Q&A: Brigadier General Jeffrey W. Foley
Written by Harrison Donnelly
Fielding More IT Capability for the Army Than Ever Before
Brigadier General Jeffrey W. Foley
Commanding General
Army Signal Center and Fort Gordon
Since his initial assignment at Fort Bragg in the 50th Signal Battalion, 35th Signal Brigade, Foley has held a variety of command and staff positions in units throughout the world. He commanded A Co, 304th Signal Battalion, 1st Signal Brigade in Korea, the 57th Signal Battalion, 3rd Signal Brigade, Fort Hood, Texas, and the 35th Signal Brigade, Fort Bragg, N.C.
Foley’s staff assignments include: S-1 and assistant S-3 for the 50th Signal Battalion; assistant S-3 for 93rd Signal Brigade, VII Corps during operations Desert Shield and Storm; S-3 and XO for the 51st Signal Battalion, 22nd Signal Brigade, V Corps in Germany; and brigade S-3 for 3rd Signal Brigade, III Corps at Fort Hood. He also served at the Army Signal Center at Fort Gordon in both the Directorate of Combat Developments and later as the chief of staff. Most recently, he served as the director, architecture, operations, networks and space, CIO/G6, Pentagon. His joint assignments include U.S. Forces-Korea J6 staff, on the joint staff in the J6 CinC Operations Division, and as the J6/chief information officer-director of command and control communications, computer systems for U.S. Central Command, Mac- Dill Air Force Base, Fla.
Foley was interviewed by MIT Editor Harrison Donnelly.
Q: The world of information technology continues to transform the military. What is it like to be in the Signal Corps during this time of great transition?
A: It is an absolutely exciting place to be, for sure, as we are fielding more IT capability throughout the Army than ever before. The results are unprecedented in our history—as we are collecting and disseminating more information [voice, data, video] than ever, to and from lower echelons, including an individual soldier, which means increased probability of mission accomplishment with less risk of losing soldiers. The value and potential of Future Combat System [FCS], the delivery of WIN-T to our force, the fielding of Rifleman Radio—the first delivered of the JTRS fleet of radios—all are great examples of these new, very powerful capabilities enabling our forces. We, the Signal Regiment, are in the middle of this whole transformation.
Q: It cannot be easy fighting the war, transforming and trying to keep up with new technology. What are your biggest challenges?
A: Great question—because it is not easy. Our challenges and priorities of work are clearly laid out in our Signal Center Campaign Plan written by the team at the Signal Center of Excellence and approved by me in March 2008. This plan includes a 500-day plan, which serves as our execution portion of the plan and includes 111 specified tasks to be accomplished within 500 days.
My first major challenge is training the force—both inside the brick and mortar of the schoolhouse here at Fort Gordon and delivering a capability to home station or deployed locations to ensure signal soldiers have or are maintaining the technical skills necessary to be successful on the battlefield. This also includes leadership training— those skills unrelated to signal, but totally related to leading people. Also, we are constantly assessing what to train, where to train to best support fielded systems, and how to address the ever-increasing need to secure our networks in the cyber world.
My second biggest challenge is deliver the future communications transport capability for our force, such as the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical [WIN-T], the Joint Tactical Radio System [JTRS], and future aerial and satellite capabilities. We must get the requirements for these systems right and help the PM get delivered on time and on schedule. As we introduce more IT systems to the Army, we must ensure that the manpower required to operate, maintain and install it is resourced, in place and organically structured.
Q: How have you tailored your signal force structure to keep pace?
A: That’s our third major challenge: to get our signal force structure right to support the transformed Army. This challenge is all about people, ensuring we have the right military occupational specialties [MOS], with the right skills identified, and growth potential for soldiers and officers. We work closely with Human Resources Command [HRC] to manage 17 MOSs, and four warrant and four officer specialties in more than 923 tables of organization and equipment. We are continuously working with TRADOC HQs and DA to get the right signal force structure correct in the operational force. Additionally, over the past year we really focused on getting the right signal institutional structure right at the combat training centers. These are all critical tasks.
Q: What have you done to update Army signal doctrine in light of the transformation to a modular force and the adoption of Land-WarNet?
