U. S. Fleet Cyber Command / TENTH Fleet …

1 U. S. Fleet Cyber Command / TENTH Fleet strategic Plan 2015 2020. U. S. Fleet Cyber Command / TENTH Fleet strategic Plan 2015 2020. Foreword New warfighting platforms do not spring full-grown from their technical roots. They may appear initially as interesting oddities, such as the first submarines. They may even start as enablers, such as aviation's early reconnaissance balloons. Eventually, though, in the hands of innovative operators they turn a corner to realize their full potential: they become formidable warfighting platforms, which must be vigorously defended, as well as employed to strike adversaries when needed. When a technology becomes a full-fledged warfighting platform, it does not abandon its initial purpose; instead it adopts a larger, more inclusive purpose. The military that grasps this turning point soonest is the one that seizes the advantage.

2 The realm we call cyberspace is undergoing exactly such a transformation, something Navy's senior leadership recognized a while ago. Today our whole force is coming to understand these two truths: our mastery of cyberspace puts a hefty weapon in our hands; and our reliance on cyberspace places a weighty vulnerability in our path. Recent world events have underscored this two-edged quality of cyberspace. Our adversaries are flexing their muscles and have proven the vulnerability of our assets governmental, commercial, academic, and military posing serious risks to our nation's security and missions that we as a navy are executing around the globe every day. Because of these facts, this strategic plan emphasizes the warfighting aspects of this Command both offensive and defensive . while still recognizing the significant ways in which other warfighters rely on our effectiveness in the confluence of cyberspace, the electromagnetic spectrum, and space.

3 Our successes in this domain will require smart, dedicated leaders and a workforce no less smart and dedicated. Fortunately, we have both. Still, in the face of increasing competition for talent and increasing technical requirements, diligence and innovation will be required to maintain this edge. Likewise, success will require close, purposeful collaboration across multiple partners in the military, government, academia, industry, and other countries. This is something we are already doing and we are looking forward to more of it. Our work is clearly cut out for us but there was never a better cause, nor better reason for optimism. This young Command already has a history of grit, smarts, and ability. On this five-year anniversary of our Command , we commit to this plan, and to our Navy's and Nation's success.

4 JAN E. TIGHE. Vice Admiral, Navy Commander, Fleet Cyber Command Commander, TENTH Fleet 2 U. S. Fleet Cyber Command / TENTH Fleet strategic Plan 2015-2020. Contents Executive Summary strategic Plan Summary 3. Planning Context 4 The release of this strategic plan marks This plan plots our Command 's the five-year anniversary of Navy course to deliver on our responsibilities strategic Environment .. 4. Fleet Cyber Command / TENTH Fleet . by leveraging our strengths and The Organizational Environment .. 5 shrinking Navy's vulnerabilities. Toward The deliberate design and standup of Planning Assumptions .. 5 this Command came at a good time in that end, we lay out five pivotal, strategic Operational Environment .. 5 history. That standup reflected Navy's goals that we will achieve in the next five Information Environment.

5 6 prescient appreciation for a necessary years. For each of those five-year goals, confluence of critical mission sets. we also cite specific, verifiable outcomes FCC / C10F Operations .. 6. Together, those mission sets better that must be achieved in the next 18. Resources and Workforce .. 7 enable us to deliver warfighting effects months to ensure that we are on course. strategic Alignment .. 7 in and through cyberspace, provide Other warfighting commanders tailored signals intelligence, and assure have long depended upon our Our Vision and Mission 8 critical Navy networks, communications, successful mission accomplishment. We Command and control and space understand those critical dependencies Our Vision .. 8. operations. and will never lose sight of them. But in Our Mission Areas .. 8 We constructed this plan in the these five goals, we are shifting weight Guiding Principles.

6 8 context of a world where we Americans to our forward foot from our role as an can no longer rely on the oceans to enabler to our role as warriors within an Our Way Ahead 9 insulate us from our enemies. In this operational force. Introduction .. 9 new environment, adversaries can To ensure that our intent becomes harm us in nanoseconds, often with reality, we will develop a detailed strategic Goal 1: Operate the Network scant exposure of attribution, much execution plan. It will translate our as a Warfighting Platform .. 10. less retribution. Recent events have goals and strategies into measurable strategic Goal 2: Conduct Tailored proven the peril to our economy, our lower-tier goals. Accountability for Signals Intelligence .. 14 defense, and even our way of life. accomplishing each lower-tier goal will strategic Goal 3: Deliver Warfighting Theft, disruption, and destruction are all reside with a role on the leadership Effects Through Cyberspace.

7 16 happening now, and getting worse. team. Bi-monthly progress reviews, strategic Goal 4: Create Shared Cyber America's long-enjoyed military between Commander and goal owners, Situational Awareness .. 18 superiority does not extend will set the execution drumbeat. automatically to cyberspace; we will Success will require the focused efforts strategic Goal 5: Establish and Mature have to earn it. Simultaneously, we of this Command , but it will also require Navy's Cyber Mission Forces .. 20. are being challenged in our traditional active, productive engagement with key strongholds of electromagnetic spectrum partners, who are cited in the plan. Execution Management 22 and space. Paradoxically, both our Develop an Execution Plan .. 22 prosperity and strength now depend Conduct Regular Progress Reviews.

8 22 largely on these three overlapping Foster Productive Partnerships .. 22 domains, so they are both an advantage and a vulnerability. Glossary 25. Fleet Cyber Command / TENTH Fleet U. S. Fleet Cyber Command / TENTH Fleet strategic Plan 2015-2020 3. strategic Plan: One-Page Overview strategic Goals Our Vision Goal 1: Operate the Network as a Supporting strategic Initiatives: We will conduct operations in Warfighting Platform L. ead Navy's understanding and use and through cyberspace, the Defend Navy networks, communication, of Cyber effects electromagnetic spectrum, and space and space systems, ensure availability I nstitutionalize Cyber delivery to ensure Navy and Joint freedom of and, when necessary, fight through them capability action and decision superiority while to achieve operational objectives.

9 Denying the same to our adversaries. We will win in these domains Goal 4: Create Shared Cyber through our collective commitment to Supporting strategic Initiatives: Situational Awareness excellence and by strengthening our Assure Command and Control Create a sharable Cyber Common alliances with entities across the Reduce our Intrusion Attack Surface Operating Picture that evolves to full, government, Department of Defense, immediate awareness of our network academia, industry, and our foreign Enhance our Defense in Depth and everything that happens on it. partners. operations Decrease cycle time by increasing organizational clarity Supporting strategic Initiatives: Our Mission Areas Influence the agility and speed of E. stablish a global defensive Cyber We operate and defend the cyberspace PPBE and acquisition operations enclave Navy's networks and shore-to-ship process D.

10 Efine a unified data strategy communications systems. and create analytics to feed Cyber situational awareness We create relevant and actionable Goal 2: Conduct Tailored Signals intelligence and surveillance data. Intelligence D. rive requirements for visualization tools to enable shared Cyber We plan for and operate assigned Meet the evolving SIGINT needs of situational awareness Navy spacecraft, which provide Navy commanders through more telecommunications support to tailored operations, while continuing to globally deployed operational forces. deliver on NSA needs. Goal 5: Establish and Mature Navy's Cyber Mission Forces We oversee Information Operations and coordinate Navy Electronic Supporting strategic Initiatives: Stand up 40 highly expert Cyber Mission Teams and plan for the sustainability of Warfare for automated and Institutionalize purposeful these teams over time.