In an effort to persuade Iraqi military leaders not to use weapons of mass destruction against the United States and other allied forces, the Defense Department sent thousands of e-mail messages to them, promising protection for those who comply.
The U.S. National Communications System is in the early stages of a Global Early Warning Information System (GEWIS) pilot project which will assess how well critical areas of the Internet are performing worldwide and then use that data to notify government, industry or U.S. allies of impending cyberattacks or possible disturbances.
An office established last fall in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has added a key word to the traditional research area of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR): kill.