A: During the last five years we have made monumental progress in updating signal doctrine publications, with considerable help from NETCOM and the deployed troops. The number of publications was reduced from 28 FMs and STs to 19 to support transformation. Among the most important was FMI 6-02.45, “Signal Support to Theater Operations,” which addresses the Expeditionary Signal Battalion support to theater operations based on their redesign. FMI 6-02.60, “Tactics, Techniques and Procedures [TTPs] for the Joint Network Node-Network,” was developed to support the initial fielding of the JNN to the 3ID during 2005–2006 and is now under revision to include WIN-T Increments 1 and 2. FMI 6-02.70, “Army Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations,” is the first of its kind and addresses the monumental challenge of spectrum operations and includes the integration of the new MOS 25E, battlefield spectrum manager. We are also collecting TTPs and SOPs being used by the signal communities serving in divisions, brigades and signal units and making them available throughout the Army through our Websites. Updating doctrine is a critical task for the Signal Center as we keep pace with Army doctrine and transformation.
Q: How is the Army taking advantage of all current and newly deployed Department of Defense satellite systems?
A: Today, we are over-relying on the commercial satellite constellations to support the Army. The simple response is that we are attacking with rigor to increase our capability to use these new military satellites as they are essential to our current and future architecture. The main military satellite capability we are aggressively pursuing are X- and Ka-bands of the WGS constellation, the Mobile User Objective System [MUOS], and MILSTAR, which I’ll describe briefly.
We incorporate multiple frequency bands in our wideband terminals to ensure maximum operational flexibility in LandWarNet. Phoenix terminals were developed as flexible, quad-band systems that will use the X- and Ka-bands of WGS, as well as commercial C- and Ku-bands. Army’s WIN-T Increment 1 program delivered JNN Satellite Tactical Terminals [STT] for use over Ku commercial today, and they are being upgraded with Ka-band WGS capability. WIN-T Increment 2 will deliver wideband SATCOM-on-the-move utilizing WGS Ka-band and commercial Ku-band. GBS was developed to provide high-capacity broadcast capability over both WGS Ka and commercial Ku-bands.
In UHF we continue to maximize the limited resources on current UFO satellites by utilizing Demand Assigned Multiple Access [DAMA] in current TACSAT systems and are moving to a more efficient integrated waveform for additional user support until MUOS becomes available. The JTRS program is incorporating the MUOS waveform into the man-pack terminal [Increment 1] and future increments will develop a handheld MUOS capability.
In the protected arena, we have fielded our SMART-T terminal, for use over MILSTAR to provide anti-jam protection for critical users. These terminals will be upgraded to leverage the increased capabilities provided by AEHF satellites. We are fully engaged with TSAT and will develop and incorporate protected COTM SATCOM terminals into the WIN-T architecture [WIN-T Increment 4] in time to meet the initial launch of TSAT in 2019.
So you can see, we have enormous requirements for the current and future MILSATCOM constellation, and, when delivered, there will be a monumental increase in capability provided to warfighters.
Q: In addition to SATCOM, what other means of extending the network range are being developed—aerial layer, Tropo, HF—and what are the associated benefits?
A: SATCOM resources are finite and expensive, and our adversaries are striving to negate our advantages in space, so we are developing several alternative solutions to extend the network. For those reasons we continue to pursue balance in the four layers of transport capability: line of sight, beyond line of sight [BLOS], aerial and satellite. Today, we’re out of balance and too reliant on satellites. As demands for bandwidth continue to grow exponentially, we need the other layers to deliver more capability. These capabilities include constant, high-capacity connectivity, regardless of distance, terrain or conditions, enabling the sharing of voice, video, data and imagery required for battlespace awareness, command and control, protection, focused logistics, and force application.
Networked radios with the new complex waveforms will provide capability like no other radios we have had in our history—in the line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight modes. These radios and waveforms are found in the JTRS and WIN-T families and others. Tropospheric scatter terminals [Tropo] provide proven valuable, terrestrial BLOS communications capabilities and have been a staple in our inventory for decades. The Army recently upgraded its AN/TRC-170 Tropo system to provide higher capacity terrestrial BLOS communications and is conducting an analysis of requirements to develop future Tropo capabilities.
In fact, for the first time in many, many years, we are training Tropo here at the home of the Signal Regiment! We teamed with General Dynamics and the Air Force detachment at Fort Gordon to conduct Tropo training for our 25Q soldiers on the tactical track for ASI 7D. Our first 13 graduates completed training in February and reported to their units fully qualified and able to make a difference upon arrival. We project 250–300 students will complete the Tropo training in FY09. This training is in direct response to requests from commanders in the operational force.
