JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD — In a Friday visit to this Western Washington military base, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter inspected an Army Stryker vehicle, visited with members of an Air Force squadron that calls in aviation support for ground troops and strode inside a cavernous C-17 that can evacuate the wounded or precision-drop cargo.
But in remarks to reporters, he spotlighted the accomplishments of a small Washington Air Guard unit — the 252d Cyber Operations Group — that works to improve the nation’s defenses against computer hacking.
Most of these several hundred citizen soldiers have day jobs in the tech industry.
When they report for duty at a modest headquarters building on base, they tackle assignments ranging from nuclear security to a two-week test effort last spring to try to penetrate the computer system of the Snohomish County Public Utility District. For the full article click here
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