The Pentagon has initiated the FORTRESS America Program Office, a new initiative aimed at securing domestic military assets and infrastructure against a range of threats, including cyberattacks, sabotage, and supply chain disruptions. This move is part of a broader government plan to enhance national resilience. The program builds upon Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s recent announcement and is described as the Pentagon’s new “national insurance policy” for homeland protection, as first reported by Defensescoop.
FORTRESS, which stands for Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply and Survivability, mandates that major military installations generate their own power, independent of the civilian grid, to ensure continued operations during outages caused by cyberattacks or sabotage. The program also focuses on hardening installations against cyber intrusions and drones, securing airwaves, satellites, and spectrum for reliable communication and navigation.
Richard “Matt” O’Malley has been designated as the Interim Director of the FORTRESS America Program Office. The program will concentrate on five key pillars: space and spectrum resilience, installation hardening and cyber resilience, energy independence, supply chain and defense industrial base resilience, and establishing a strategic defense reserve. Eight senior officials have been instructed to designate representatives to coordinate with O’Malley on developing the implementation plan.
Source: Defensescoop
