Members of both Army and Air National Guard participate in training during exercise Cyber Shield 2025 in Virginia Beach, Virginia, June 5, 2025. The mission of Cyber Shield is to develop, train, and exercise cyber forces in the areas of computer network internal defense measures and cyber incident response. Participants engage in rigorous training courses, including CASP, Pen Test +, CySA, SANS Operational Technology course and more. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jasmine McCarthy)
BALTIMORE — The forthcoming Department of Defense cyber strategy will set a course outlining the role artificial intelligence will play for the cyber force going forward, according to a senior official.
“As we’re working on our new Department of War cyber strategy that’s in development right now, we are going to set a very clear and specific vision for how we need to enable AI for this force,” Katie Sutton, assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy and principal cyber advisor, said here at the TechNet Cyber conference today. “We will also set out a very clear vision for this new operational partnership that we’re going to need to have with industry.”
Sutton announced in congressional testimony in April that the department is working on an updated cyber strategy, the first since 2023. The White House released its cyber strategy for America in March.
