The Compass

An array of perspectives and messages from thought leaders in the business of defense IT and C4ISR and networks.


  • Cyber questions – a first strike capability?
    Cyber questions – a first strike capability?

    With the increased discussion about the growing threat from cyber weapons, the question of cyber as a first strike capability has resurfaced.

  • 5 ways to modernize command and control center comms
    5 ways to modernize command and control center comms

    With some personnel using radio channels, some with phones or other devices, command and control center operators across U.S. civilian and defense sites worldwide must safely and effectively manage this complex environment.

  • Top cyber concerns
    Top cyber concerns

    Is the U.S. prepared for the inevitable – a successful cyberattack with severe or deadly consequences?

  • Cyber threat fatigue
    Cyber threat fatigue

    It is becoming increasingly easy to grow tired of all the cybersecurity threats we face day in and day out.

  • Double-counting cyber resources?
    Double-counting cyber resources?

    The U.S. military is making a list of cyber resources, but are planners should be making sure they aren’t counting things twice.

  • Answering the military’s spectrum challenge
    Answering the military’s spectrum challenge

    The broad challenge facing governments and industry is how to meet rapidly growing demands for a finite national resource.

  • NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber
    NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber

    At last weeks’s Warsaw NATO summit, defense ministers designated cyberspace as an operational domain.

  • Accelerating cyber
    Accelerating cyber

    A number of articles talk about the speed in which the cyber domain in changing.  Well if the last couple of weeks are any indicator, someone must have stepped on the accelerator.  I am not just talking about the cyber threat environment.

  • Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities
    Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities

    The Navy and the U.S. military are right in concluding the need for cyberspace superiority. But will that happen?

  • Cyber intelligence – a big issue
    Cyber intelligence – a big issue

    Today many see cyber intelligence as the only possible hope to get ahead and stay ahead of the continuously changing cyber threatscape. Cyber intelligence is relatively new when compared to the practice of intelligence gathering in general.

  • Cyber questions – a first strike capability?
    Cyber questions – a first strike capability?

    With the increased discussion about the growing threat from cyber weapons, the question of cyber as a first strike capability has resurfaced.

  • 5 ways to modernize command and control center comms
    5 ways to modernize command and control center comms

    With some personnel using radio channels, some with phones or other devices, command and control center operators across U.S. civilian and defense sites worldwide must safely and effectively manage this complex environment.

  • Top cyber concerns
    Top cyber concerns

    Is the U.S. prepared for the inevitable – a successful cyberattack with severe or deadly consequences?

  • Cyber threat fatigue
    Cyber threat fatigue

    It is becoming increasingly easy to grow tired of all the cybersecurity threats we face day in and day out.

  • Double-counting cyber resources?
    Double-counting cyber resources?

    The U.S. military is making a list of cyber resources, but are planners should be making sure they aren’t counting things twice.

  • Answering the military’s spectrum challenge
    Answering the military’s spectrum challenge

    The broad challenge facing governments and industry is how to meet rapidly growing demands for a finite national resource.

  • NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber
    NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber

    At last weeks’s Warsaw NATO summit, defense ministers designated cyberspace as an operational domain.

  • Accelerating cyber
    Accelerating cyber

    A number of articles talk about the speed in which the cyber domain in changing.  Well if the last couple of weeks are any indicator, someone must have stepped on the accelerator.  I am not just talking about the cyber threat environment.

  • Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities
    Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities

    The Navy and the U.S. military are right in concluding the need for cyberspace superiority. But will that happen?

  • Cyber intelligence – a big issue
    Cyber intelligence – a big issue

    Today many see cyber intelligence as the only possible hope to get ahead and stay ahead of the continuously changing cyber threatscape. Cyber intelligence is relatively new when compared to the practice of intelligence gathering in general.

  • Cyber questions – a first strike capability?
    Cyber questions – a first strike capability?

    With the increased discussion about the growing threat from cyber weapons, the question of cyber as a first strike capability has resurfaced.

  • 5 ways to modernize command and control center comms
    5 ways to modernize command and control center comms

    With some personnel using radio channels, some with phones or other devices, command and control center operators across U.S. civilian and defense sites worldwide must safely and effectively manage this complex environment.

  • Top cyber concerns
    Top cyber concerns

    Is the U.S. prepared for the inevitable – a successful cyberattack with severe or deadly consequences?

  • Cyber threat fatigue
    Cyber threat fatigue

    It is becoming increasingly easy to grow tired of all the cybersecurity threats we face day in and day out.

  • Double-counting cyber resources?
    Double-counting cyber resources?

    The U.S. military is making a list of cyber resources, but are planners should be making sure they aren’t counting things twice.

  • Answering the military’s spectrum challenge
    Answering the military’s spectrum challenge

    The broad challenge facing governments and industry is how to meet rapidly growing demands for a finite national resource.

  • NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber
    NATO extends Article 5 powers to cyber

    At last weeks’s Warsaw NATO summit, defense ministers designated cyberspace as an operational domain.

  • Accelerating cyber
    Accelerating cyber

    A number of articles talk about the speed in which the cyber domain in changing.  Well if the last couple of weeks are any indicator, someone must have stepped on the accelerator.  I am not just talking about the cyber threat environment.

  • Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities
    Navy cyber mission highlights DoD-wide realities

    The Navy and the U.S. military are right in concluding the need for cyberspace superiority. But will that happen?

  • Cyber intelligence – a big issue
    Cyber intelligence – a big issue

    Today many see cyber intelligence as the only possible hope to get ahead and stay ahead of the continuously changing cyber threatscape. Cyber intelligence is relatively new when compared to the practice of intelligence gathering in general.