Warrior Maven & Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett

Navy Cyber Division Director

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BARRETT —-

Barrett’s operational assignments include tours at U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. 5th Fleet; commander, 2nd Fleet, Carrier Strike Group 2, Multi-National Forces Iraq, Carrier Strike Group 12, which included deployments in support of Operations Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Unified Response in Haiti; Standing Joint Force Headquarters United States Pacific Command; and deputy director of current operations at U.S. Cyber Command (Barrett Navy BIO)*********

Rear Adm. Danelle Barrett – Q&AWarrior Maven:

Much attention is now being focused upon Artificial Intelligence. What are some of the fast-emerging ways this is changing cyber operations?

Rear Adm. Barrett: We see that the more we can automate our networks, the more we can use machines to do the heavy lifting. Our brains do not have the capacity from a time or intellectual capacity to process all of that information. It is imperative to how we will be able to maneuver and defend networks in the future. We can have more automated defenses so that, when things happen, responses can be machine-driven. It won’t necessarily require a human.

Warrior Maven: How can AI help identify and prevent intrusions and cyberattacks?

Rear Adm. Barrett: We are very interested in artificial intelligence being able to help us better than we do today in many areas even beyond cybersecurity. Industry is using it well and we want to leverage those same capabilities for warfighting advantages. We want to use it not only for defensive sensing of our networks but also for suggesting countermeasures. We want to have confidence in machine intelligence and representation of data, to trust machines to help with our defenses but to also look at AI in terms of how we use it against adversaries. AI has all sorts of benefits with regard to the amount of data this is coming in on our networks. This requires us to look at TTPs as our networks become more agile. Human machine interface is also a key element of this. We can also use AI to help coordinate operation and cybersecurity of our unmanned and autonomous vehicle platforms.