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Executive Summary
Cyberspace Operations
Introduction
Military Operations In and
Through Cyberspace
National Intelligence
Operations In and Through
Cyberspace
Department of Defense
Ordinary Business Operations
In and Through Cyberspace
The Joint Functions and CO
CO are composed of the military, intelligence, and
ordinary business operations of DOD in and through
cyberspace. The military component of CO, which is the
only component guided by joint doctrine, is the primary
focus of this publication. CO enhance operational
effectiveness and leverage various capabilities from
physical domains to create effects, which may span
multiple geographic combatant commanders’ (GCCs’)
AORs.
The successful execution of CO requires the integrated
and synchronized employment of offensive, defensive,
and DODIN operations, underpinned by effective and
timely operational preparation of the environment. CO
missions are categorized as offensive cyberspace
operations (OCO), defensive cyberspace operations
(DCO), and DODIN based on their intent. OCO are
CO intended to project power by the application of force
in and through cyberspace. DCO are CO intended to
defend DOD or other friendly cyberspace. DODIN
operations are actions taken to design, build, configure,
secure, operate, maintain, and sustain DOD
communications systems and networks in a way that
creates and preserves data availability, integrity,
confidentiality, as well as user/entity authentication and
non-repudiation.
National level intelligence organizations, including major
DOD agencies, conduct intelligence activities for
national intelligence priorities. This intelligence can
support a military commander’s planning and
preparation.
Ordinary business operations in and through cyberspace
are those non-warfighting capabilities and functions used
to support and sustain DOD forces in their normal dayto-day
functions, but that are not normally under the
control of a JFC. This includes the CO of the civilianrun
DOD agencies, such as the Defense Finance and
Accounting Service and the Defense Commissary
Agency. These organizations conduct routine uses of
cyberspace, as well as DODIN operations and some
internal defensive measures.
Joint Publication 3-0, Joint Operations, delineates joint
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