AI and Advanced Cyber Defense
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Lt. Gen. Leah G. Lauderback:
All right. Good morning everyone. Good morning, Mr. Secretary. Thanks for being here this morning.
Good morning. I am Lieutenant General Leah Lauderbach. I am a Deputy Chief of Staff for the Chief of
Staff of the Air Force at the half staff at the Pentagon. I am otherwise known as the A-to-six. I've got the
ISR portfolio, electromagnetic spectrum, and cyber in my portfolio. I'm joined today on a Valentine's
Day, I couldn't be happier than to be with the crowd up here, but joined by Jade Baranski, who is the
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Mobilize. Brian Morrison, who is the VP and GM of Space,
Cyber & Intelligence Systems, General Dynamics Mission Systems.
Then, Tish Rourke, the Vice President of Cyber Intelligence and General Manager of Lockheed Martin.
Thank you so much for being here today. We're talking about AI and cyber defense, and I want to
preface this with the secretary, the announcements that the secretary and the chief made on Monday
about AFCYBER and the elevation of AFCYBER. I'm going to ask the team here to give us some thoughts
on if we're heading in the right direction, which I think that we are, and in elevating and understanding
cyber, the domain, the personnel that have a responsibility for protecting that domain as we go forward.
First though, I did ask the staff to start me off with some sort of a AI-generated poem, given that it is
Valentine's Day.
You are going to be shocked at this as to what they came up with. What they looked at is they generated
a haiku on love, AI, and cybersecurity. Here it goes. In circuits and code, love guards digital heartbeats,
AI's safe embrace. Yikes. Yikes. Thank you team for providing that to us. But yeah, I think if you take out
the love part, then yes, we've probably got some good way forward from an AI and a cyber defense
perspective. We're going to dive right in and I'm going to ask the team here to start off each of the
panelists, if they could introduce themselves. Then, just talk to us briefly for a few minutes on what it is
that you're working on in AI and cyber defense. Tish, I'm going to start with you and then we'll go this
direction.
Latisha Rourke:
Sure. I'll grab the microphone. Thank you, General, for having me here. I really appreciate that. I'm Tish
Rourke, as she said. I run the Lockheed Martin Cyber and Intelligence organization where we're really
focused on bringing together thinking of cyber as that fifth domain. We've got air, land, sea, ground.
How does cyber become the foundation of all of those things? Because it's got to be the integral part.
It's the first line of defense in warfare today. Ensuring that cyber is the first line of defense. Then, what
we're really embracing now is how to embrace AI as part of cyber to get in front of, get ahead of the
threat, not be reactionary to the threat.
Lt. Gen. Leah G. Lauderback:
Excellent. Thank you. Brian, how about you?
Brian Morrison:
Good morning. This is the only question I'll have from you, ma'am, that I'm the world's expert because
it's just about what I'm doing. I'm privileged to lead the cyberspace and intelligence business at General
Dynamics Mission Systems. The business is organized and focused almost exclusively on enabling our
