Name: What will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years? (NATO Review)
Uploaded: 2014-09-09T07:21:05.000Z
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What will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years?

We asked representatives of six leading defence companies

what they think will be the biggest threats in the next 10 years.

We still don't understand infrastructure protection

As we sit here at the entrance of the Bosporus

and you look at all the shipping going through,

it wouldn’t take much to distort, to disrupt the flow of that,

causing confusion and who is going which way and so forth.

So, this is a serious threat we have to pay attention to.

I think, again from my commercial aircraft’s side,

As commercial airplanes become more and more digital and electronic,

we have actually started to put cyber protection

into the software of our commercial airplanes.

Because as they enter an airport environment,

they’re starting to exchange information.

And so we have to able to protect the aircraft software itself.

So, a lot of issues coming down the road, just on cyber alone.

The new global commons is cyber, the network.

Every single item that we have depends on cyber.

fundamentally define every single financial transaction.

All of our critical infrastructure is controlled by some sort of network.

has to be the area where we’re going to face problems.

And we’re going to have to spend a fortune actually.

There will be a massive shift towards unmanned systems,

There will be a massive increase in interoperability,

And many have called that the ‘Internet of things’.

Just about every tangible device could be connected in some way,

Not just your smartphone, everything in your life

being somehow enabled with some degree of connectivity.

What used to be just looking for enemy targets,

now can help you in some of our satellite constellations today,

looking towards the Arctic, where someone may have an issue

and need combat search and rescue or better awareness.

I think the tools for that are going to be

far more heavily relied on, just as we do with our iPhone today.

We’re looking at all those areas that allow

whether it’s joined ISTAR, whether it’s cyber,

all those areas that quote unquote connect forces

and allow them to multiply the capability,

I think basically to fast reaction equipment,

and possibility to move the right equipment to exact targeting

it’s connected to information technology in many parts.

And I think that’s probably the thing that will be moving ahead

if we see the trends today. The problem with trends is

that they will be interrupted by other things.