In the latest "Proof of Concept," DXC Technology IT CISO and CyberEdBoard member Mike Baker and Chris Hughes, co-founder and CISO of Aquia, join ISMG
u.s. contractors that could probably accelerate the training, put simulators in ukraine and put and station these aircraft within three or 400 miles of the front lines. they have to do that somewhere in ukraine because maintenance is going to be a hugely important factor. these are very complex machines and they are going to need to have a fleet of maintainers to keep these things in the air. politico has reporting this morning about the return of are trump and ukrainians now are ramping up homegrown arms industry with that return looming, suggesting that as the former president has made clear, that the u.s. is giving too much, in his opinion, to ukraine. how much can they produce without u.s. help, and how quickly can they get that up to speed? i have been to ukraine. it s the technological center of the superstormer soviet union. they have a lot of capability.
delivery, where does that stand. as you know, this involves a number of steps. first of all, you have to get the pilots trained in the netherlands and denmark are leading that effort. a number of other countries have joined in on that consortium. but they re also looking, as they do that, we know that we have to have a maintenance capability, so they re also training maintainers as well. and there s sustainment that goes along with it, and then there s improvements to airfields, and so there are a number of things that have to take place. this doesn t happen in days. it takes months to bring about that capability, but, again, netherlands and denmark are doing a credible job, a remarkable job in moving out. they re enlisting the aid of other countries. and they ll provide that capability as quickly as we can. no sense of give me a time line when those first f-16s will
lots of spare maintainers and weapon stocks but the key thing is the time i because training the pilots many daysis i because training the pilots many days is the easy bit of a difficult bit is how you set up a maintenance and logistics chain to train to service and flavius jets once they are there that kind of set up from being quickly identified and struck by russian long range cruise missiles. there like that to be dispersed and hidden, i think that is realistic and the bulk of the time. and what is taking the bulk of the time. time. and what is taking the bulk of the time- of the time. these things do take a lot of time but of the time. these things do take a lot of time but ukrainians, - of the time. these things do take a lot of time but ukrainians, we - of the time. these things do take a lot of time but ukrainians, we talk| lot of time but ukrainians, we talk to them on the ground, they say they need air support now. and they re desperate for it. when talked about
that s what our letter calls for is an expedited all of government, all of alliance effort to train the pilots, find the f-16s, and transfer them either directly from the united states or a transfer from one of our allies, as there s f-16ings throughout the nato alliance in several countries might be able to transfer them much quicker than we could. but also train the maintainers. these are sophisticated aircraft. that s why they re so good. they require a tremendous amount of back-end support and sustainment. so we re going to train the mechanics, get the fuel supplies going. there s a lot of things that have to happen now so that six months, nine months from now these aircraft can be flying over ukrainian skies. that s what we re pushing the administration to do. the russian foreign minister said f-16s could accommodate nuclear weapons. he s clearly sending a message here. what is he really saying? as you see it, and does that dissuade you from pushing for this? fwirst of all,