Electronic warfare and information advantage added to Army principle cyber advisor portfolio

The Army secretary’s top advisor on cyber issues has now also been tasked with providing advice on electronic warfare and information advantage, elevating the focus on those topics at the highest level of the Army.

“From a civilian oversight perspective as it relates to cyber, EW, electronic warfare, and information advantage will now fall to our office,” Brandon Pugh, the Army’s principal cyber advisor, said in an interview. “That’s been a new addition as of two weeks ago.”

The move attempts to align civilian oversight with uniformed roles, Pugh said. Currently, the Department of the Army’s Management Office for Strategic Operations within the Army’s G-3/5/7 is tasked with overseeing cyber, EW and information advantage. Aligning these disciplines under the PCA isn’t meant to be duplicative, but rather, provide it with a civilian counterpart.

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