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(Photo by Lawrence Torres III, U.S. Army)

Master Sgt. Charlie Sanders (left) and Capt. Lashon Bush, 2nd Signal Brigade, work on a mission event synchronization list in the Joint
Cyber Control Center during Operation Deuce Lightning at Grafenwoehr, Germany on 23 February 2011. A team of more than sixty U.S.
and German soldiers and airmen took part in the exercise to assess the 2nd Signal Brigade’s ability to provide network support.

The Relevance
of Culture

Recognizing the Importance of
Innovation in Cyberspace Operations
Lt. Gen. Edward C. Cardon, U.S. Army
Col. David P. McHenry, U.S. Army
Lt. Col. Christopher Cline, U.S. Army

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t the October 2015 Association of the United
States Army annual meeting and exposition in Washington, D.C., Army Captains
Brent Chapman, Matt Hutchinson, and Erick Waage
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demonstrated a “cyber rifle” tool they developed in ten
hours using $150 in spare parts. This tool remotely
disabled an unmanned aerial vehicle.1 Shortly after the
demonstration, the captains, all assigned to the Army
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