The military on Tuesday completed a reorganization of its C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate, with a new artificial intelligence unit and an expanded electronic warfare array that will further enhance Israel’s defensive cyber capabilities, including countering drone attacks.

The directorate, headed by Maj. Gen. Aviad Dagan, is responsible for building and maintaining the military’s networking and computer systems, as well as defensive cyberspace capabilities and the management of the electromagnetic spectrum, or radio waves.

The restructuring will establish two new divisions, consolidating several smaller departments and forming new units. In total, the directorate will now have five divisions, each headed by a brigadier general.

The top-level units include the Operational Division and C4I Corps (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence,) headed by Chief Signals Officer Brig. Gen. Omer Cohen, and the force build-up division, headed by the directorate’s chief of staff, Brig. Gen. Yael Chaya Grossman.

Below those units are three more divisions, two of which — the Spectrum and Communications Division and Information and Artificial Intelligence Division — were recently formed.

The Spectrum and Communications Division is responsible for the management and exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as for strategic........

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