The head of U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) said today that the organization has created a new artificial intelligence (AI) task force that will focus on delivering AI capabilities for cyber mission force operations.
Gen. Timothy Haugh said the USCYBERCOM AI Task Force has three primary focus areas: providing AI capabilities for operations, enabling AI adoption, and countering AI threats. AI.
“We have created an AI task force within U.S. Cyber Command to move us from opportunistic application of AI to systemic adoption driven by strategic and tactical objectives that will focus on three outcomes important,” Haugh said during the keynote address at AFCEA International’s TechNet Cyber conference. in Baltimore.
“First, we work closely with the cyberservices components and our AI working group. We are focused on delivering AI capabilities for cyber mission force operations and are taking steps to integrate our AI task force even more closely with operations,” the general said.
He continued: “Second, we ask U.S. Cyber Command to enable widespread adoption of AI by addressing many of the non-hardware issues, like policies and standards, that will be necessary to enable responsible application , ethical, assured and secure of AI. .”
“Finally, our no-fail mission means we are focused on combating AI threats and exploiting emerging opportunities,” he said.
Haugh said USCYBERCOM designation as a federal laboratory earlier this year will “strengthen our ability to drive innovation, collaborate with academic and industry leaders, and contribute meaningfully to advances in the development of cybertechnology.”
Haugh – who is also director of the National Security Agency (NSA) – noted that the creation of the NSA AI Security Center in 2023 aims to protect against AI deployed by adversaries.
The NSA chief noted that last year, researchers at its Cybersecurity Collaboration Center identified 29,000 cyber vulnerabilities.
“At Cyber Command and the NSA, we have two perspectives when we talk about AI: cybersecurity for AI and AI for cybersecurity,” he said. Haugh emphasized during his keynote address that the applications and utility of AI have the potential to advance cybersecurity operations on both ends of the spectrum.
