Washington State Military Units Prepare for Cyber War – Police State Censorship

KomoNews.com
December 11, 2011

JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. (AP) – In the next war, one of the battlescapes is likely to include a brick building shaded by fir trees, not far from Interstate 5, north of Olympia.

The two-story building, with office space downstairs and shared computer work spaces upstairs, is home to the Washington National Guard’s 262nd Network Warfare Squadron, a unit assigned to provide cyberdefense and unspecified forms of cyberoffense to guard critical U.S. infrastructure, starting with military computer networks.

While its roughly 100 members are fully qualified Air National Guard troops, they control keyboards and wield digital network expertise — not fighter jets, nor aerial drones.

Many of them are drawn from the rich information technology culture of the Seattle area, home to Microsoft Corp., Amazon Inc. and a profusion of software and networking companies. In many ways, their jobs in uniform aren’t very different from their civilian jobs.

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