{"id":262432,"date":"2026-06-02T13:14:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T17:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/dod-wants-to-integrate-cyber-in-all-operations-and-integrate-security-into-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T22:05:16","slug":"dod-wants-to-integrate-cyber-in-all-operations-and-integrate-security-into-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/02\/dod-wants-to-integrate-cyber-in-all-operations-and-integrate-security-into-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"DOD wants to integrate cyber in all operations, and integrate security into AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/pentagon-cyber-integration-ai-security\/\">DOD wants to integrate cyber in all operations, and integrate security into AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/pentagon-cyber-integration-ai-security\/\">https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/pentagon-cyber-integration-ai-security\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-02 13:14:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"cyberscoop.com\">cyberscoop.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Pentagon is focusing on integrating cyber into all its operations, and wants to make sure it integrates security into artificial intelligence usage from the outset, the Defense Department\u2019s top cyber policy official said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Recent conflicts have made clear how important cyber is, said Katherine Sutton, assistant secretary for cyber policy and principal cyber adviser at DOD \u2014 especially when it\u2019s paired with physical force.<\/p>\n<p>Defense officials have noted that there\u2019s been a cultural shift on the importance of cyber at the department since the war in Iran and the capture of Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInformation is becoming more and more important on the battlefield, so having the ability to integrate space, cyber and other non-kinetic effects to be able to degrade that information advantage is something that\u2019s going to be critical and foundational to any future conflicts going forward,\u201d she said at the GDIT\u2019s Emerge: Battlespace of the Future conference, hosted by Scoop News Group. \u201cWe have to fully pull cyber out of its silo, which means not just integrating the effects, but starting the integration from day one with operational planning \u2026 and built in from the beginning, and not something that we strap on as we\u2019re going to execute.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brandon Pugh, principal cyber adviser for the Army, backed up that message at the same conference, saying that cyber \u201cbeing considered in a silo is not where it\u2019s most effective,\u201d and is more effective \u201cwhen we see cyber blending in the kinetic operations while still being an option in its own right.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has given Pugh oversight of all defense critical infrastructure, both physical and cyber, which Pugh said emphasizes how the department sees the two linked. The Army brought agencies together last month for an exercise to contemplate threat scenarios across domains.<\/p>\n<p>By the same token, security needs to be interlaced with&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/pentagon-cyber-integration-ai-security\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOD wants to integrate cyber in all operations, and integrate security into AI https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/pentagon-cyber-integration-ai-security\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2026\/06\/260602-095858-IL.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,20],"class_list":["post-262432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262434,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262432\/revisions\/262434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}