But we'll have to see how that plays out in budgets and programs. One attraction of the new C4ISR discipline is that it is so new and innovative that at least temporarily it may be able to shrug off some of the more onerous Pentagon acquisition rules. There's no shelf for high energy lasers, missile defense or offensive computer warfare. It's changing as it's being thought about in the Pentagon. But, with Space Command taking over defensive and offensive information warfare, it should give you some idea where the Pentagon's planning is going on the subject.
Nothing is that tightly compartmented.
Everybody is using civilian commercial mechanisms through some portion of their data transport. The problem was compared to a leaky dike. It's an opportunity for us if we want to be intrusive. The informal survey conducted by a former Army intelligence officer and bomb damage assessment specialist working for Human Rights Watch, William Arkin, appears to confirm that the U.S. computer assault was done through space-based satellite systems or from aircraft. In August, Arkin was allowed by Yugoslav officials to conduct a 20-day survey of the damage done by NATO air forces during which he discovered that only three of about 30 telephone system nodes were bombed and none of the three network control stations that supported the cellphone system.