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 FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. -- While October is National Cyber
Security Awareness Month, a period for everyone to focus even more
than usual on cybersecurity, it is also time to provide an update on
the Navy's contribution to the U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) Cyber
Mission Force (CMF).
The CMF is designed to accomplish three
primary missions: the National Mission Force will, when directed,
conduct operations to counter significant cyber threats to the
nation; Combat Mission Force will support combatant commander
priorities and missions; and Cyber Protection Force to defend
Department of Defense information networks and improve network
security.
The Navy continues to make strides in building its
part of the CMF for USCYBERCOM by manning, training, and certifying
its teams to USCYBERCOM standards.
As background, Navy is
responsible for sourcing a total of 40 teams at this time, from a
projected total of 133 across the Services. The Navy teams are
aligned as follows: seven National Teams, 13 Combat Teams, and 20
Cyber Protection Teams.
The Navy teams are organized into
existing U.S. Fleet Cyber Command subordinate commands at
cryptologic centers; fleet concentration areas; and Fort Meade,
Maryland, depending upon their specific mission.
USCYBERCOM
also designated Fleet Cyber Command as the Joint Force
Headquarters-Cyber (FCC JFHQ-C) to support U.S. Pacific Command and
U.S. Southern Command in the development, oversight, planning and
command and control of full spectrum cyberspace operations that are
executed through attached Combat Mission and Support Teams.
This past August, as part the growth process, the Navy made a leap
forward for the Sailors who are and will be part of the CMF teams.
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command's senior enlisted leader for the FCC
JFHQ-C received the Command Master Chief (CMC) badge during a
ceremony at the Frank B. Rowlett Building Aug. 1, signifying an
increase in vested authority and responsibility for the Navy CMF
teams' top enlisted position.
Master Chief Cryptologic
Technician (Networks) Joel E. L. Brown, JFHQ-C senior enlisted
leader, was pinned with the CMC badge by Vice Adm. Jan E. Tighe,
commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet (FCC/C10F) and
FCC/C10F Command Master Chief Jon Taylor.
“This is so
critically important moving forward as we build our teams -
specifically, our CMTs [combat mission teams] that the JFHQ-C will
be directly responsible for - forging the future of what it means to
deliver warfighting effects,” said Tighe.
CMTs for which FCC
JFHQ-C has C2 will include Air Force and Army members. Similarly,
Sailors will be members of CMTs led by the other services and
dedicated to their respective focus areas.
“I am very humbled
and honored to accept this and I will use it on behalf of the
Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen who will depend on me to be focused on
issues affecting their operational readiness and to communicate
those issues to senior leadership,” Brown said.
Navy will
provide approximately 30 percent of the overall CMF.
The work
to stand up the FCC JFHQ-C has been fast paced, but deliberate and
intense.
In November 2013, the Cyber Flag 14-1 exercise
marked the first time U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and the other
components of the CMF construct executed mission as a cohesive
force, which included exercising C2 through all the services'
incipient JFHQ-C elements.
The exercise integrated cyber
professionals from across the Defense Department to test their
knowledge and skills against a realistic adversary on a closed
network.
In May 2014, the FCC JFHQ-C element completed Cyber
Knight 14-1, which is an exercise that certifies teams and JFHQs are
operating at a joint standard. The certification team included
experts in command and control and cyber operations from across the
Navy and Department of Defense.
In its role as Service Cyber
Component to USCYBERCOM, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command maintains command
and control (C2) of the FCC JFHQ-C.
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command
serves as the Navy component command to U.S. Strategic Command and
U.S. Cyber Command, and the Navy's Service Cryptologic Component
commander under the National Security Agency/Central Security
Service.
U.S. Fleet Cyber Command also reports directly to
the Chief of Naval Operations as an Echelon II command.
Tenth
Fleet (C10F) is the operational arm of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and
executes its mission through a task force structure similar to other
warfare commanders.
In this role, C10F provides operational
direction through its Maritime Operations Center located at Fort
George Meade Md., executing command and control over assigned forces
in support of Navy or joint missions in cyber/networks, information
operations, electronic warfare, cryptologic/signals intelligence and
space.
By U.S. Navy Lt.Cmdr. Joseph Holstead
Provided
through DVIDS
Copyright 2014
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