BSE, Military Strategy
The Pentagon needs better weapons for waging warfare below the level of conventional military conflict — such as information and intelligence warfare capabilities — to win against strategic competitors, according to a report by the Defense Science Board. “Gray Zone” warfare capabilities include better cyberweapons, information warfare capabilities, economic and commercial warfare tools and new multidomain military systems, the Pentagon advisory panel stated in an executive summary. “The study findings emphasized creative ways and means beyond traditional weapons systems to achieve National Defense Strategy objectives,” Craig Fields and Eric Evans, board co-chairs, said in a preface.
“Gray Zone” warfare capabilities include better cyberweapons, information warfare capabilities, economic and commercial warfare tools and new multidomain military systems, the Pentagon advisory panel stated in an executive summary.
For The Black Sky Event documentary we interviewed some of the military’s top experts on Grey Zone Warfare. We examine the Russian attack on the Ukraine, and explore the effects it had on their electric grid.
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Source: Defense Science Board: Pentagon needs ‘Gray Zone’ weapons
Cyber
“In what is the attack landscape’s next evolution, hackers are taking advantage of machine learning themselves to deploy malicious algorithms that can adapt, learn, and continuously improve in order to evade detection, signalling the next paradigm shift in the cyber security landscape: AI-powered attacks.”
In The Black Sky Event documentary, we explore the threat posed to our vital infrastructure by cyber attacks. The Chinese and the Russians have already mapped our power grid, will AI give them the ability to execute an attack that could take the national grid down?
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Source: War of the AI algorithms: the next evolution of cyber attacks
Cyber
One of the biggest threats to 21 st century international peace is invisible. It recognizes no borders and knows no rules. It can penetrate everything from the secrets of your government to the settings of your appliances. This is, of course, the threat of cyberattacks and cyberwarfare.
“During the coronavirus pandemic, cyberattacks have surged, according to watchdogs. This isn’t just Zoom-bombing or scams. It’s also a wave of schemes, likely by national intelligence agencies, meant to steal information about the development and production of vaccines. Attacks on the World Health Organization soared five-fold early in the pandemic.”
“But it’s not hard to imagine a cyberattack on a hospital network, a power grid, or a dam that kills thousands of people and forces even more from their homes. How can those responsible be called to account? And what would it take to make future such attacks much less likely?”
“Will it take an event that inflicts that much human damage for governments and tech companies to sit down and hammer out cyber-rules of the road?”
National security experts that we interviewed for The Black Sky Event warn of the danger from a cyber attack on our critical infrastructure. In most cases it is unattributable and we lack the proper rules of engagement to respond.
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Source: The invisible threat to global peace
Space Weather, Uncategorized
An X-class solar flare (X9.3) emitted on September 6, 2017, and captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory in extreme ultraviolet light. (Image courtesy of NASA/GSFC/SDO) Solar flares are violent explosions on the sun that fling out high-energy charged particles, sometimes toward Earth, where they disrupt communications and endanger satellites and astronauts.
“If sunquakes can be generated spontaneously in the sun, this might lead us to a forecasting tool, if the transient can come from magnetic flux that has yet to break the sun’s surface, we could then anticipate the inevitable subsequent emergence of that magnetic flux. We may even forecast some details about how large an active region is about to appear and what type — even, possibly, what kinds of flares — it might produce. This is a long shot, but well worth looking into.”
Any breakthrough technology that might provide early warning of a CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) would be a welcome addition for the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.
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Source: UC Berkeley Can ripples on the sun help predict solar flares?
Space Weather
In 2012 a solar storm that would have taken our power grid down barely missed Earth.
“Just because it’s a below-average solar cycle, doesn’t mean there is no risk of extreme space weather,” said Doug Biesecker, panel co-chair and solar physicist at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center, in a statement. “The Sun’s impact on our daily lives is real and is there. (We are) staffed 24/7, 365 days a year because the Sun is always capable of giving us something to forecast.”
In The Black Sky Event we go into the control room at the NOAA Space Weather center and interview one of the foremost experts in the field, Bill Murtaugh.
Source: The sun has started a new solar cycle, experts say — CNN
EMP
After the December 2018 NIAC report “Surviving a Catastrophic Power Outage”, FEMA has finally realized that a widespread catastrophic power outage is a possibility and the have no plan for it. FMA announced that they will hold a national EMP exercise in 2021. This is perhaps the most positive development stemming from the President’s March 2019 Executive Order.
A new status report on the Department of Homeland Security’s preparations to confront the threat of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack and respond to a potentially catastrophic event says DHS is “working to evaluate the need for a program management office to provide steady consistent leadership in both the public and private sector engagements” on risk reduction.
Source: DHS Prep for EMP Includes Upcoming FEMA Exercise, Possible Program Office
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