instantly has fundamentally changed the way we live and operate in the world. Just think of the ease with which a person can now communicate with family, friends, colleagues or customers from anywhere in the world through any number of digi- tal media. Consider the significance of IT to fields like science and medicine, space exploration, commerce and education, to name just a few.
Te internet has connected the world in ways our grandparents could never have comprehended, and while all of the inter- connectedness is making life better in so many ways, our ever-increasing depen- dence on the IT that can improve our experience can also expose us to unique vulnerabilities and formidable threats. Indeed, our very way of living in the 21st century—the strength of our economy and our national security—now depends largely on a stable and secure cyberspace. DOD is prioritizing its focus on this issue not only for our own joint force, but also for our allies.
DOD’s mission is to make combat-ready the military forces needed to deter or prosecute war to protect and defend the security interests of America and its allies around the world against a continuum of state, nonstate and transnational bad actors. A key component of this mission is theater security cooperation, which begins with the conviction that building stronger defense partnerships and interoperability with our partners lightens our own secu- rity burden and enables them to play a larger role in the shared responsibility of maintaining what the 2018 National Defense Strategy calls the “free and open international order.”
Given the emphasis our joint force places on C4ISR and defensive cyber capabilities, it behooves DOD to continue investing in like capabilities for our allies. In doing
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Personnel from AIT, General Dynamics Information Technology and Ukrai- nian armed forces gather for a photo in December 2017 during construction of a new Ukrainian special operations forces IT training center.
so, we improve the durability of their IT infrastructures, help to improve the accu- racy and reach of their warfighting systems, increase interoperability with our own systems and, perhaps most importantly, fortify their networks against antagonis- tic cyberthreats.
AIT has seen a sharp increase in appe- tite for these capabilities over the past several years, particularly in East- ern Europe, where Russia continues to provoke U.S. allies with cyberattacks and other overt acts of hostility. In Ukraine, for instance, AIT currently has under- way several major IT modernization efforts for the Ukrainian armed forces, including a revamped network infrastruc- ture, new training centers for Ukrainian special operations forces, a state-of-the- art joint operations center with effective command-and-control tools, NATO- interoperable logistics and medical defense business systems, and a first-of-its-kind
cybersecurity operations center. All of these enhancements are a tremendous boon to the Ukrainian armed forces, enabling their leaders to make faster, more accurate decisions while defending against ubiquitous cyberthreats.
In fact, the Ukrainian armed forces are already seeing the operational impact of these capabilities in the ongoing conflict with Russian-backed separatists in east- ern Ukraine. What’s more, the Ukrainian chief of general staff (equivalent to our chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), recently wrote to the commander of U.S. European Command and NATO supreme allied commander, Europe, praising AIT for its efforts in Ukraine and requesting that AIT personnel continue to advise him and his senior staff on the invest- ments needed to ensure that Ukraine can continue to optimize, maximize and sustain these capabilities over time.
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