Let me update where we are on the aerial layer—the next critical layer of our architecture. Last May the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff signed our Aerial Layer Network Transport Initial Capabilities Document. This document lays the foundation for further development of network extension capabilities via high-, medium- and low-altitude air platforms. The Army recently fielded communications relay packages on several unmanned aircraft systems, with additional capabilities planned for this summer. In the near term, we’re in hot pursuit of improved aerial layer capability as we finalize development of the WIN-T, high-altitude, long-endurance platforms, joint airborne and FCS gateway nodes.
Q: What part is your command playing in the ongoing development and implementation of WIN-T?
A: WIN-T is the Army’s flagship communications program; it is already bringing unprecedented capability to the force. It is paramount that we get it right to ensure it provides the necessary capability that we need on the battlefield. We at Fort Gordon serve as the TRADOC capability manager [TCM] for this program, and I’m very proud of the progress made by the program manager through his delivery of Increment 1 to 80 percent of the active force. This program is delivering more capacity to more echelons, including down to company level, than ever before. I am equally excited about the powerful capabilities that future increments deliver, most specifically Increment 2, which brings true network mobility to the battlefield, and the capability to implement large networks with fewer frequencies; that’s the spectral efficiency I mentioned. Increment 2 also provides a new capability enabled by the new High-band Networking Radio and its associated High-band Networking waveform. In fact, we’re in dialogue with the Marines; they’re very interested in our Increment 2 capabilities. Of course, ensuring adequacy of world-class training programs for soldiers to operate and maintain these systems is also a core competency of ours. Increment 3 will be the critical enabler for FCS—the Army’s flagship program, bringing even more capability to our maneuver forces.
Q: What part is your command playing in the ongoing development and implementation of JTRS?
A: As the TCM for JTRS, we are the user advocate for the joint ground force and work closely with the program managers throughout the entire development process.
What makes JTRS systems different from WIN-T systems is that these radios are general-purpose user devices, which means that non-signal soldiers are the target operator in the same way all soldiers operate SINCGARS radios today. Signal soldiers will, however, be required to maintain these radios, design the networks, manage the communications security key material and ensure integration of these networks with battlefield systems. We are genuinely proud of the first instantiation of a JTRS device—the Rifleman radio, called the HMS in JTRS vernacular. Early prototypes have been delivered to Fort Bliss for some testing in operational units. Future capability provided by the JTRS program will bring networked radios to the force, including being a foundation for the FCS program.
Q: How will WIN-T, JTRS and other planned communications benefit the operational force, including the dismounted soldier?
A: These programs together will, for the first time ever, connect the soldier to the network. They will provide unprecedented information to the lowest levels in our Army, ultimately enabling battle command like never before. And our soldiers who have been fielded WIN-T Inc 1 are performing at the highest levels; they’re doing great with it.
The future network strategy is designed to improve warfighter capabilities and ensure no capabilities are diminished in the process. The strategy centers on implementation of WIN-T and regional Network Service Center [NSC] capabilities, JTRS and SATCOM systems between 2009 and 2025. The strategy relies upon new complex wave forms and is aligned with the WIN-T program’s incremental implementation approach and schedule. By developing and fielding incremental capabilities for the network, the Army can improve near-term, warfighting capabilities while fully supporting the unique requirements that will be generated by the FCS program. In addition, incremental delivery of network capability will allow programs to leverage technology advances in both the military and commercial sectors. The strategy will provide the right capabilities to the right units across the force, while enhancing interoperability with the other services, government agencies and coalition partners.
Q: How are you keeping your institutional training curriculum relevant at Fort Gordon?
A: We recognize the importance of this question. Let me preface with this: We train 16 different skills, over 12,000 students annually, and we run the largest NCO academy in TRADOC. Signal advanced individual training is the toughest in our history, both in terms of training new soldiers in basic combat skills and teaching/educating them on more complex communications systems than ever before. The training mission has many dimensions, but it is so important that we get it right. Here’s what we’re doing on the institutional side to stay relevant.
