The Smartest Conversation on Cyber in the Defense Department You've Heard in a Long Time

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🗓️ 7 August 2024

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Ryan was joined by Melissa Griffith (SAIS-Johns Hopkins), Anne Marie Schumann (Department of the Navy), Alexis Bonnell (Air Force Research Laboratory), and Tyler Sweatt (Second Front) for a free-wheeling, candid, and thoughtful conversation on the challenges of cyber security in the Defense Department. You won't want to miss this. Please keep in mind that the views expressed by Schumann and Bonnell are their own and do not represent those of their organizations, the Department of the Navy, the Department of the Air Force, the Department of Defense, or any part of the U.S. government.

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0:00.0	You are listening to the War on the Rocks podcast on strategy, defense and foreign affairs.
0:14.4	My name is Ryan Evans, I'm the founder of War on the Rocks.
0:18.0	In this episode, I sat down with four amazing professionals to talk about cyber security in the
0:22.3	Defense Department. In order of introduction as you're about to hear, Dr.
0:26.5	Melissa Griffith, who's a lecture in technology and national security at Johns Hopkins
0:30.8	University School of Advanced International Studies,
0:34.4	with the Alperovich Institute for Cybersecurity Studies.
0:38.0	Anne Marie Schuman, the Department of the Navy's Principal Cyber Advisor, and in that capacity
0:41.9	she advises the Secretary of the Navy, the Chief of Naval Operations
0:45.1	as well as the Commandant of the Marine Corps and all Cyber Matters.
0:48.7	Alexis Bono, the Chief Information Officer and Director of the Digital Capabilities Directorate of the Air Force Research
0:54.0	Laboratory, which is the primary scientific research and development center for the Department of the Air
0:58.5	Force.
0:59.5	And last but certainly not least, Tyler Sweat, the chief executive officer at Second Front Systems.
1:05.0	I hope you enjoyed the show as much as we enjoyed recording it.
1:07.5	We did have a lot of fun.
1:10.0	How did you get to where you are?
1:12.0	How did you end up becoming a scholar that studies all these cutting-edge
1:15.0	technologies and how they intersect with war?
1:17.8	So that for me was a journey through my PhD process so I had joined the cohort at
1:22.3	UC Berkeley as a political scientist.
1:24.4	I was working on national defense, alliances, projection of power, warfare, and found myself
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