{"id":165986,"date":"2012-11-28T16:56:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123327869"},"modified":"2012-11-28T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T20:56:00","slug":"afnic-simulator-enables-realistic-training-for-cyber-flag-13-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=165986","title":{"rendered":"AFNIC simulator enables realistic training for Cyber Flag 13-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Network Integration Center engineers recently provided support to U.S. Cyber Command&#8217;s annual cyber exercise, Cyber Flag 13-1, which took place Oct. 29 &#8211; Nov. 8 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber Flag, a joint cyberspace training exercise, is designed to provide realistic training opportunities for a number of Department of Defense commands to deter, and if necessary, defeat a cyber attack against the department.<\/p>\n<p>To provide this realistic training, USCYBERCOM called upon the expertise and capability of AFNIC&#8217;s Cyber Force Integration Team. For over 10 years, this team has managed and maintained the Air Force&#8217;s Simulator Training Exercise (SIMTEX) range, which simulates the service&#8217;s three-tiered network operations and security structure, giving cyber operators valuable hands-on experience within a safe, secure environment that is separate from the operational network.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123327869\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Force Network Integration Center engineers recently provided support to U.S. Cyber Command&#8217;s annual cyber exercise, Cyber Flag 13-1, which took place Oct. 29 &#8211; Nov. 8 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.<\/p>\n<p>Cyber Flag, a joint cyberspace training exercis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}