No critical infrastructures have been shut down by cyber attacks.”
Once again, I remind you, the planes that crashed into the Twin Towers and Pentagon were your own. Failure to guard well your commercial air space put you in a weak position.
Pentagon, no matter how many times you rename your joint projects, programs or systems (i.e. JEDI, TITAN, JTCCS), you have yet to build a Matlock Multi-Point Precision System (MMPS)©. Unlike JWCC, MMPS is highly capable and equipped to strike and terminate INTENDED targets at any range.
Let me be crystal clear, a symbiotic system is only as secure as the working sum of its parts.Without highly trained Manpower and Advanced equipment across Key Domains, you don’t stand a chance.
Hey Yanks, how about a game of AMMO Killer → Space, SEAL + 1Cyborg© to see you in action against Israel, China, Ruski’s and Iran! 🙂
