Volume 1, Issue 1 (2025) HammerCon 2025 Edition

Current Issue: Volume 8, Issue 1, HammerCon 2025 Edition

Military Cyber Affairs (MCA) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published by the Military Cyber Professionals Association (MCPA). MCA (International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 2378-0789) provides a multi-disciplinary forum for scholarship and discussion of cyber operations, cybersecurity, and cyber defense, and their military implications, drawing from the fields of intelligence, engineering, information technology, law and policy, among others. Founded within the rich scholarly environment of the Naval Postgraduate School, the MCPA and its peer-reviewed journal, MCA, continue to enjoy deepening relationships with the leading minds of our broader military cyber community of interest. This issue of MCA is the second published in close collaboration with the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD (R&E)), also known as the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Technology Officer (CTO), and their growing Virtual Cyber and Electromagnetic Spectrum Research and Employ (VICEROY) program. Every article in this issue is written by VICEROY Scholars who offer insights into some of our field’s most challenging issues. MCPA’s Military Cyber Institute (MCI) has also guided this issue. MCI is MCPA’s growing research and publications initiative, and I am humbled and honored to serve as the inaugural Director of the MCI in close partnership with the MCA Editor in Chief. In addition to our authors, I thank the national sponsors of the MCPA who enable this important work: Microsoft, CACI, Google Cloud, Peraton, CrowdStrike, Leidos, VICEROY, Capitol Technology University, and Cisco. The University of South Florida (USF) Library System and Senior Editor, Dr. Randy Borum, deserve special acknowledgement for their continuing support of this journal. Finally, I thank our VICEROY faculty advisors, article reviewers, our MCA Special Advisor Dr. Joseph Billingsley, the rest of the MCA team, and especially the many MCPA volunteers who make this work possible. Enjoy! Joseph H. Schafer, Ph.D. Amy S. Hamilton, Ph.D. Director, Military Cyber Institute Editor in Chief, Military Cyber Affairs