Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement

Air Force Seeks Full Spectrum Dominance Over "Any And All" Computers


[By Steve Watson, Infowars.net | Wednesday, 14 May, 2008.]
The U.S. airforce has announced plans for a two-year, $11 million project that will seek the capability to hack into, fully control and even destroy any form of computer or network there is, in its ongoing "national cybersecurity initiative". The Air Force Research Laboratory introduced the plans earlier this week in a a request for proposals as a Dominant Cyber Offensive Engagement. The request states:

"Of interest are any and all techniques to enable user and/or root level access to both fixed (PC) or mobile computing platforms. Robust methodologies to enable access to any and all operating systems, patch levels, applications and hardware are of interest.

...this BAA's objective includes the capability to provide a variety of techniques and technologies to be able to affect computer information systems through Deceive, Deny, Disrupt, Degrade, Destroy (D5) effects. Of interest are any and all techniques including enabling D5 effects to computers and their networks...

...research efforts under this program are expected to result in complete functional capabilities.

Also, we are interested in technology to provide the capability to maintain an active presence within the adversaries' information infrastructure completely undetected...

...it is desired to have the capability to stealthily exfiltrate information from any remotely-located open or closed computer information systems with the possibility to discover information with previously unknown existence... Consideration should be given to maintaining a 'low and slow' gathering paradigm in these development efforts to enable stealthy operation."

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