Part of U.S. Cyber Command’s billion dollar training contract was ready at the right time this year as more than 500 personnel worldwide came together virtually during the coronavirus pandemic to stop simulated cyber attacks.
Cyber Flag — a mass cyber training exercise that brings together different military services, countries and government agencies — was able to continue this year in part because of the Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE).
PCTE allowed Cyber Flag to move forward even as COVID-19 kept the 17 teams participating in the event from working in the same physical location.
“In Cyber Flag 18 and Cyber Flag 19 conducted in the previous years, we would bring about 800 cyber mission force warfighters, allies and interagency partners together at the Joint Staff facility in Virginia to conduct training in a range that was geographically located in that area,” Rear Admiral John W. Mauger, CYBERCOM director of exercises, told reporters Wednesday.
“As we went into the COVID-19 environment, we realized that the opportunity to bring that many people together into a single facility was…
