Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Army Gen. Martin Dempsey said the recent hacking of Sony Pictures by North Korea “confirmed” the need for new cyber legislation. Speaking on “Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace,” Dempsey said he and Army Gen. Keith Alexander, then-head of the National Security Agency, started pushing two years ago for legislation that “account for two things that are vulnerabilities in our ability to protect ourselves in cyber,” including “some level of … cyber standards” and “the ability of the government and [the private sector] to share information about attacks, whether it’s the signatures of attacks or the actual occurrence of attacks.” Dempsey said those efforts failed at the time, noting the US does not have the advantage in the cyber domain. “It’s a level playing field, and that makes this Chairman very uncomfortable,” said Dempsey. (Pentagon report.)
The Air Force conducted its first successful test of the Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon, or ARRW, on May 14, snapping a streak of three consecutive failed tests and giving the beleaguered hypersonics program a much needed boost. Off the coast of Southern California, the AGM-183A ARRW separated from the wing…