{"id":76133,"date":"2017-11-23T11:10:40","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76133"},"modified":"2017-11-23T11:10:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T16:10:40","slug":"army-needs-a-new-communication-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76133","title":{"rendered":"Army needs a new communication system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/army-ditches-6-billion-comms-system-vulnerable-to-russia-china-2017-11?utm_content=buffera25ab&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=facebook.com&#038;utm_campaign=buffer-politics\">Business Insider<\/a> which reports that Army had to dump their Warfighter Integrated Network \u2013 Tactical (WIN-T) battlefield communications system because it found to be vulnerable to attacks by Russian and Chinese hackers. So they&#8217;re stuck with the 6 billion dollar system while they go shopping for another one;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> When it was deployed to Afghanistan for the first time in 2013, the system proved that it could push information around the way commanders envisioned. But that was against an enemy with no ability to listen in, or jam communications.<\/p>\n<p>As defense planners look toward more demanding battlefield scenarios in Europe, the flaws of WIN-T are becoming apparent. The system has little protection against electronic countermeasures, and it is bulky and takes two days to set up, requiring large command tents bristling with servers and antennae. Defense officials fear those command posts will act as a beacon, attracting attacks from sophisticated enemies.<\/p>\n<p>And for any war in Europe, the Army is prioritizing speed and maneuverability, which would be hard to maintain with the current system. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, it will be like Windows, with updates and patches issued every few days to plug vulnerabilities until the next gap is found. Nice. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us a link from Business Insider which reports that Army had to dump their &hellip; <a title=\"Army needs a new communication system\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76133\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Army needs a new communication system<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-army-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}