IKE is a far cry from the prior decade of cyber operations, a period of manual combat that involved the most mundane of tools. It can automatically run strings of programs and adjusts constantly as it absorbs information. It tracks every keystroke made by the 200 fighters working on computers below the big screens and churns out predictions about the possibility of success on individual cyber missions. If the Joint Operations Center is the physical embodiment of a new era in cyber warfare - the art of using computer code to attack and defend targets ranging from tanks to email servers - IKE is the brains. The room looks no different than a standard government auditorium, but IKE represents a radical leap forward.
