#40 Erica Mitchell on Jack Voltaic

During this episode, <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericamitchell01/">LTC Erica Mitchell</a> discusses the <a href= "https://cyber.army.mil/Research/Jack-Voltaic/">Army Cyber Institute’s Jack Voltaic (JV) project</a>, which studies response gaps alongside assembled partners to identify interdependencies among critical infrastructure sectors, provide recommendations, and prevent strategic surprise. JV provides an innovative, bottom‐up approach to critical infrastructure resilience in two unique ways. Whereas most federal efforts to improve resiliency focus on regional or multistate emergency response, JV focuses on cities and municipalities where critical infrastructure and populations are most heavily populated. Furthermore, JV deviates from other cybersecurity and national preparedness exercises in that it builds around areas of interest nominated by the participants. Although JV events include national-level capabilities and resources, they are conceptually driven by the concerns of the cities and their infrastructure partners. Through this approach, the Department of Defense is able to harvest insights about potential roles, dependencies, partners, and support requests, while cities are able to discover potential capability gaps and expand their critical infrastructure information-sharing networks before a potential disaster strikes. The flexible JV platform is capable of including information operations scenarios, as well. <a href= "https://information-professionals.org/episode/cognitive-crucible-episode-40"> Link to full show notes and resources</a> <p><strong>Bio</strong>: <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericamitchell01/">Lieutenant Colonel Erica Mitchell</a> is the Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources (CIKR) Research Group Chief for the Army Cyber Institute and Assistant Professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point. She graduated from West Point with a B.S. in American Legal Systems, was commissioned as