First, based on lessons learned from OIF and OEF, we have revised what we train for every signal soldier, warrant and officer, including our two functional area officers—FA 24 and FA 53. We are working with the National Guard and Reserve forces to help keep their programs of instruction current as well. Approximately 85 percent of our military cadre has recent combat experience, which helps keep us current. We have a constant rotation of signal leaders returning from OIF/ OEF divisions and brigades who come to Fort Gordon to update the cadre on what is happening in the war to ensure we stay current. Recognizing the need to better train and equip majors with the necessary skill sets in their roles as brigade S6, we established the brigade S6 course over a year ago, which is now mandatory for officers being assigned to these positions. I recently signed a memorandum of agreement with Microsoft that established the Signal School as the only certified Microsoft school in DoD, and the largest in the world. We have other agreements with Cisco, Adobe and NetApp to provide the highest levels of professional IT training to our students. In fact, we are piloting a program with about 15 percent of our 25B initial entry soldiers to get them Cisco-certified Security Plus prior to arrival at their units. Again, this was in response to the field as expressed by FORSCOM G6. We are in pursuit of world-class training and education in all areas; we aren’t slowing down.
Q: How are you helping train soldiers who are not at Fort Gordon, but at their home stations or at their deployed locations?
A: It is my responsibility as the commandant of the Signal School to help train signaleers anywhere in the world. We have powerful capabilities beyond the brick and mortar of the schoolhouse that are easily accessible to soldiers who require training/education, or to sustain skills they already have. We, with our partners from CECOM and NETCOM, deployed 94 mobile training teams in FY08 to assist units preparing for deployment, BNCOC, specialized training in IA, and other technology skills. In FY09 we are projecting over 200 MTTS. Our distance-learning capability at LandWarNet eUniversity reached record levels in FY08, and we continue to grow in capacity and currency. More than 70,000 registered users now, 9 GBs of training material download daily, and now over 200 signal unit online training universities established—a seven-fold increase over the last 18 months. There are 624 products available to download, including 26 simulations and 180 actual courses.
We recently published combined arms training strategies [CATS] for two types of units: the signal company in the Brigade Combat Team (BCT) and in the Sustainment Brigade. Each unit type has an active component and a reserve component, so that’s four different CATS. The CATS replace previous mission training plan manuals and are tremendously useful for signal units to plan training on collective tasks. We’re now working CATS for seven unit types: expeditionary signal battalion and company, joint/area heavy signal company, tactical theater signal brigade, combat camera, tactical installation and networking-enhanced, and division signal company. Next year we’ll develop six more unit types: corps and strategic signal companies, theater signal command, strategic signal brigade (OCONUS and CONUS), and the strategic signal battalion.
Q: What is the Global Network Enterprise Construct and how will it affect the Army?
A: The Global Network Enterprise Construct [GNEC] is a new term developed over the past year that captures an Army-wide strategy to transition LandWarNet—the Army’s portion of the Global Information Grid—from many loosely affiliated independent networks into a true global capability that is designed, deployed and managed as a single integrated enterprise. Through globally available NSCs, GNEC provides warfighters a global plug-and-play capability through all phases of joint operations. GNEC centralizes control of the LandWarNet Enterprise Network under the single command of the Army NETCOM. This makes LandWarNet less vulnerable to attack; realizes economies and efficiencies with improved effectiveness; and organizes the Army’s information to make it useful to and accessible anywhere in the world. Enhanced enterprise IT governance will create an Army-wide decision-enabling framework that ensures IT resources are managed to effectively and efficiently meet warfighter-required capabilities. Simply stated, GNEC will operationalize LandWarNet, dramatically improve network defense posture, realize economies and efficiencies while improving effectiveness, and ensure joint interoperability across DoD. Certainly this is not an overnight task—we are developing a campaign plan that implements phases of this plan over the next three to five years.
Q: What is the Signal Center of Excellence doing to improve spectrum support to the Army and to joint operations?
A: Available spectrum has become one of the most critical battlefield resources. Proliferation of emitters continues to be an issue in GWOT as we add network and weapons systems capability on the battlefield. To this end the Signal Center developed and pursued initiatives for electromagnetic spectrum operations [EMSO] to include writing new doctrine, developing a career field for spectrum managers, and collaborating with the electronic warfare community joint forces engaged in current operations. To be clear, we are the subject-matter experts on spectrum. It is one of our core competencies as outlined in our proponent regulations.
Two years ago we created the primary MOS of 25E, the spectrum manager. Prior to this time, signal soldiers would become frequency managers through training, the assignment of an ASI, and be assigned in some of the few billets we had in divisions, corps and signal units. We created the MOS to help professionalize the force with career growth from SSG to SGM. We vastly increased the numbers of billets that include having 25E in brigades.
