Thread by @Maxwsmeets

Main insights we wrote down from FY2021 and FY2022:

https://twitter.com/Maxwsmeets/status/1453646273999953920

FY2021:"The DoD has also increased investments in [..] cyber operations to boost resiliency against adversaries, as evidenced by standing up the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center to adapt to the pending growth of machine learning, and to capitalize on big data.."

FY2021: "Another key action for FY 2021 is to develop an organizational construct to support joint training enablers by Q4 FY 2021."

FY2021: "FY 2021 end strength growth targets Cyber Operations and Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities in FY 2021."

FY2021:Army eliminates 41 lower priority programs to improve performance, affordability, and resource higher priorities that support the NDS.... -->

--> Eliminations result in reductions to legacy munitions, fires, protection, sustainment, mobility, mission command and cyber programs that are not aligned with the NDS. (FY 2021, $299 million)

FY2021: "the Navy maintains 40 cyber mission teams across the globe conducting cyber operations in support of Naval forces."

FY2022: Driving cryptology modernization and deployment for the next generation of mission systems and platforms (FY 2022, $980.9 million)

FY2022: Imbedding “Zero Trust” (ZT) Architectures and supporting ZT capabilities by deploying Comply-to-Connect (C2C) as an enabling principle of ZT (FY 2022, $615.0 million)

FY2022:DoD is providing additional funding and civilian manpower, and adjusts military manpower, to support the growth of the Cyber Mission Forces by 4 teams. Additional teams address the increased Cyber Operations requirements and the Cyber support to Space Operations.

FY2022:total Air Force end strength declines in FY 2022 due to the transfer of personnel to the Space Force. Beyond the transfer, Air Force personnel are funded to grow slightly in FY 2022 to meet global requirements.

FY2022: The Space Force built and delivered the Unified Data Library (UDL), a cloud-based, cyber accredited, multi-classification data store that facilitates universal data access and serves as the foundational element of the ABMS data architecture in partnership with the USAF.