JASDF team learns how USAF defends the E-3 AWACS from cyber threats

A team of officers from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force visited the 552d Air Control Networks Squadron at Tinker Air Force Base to learn how the unit carried out its cyber defense role.

Senior Airman Gabriel Coleman, 552d Air Control Networks Squadron, and Master Sgt. Christopher Bailey, U.S. Pacific Air Forces Cyber Defense and Mission Assurance, explain the capabilities of a deployable cyber defense weapon system, Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter, to Lt. Col. Akio Ohigashi and Capt. Shumpei Kawano from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. The system is used by the 552 ACNS Mission Defense Team to defend the 552nd Air Control Wing’s Control and Reporting Centers and E-3 Sentry fleet and ground systems from cyber threats. (U.S. Air Force photo by Kimberly Woodruff)

The role of the 552d is to help the E-3 Airborne warning and control system (AWACS) defend itself against cyber threats. It is the only Mission Defense Team (MDT) in the U.S. Air Force to perform this role inside an aircraft.

The visitors, including members from the Pacific Air Force, were briefed on the capabilities of a deployable cyber defense weapon system, Cyberspace Vulnerability Assessment/Hunter.

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