Spectrum training has been incorporated into five different courses in the schoolhouse, and several EW courses taught in other locations within TRADOC. The 25E course began in January 2008; we have graduated 28 25E soldiers, but we are still critically short at the staff sergeant level and are working with HRC and our proponent office. Distance learning modules have been incorporated into our eUniversity program, and spectrum has been incorporated into many of the mobile training teams deployed all over CONUS. Signal officers also play critical roles in spectrum operations. In fact, our signal officers are eligible to attend the Joint Spectrum Manager Course and the EMSO course at Fort Gordon to earn the SI 5D.
In December 2007 we published the first-ever Concepts Capability Plan on Electro-magnetic Spectrum Operations, which sets the foundation for making spectrum a tool that enhances warfighting capability rather than restricting it. Concerted efforts by all TCMs and PMs to achieve spectral efficiency wherever possible must be taken. The efficient use of spectrum is everybody’s business and requires all to help address.
Q: What is the Signal Regiment’s role in the newly released Army doctrine on electronic warfare?
A: The Signal Center has been intimately involved in the work that led to the establishment of an EW career field and FM 3-36 Electronic Warfare Operations and Joint Publication 3-13.1 Electronic Warfare. While related, there are two very distinct roles for EW soldiers and signal soldiers responsible for EMSO. EW focuses on enemy operations, while EMSO focuses on supporting friendly operations and preventing frequency fratricide. Simply, the Army looks at EW as a weapon system that needs to be treated like other weapon systems. Doctrine recognizes the requirement for electronic warfare planners to coordinate directly with the communications/network planners [S6/G6/J6] during the planning stage, as they have a critical role in the electronic protect portion of EW as outlined in FM 3-0. And again, one of our Signal Regiment core competencies is EMSO.
Q: What is the Signal Regiment’s role in the newly released Army doctrine on knowledge management?
A: The Army published two new doctrinal manuals that address knowledge management, and the Signal Center was influential in both. The art of managing knowledge or information is not new by any means. The KM term is used and misunderstood often. FM 6-01.1 defines KM as the “art of creating, organizing, applying and transferring knowledge to facilitate situational understanding and decision-making.” The KM lead for any organization is the person who has the expertise to know what information needs to be made available to whom and where. We in the Signal Regiment are enablers of KM as we possess the technical skills for the Army to deliver that information when and where required—that’s the science part of KM.
In the newly designed KM Cell in a Corps HQs, there will be five people, including two signal officers, an FA 53 major [information systems manager] and a master sergeant [E8] 25B. These two signaleers will lead the execution of tasks necessary to enable KM in the corps, and clearly supported by the Corps G6 team. There is considerable training in all aspects of networks, information systems, transport systems, and other topics ongoing at the Signal School today providing the essential skills to officers, warrant officers and NCOs to provide skills necessary to enable KM. It’s not easy for any organization. Here at the Signal Center, we’ve recently conducted a KM assessment, and we’re now focused on our own internal business processes, applying available technology, and how we can become an organizational example of KM excellence, not just within TRADOC, but for the Army. If we can manage knowledge better internally, we can also share that knowledge more efficiently and collaborate with the regiment around the globe.
Q: Taking the ability to manage knowledge a step further, how do you reach out and collaborate with a Signal Regiment that is worldwide? How do you initiate and encourage a conversation with the operational force about the future of the Signal Regiment?
A: We’re constantly making progress especially in the lessons learned area—my guidance since I took command has been to listen to the regiment, keep the regiment informed, and strive to get it right. But it’s not just the regiment; we’ve got to listen to the Army as well as the Signal Regiment—they are our customers. Inspired by the success of StrykerNet, DA and TRADOC have tasked various echelons and every school/center to establish a proponent warfighter forum. We call ours “The Link” Signal Warfighter Forum, and it’s currently in the beta phase as we analyze feedback from the commanders/G6/ S6s in the field and student users here at the schoolhouse. We’ll be IOC soon, but it’s out there right now and our goal is to provide a “one-stop start point” for definitive, accurate Signal Regiment information. In fact we’ve just posted SOPs from the 35th Signal Brigade and maintenance lessons learned from 4th Infantry Division G6 and other documents to stop people from re-inventing the wheel.
