Summarized by the Alliance for Fort Gordon
Published June 12, 2026
US Cyber Command’s new Cyber Warfare Innovation Center will pair operators and members of industry side by side in order to drive faster capabilities and tactics, and bridge the so-called valley of death.
“For too long, prototypes developed by industry have withered in the so-called valley of death, failing to transition to operational use. We do not have the luxury of time anymore to let good technology sit on the shelf,” Katie Sutton, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Cyber Policy, said here at the TechNet Cyber conference today. “The Cyber Innovation Warfare Center, or the CIWC, will be our proving ground, a collaborative environment where operators and industry will sit side by side to test new concepts against realistic threats and operational scenarios.”