The Harlow Report-GIS
2023 Edition
ISSN 0742-468X
Since 1978
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first published week of: 03/13/2023
How The Navy Trains Its Info Warfare Officers Needs Work
by Lauren C. Williams
The goal is to expand the training into virtual and synthetic environments in the next few years.
Training the Navy’s information warfare operators isn’t easy, and technical and security challenges prevent operators from virtually learning the systems they’d use in a fight, officials said.
“We are not at our best in the training we're providing for our information warriors,” said Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, the commander of Naval Information Forces, during a presentation at the WEST 2023 conference.
“We have a lot of good stuff in place, but we do not move fast enough, nearly fast enough, to pace all the capability we're delivering. Our brick and mortar construct has a lot of trouble keeping up with the agility with which industry and others now are delivering fantastic capabilities.”
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