The value of establishing this front page is in the “Did You Know?” headline updates, such as new software releases for communications and battle command systems or when new doctrine is published. Also the “Upcoming Signal Events” across the regiment; the preview of the top 10 discussions ongoing in the discussion forums; and, within the year, the availability of a powerful search capability for BCKS and Warrior Knowledge Base provided by PM AKO. As far as lessons learned, “The Link” portal will be the one-stop single entry point for submitting all signal observations, insights, and lessons learned so we can track, resolve issues where possible, and share with the force.
LandWarNet eUniversity [LWNeU] remains the world-class distance- learning training component of “The Link” portal. Our other embedded communities on the portal include a focused S6 Community of Purpose, a DOIM Forum for collaboration and knowledge sharing for DOIMs that will eventually be run by the newly activated 7th Signal Command. We’ve partnered with Lifecycle Management Command to include their very useful Single Interface to the Field [SIF] site to maintain currency on the latest software releases and to increase use of their 24/7 C4ISR work-order capability. We’re working the NETCOM community based on feedback from the field on what information they require in the Expeditionary Signal Battalion.
We want “The Link” to be the one-stop starting point for definitive, accurate Signal Regiment information, professional discussion, and distance-learning education through LWNeU. It’s at http://signal.army.mil/splashpages/warfighter.html.
Q: How does the Signal Center provide battle command enabling training?
A: Today, with the great help from PEO C3T, we established a unique, world-class digital TOC training network and environment at Fort Gordon, where we now train officers, warrant officers and NCOs on systems integration tasks in a realistic brigade/battalion command post environment. Training is conducted with the latest SICPs shelters, the complete ABCS suites including CPOF, and many of the transport systems found in today’s units. Our partnership with PM Command Posts, PM Battle Command, PM Tactical Operations Centers, PM Mobile Electric Power, PM Force Battle Command Brigade and Below and other PEOs, Army Training and Doctrine Command capability managers, and industry has institutionalized the environment created during Operation TOCFEST 2008 and enhanced it to provide multi-echelon training for signaleers in a unique, standing, tactical-network-enabled command post here at Fort Gordon.
This teaming serves multiple purposes for our contributing partners: It enables an ongoing, validated engineering study of the tactical command post as a total entity [hardware, software and soldiers]; it influences how command posts will be institutionally described and trained; it provides an opportunity to examine TOC environments over an extended period of time; it provides a completely integrated bundle of C4ISR technologies that PMs and the SIGCEN can use to experiment with system-of-systems integration; it provides a baseline from which system engineers can develop training tools for soldiers; and it facilitates signal operational tests and training events. Most significantly, though, it will enable us to conduct fully integrated capstone exercises, where officers, NCOs and soldiers integrate battle command and networking capabilities side by side as they would operate in an actual command post.
Q: What is the Signal Center’s current role in preparing signal soldiers to support cyber operations and what is your vision for your future role?
A: The part of cyber operations that we are focused on is training signaleers to plan, establish, control, protect and defend the LWN, which is the Army’s portion of cyberspace. This training directly supports the Signal Regiment’s core competencies:
• Provide network management/enterprise system management
• Perform information assurance/computer network defense [IA/CND]
• Perform information dissemination management/content staging
• Conduct electromagnetic spectrum operations
• Conduct visual information operations.
Each year we train and educate more than 4,500 resident students and thousands of soldiers on network operations, IA, and CND. This training prepares personnel for Army, joint, and interagency assignments. We’re talking about our signal, warrant, and functional area officers; our enlisted soldiers in various specialties; Army civilian [DOIM] training; and joint personnel.
Part of our cyberspace training strategy is to increase IA/CND training with state-of-the-art countermeasures, secure design principles, and active network defense. We’re expanding partnerships with industry, academia and other DoD organizations, and we’re about to establish a senior information protect warrant officer. We talked earlier about our Digital Command Post ABCS-focused LWN training network, but our other training initiatives include tailored training for our NG/USAR, 25B10 MOS-T soldiers and enhanced COMSEC management training. We are also responding to operational force cyberspace mission requirements by adding IA cells in echelons BCT and higher.
Q: Anything else you would like to add?
A: All the technology in the world is useless without dedicated men and women who make it work. I am so very proud of our people— soldiers, civilians and those supporting contractors—who are making a difference throughout the world. I want to ensure they all know how grateful we are of each and every one of them for their great work on such an important mission. We are equally grateful to the families who continue to endure the sacrifices of time away from loved ones to serve a higher calling—our nation. I am proud to be on their team. May God bless them all. ♦
