Cyber Yankee 2026 Blue Team participants defend their network against simulated cyberattacks during the exercise at Camp Nett in Niantic, Conn., May 11, 2026. The exercise brings service members and critical infrastructure personnel together in a controlled training environment to strengthen coordination, build relationships and prepare for a unified response to real-world cyber incidents. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Spc. Emmanuel Gibson)
BALTIMORE — The Pentagon’s newest cyber organization, the Defense Cyber Defense Command (DCDC), is working to build out a framework for how to respond to cyberattacks against critical infrastructure in the homeland, according to a military official.
“I’m currently assigned there to build out a [Joint Task Force Defense of Critical Infrastructure] framework and command and control footprint, because the most important thing, besides understanding the technology, the people, the processes, is who’s in control, who’s executing, what’s the common rail amongst all the authorizations that we have between CISA, FBI, Coast Guard, Department of War writ large,” Col. Adolph Rodriguez, director of Defense Critical Infrastructure at the DCDC, said here at the TechNet Cyber conference Wednesday.
