I too am puzzled by what the defense industry thinks Silicon Valley is going to be able to produce, but that's the point of Silicon Valley - huge amount of crea

I too am puzzled by what the defense industry thinks Silicon Valley is going to be able to produce, but that's the point of Silicon Valley - huge amount of creative potential and ambition. It's not likely that all of the solutions will be cyberweapons. One of the largest and most impressive responses to cyberwarfare to date are the US's information sharing programs. These programs and formats (STYX, TAXI, etc) enable patterns from detected cyberattacks to be rapidly shared across industries so that exploits and tactics, command and control centers and so forth can't be repeated. This raises the cost to the attackers, aggravates them, and slows them down. Some of these programs have automated components with minimal human interaction in the loop. So I think it is these sorts of solutions the DoD is likely looking for.