The Cyber domain contains to achieve greater importance in not only the national security domain but in all facets of society including the financial, health, and infrastructure sectors.  As a result, there is a glut of options and capabilities coming to the forefront to manage and mitigate an ever increasing onslaught of attacks and threat vectors.  This has led for a call to build integrated an integrated framework that effectively leverage the expanse of cyber tools as well as future capabilities – enter the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA).

The U.S. Cyber Command’s JCWA is a concept to bring together existing cyber systems under development in the various military services into an integrated system of systems or unified platform.  Cyber forces can then go into one platform to perform a wide range of tasks from training to accessing command and control decision systems.  The JCWA is broken into five elements, which include common firing platforms for a comprehensive suite of cyber tools, a unified platform that will integrate and analyze data from offensive and defensive operations, joint command-and control mechanisms for situational awareness, sensors that support defense of the network and drive operational decisions, and a persistent cyber training environment.

This panel will bring together JCWA principals and explore how this concept is envisioned and moving forward.