Digital Warriors: Improving Military Capabilities for Cyber Operations

There is widespread agreement that cyberspace is now a domain of warfare, and many people regard it as the most difficult, perplexing national security challenge we face. Certainly the laws, policies, and organizations have not kept pace with the evolution of technology. But if cyberspace is important to our country's security and if it is a domain of warfare, our military services, on whom we rely to protect and defend us, must be prepared to operate in cyberspace as well. That preparation involves a number of issues, including organizational structure, recruitment and retention of qualified personnel, training, rapid acquisition, among others; and it is those issues which we want to examine in today's hearing.