Cyber Operations Technology Development

Abstract

MARFORCYBER provides advanced cyber warfare capabilities in direct support of US Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM), Marine Corps Commanders, and national agencies to enable and accomplish global operations. Activities within the project deliver cyberspace superiority capabilities through the research, development, testing, evaluation, and integration of cyber technologies. The project enables Commanders to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy targets. Research and develop software constructed cyber weapons disrupt rising advanced peer and near-peer threats, as well as violent extremist organizations seeking to do harm to the United States. The software constructed cyber weapons are target specific and require high quality, rapid adjustments to achieve desired effects at acceptable levels of risk. The specific details and aspects of these cyber activities are held at a higher classification level. Adversarial Cyber Developmental Test and Evaluation: Provides adversarial penetration testing services to Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) programs of record (PoRs) via Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA). MCTSSA serves as the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN) Cyber Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) agent in accordance with NDAA 1640, PL-113 -283, DODI 8510. 01, DODI 5000.2, CNSS-1253, NIST-SP-800-53, and the DoD Cyber Security Test and Evaluation Guidebook. MCTSSA also serves as the USMC Cyber Developmental Test (DT) Center of Excellence, conducting mission-based cyber vulnerability assessments in accordance with policy-directed taskings. Assessments include, but are not limited to, (1) zero-day discoveries, (2) target maintenance resources to prove vulnerabilities vs. false positives, (3) informing Operational Commanders and Enterprise Leadership of mission critical Cyber security issues, (3) informing prioritization of cyber security threat investment decisions, (4) informing USMC DCO staff on advanced cyber threats to increase their skill set in detecting advanced cyber attacks and threats, and (5) ensuring Command & Control (C2) enhances the resiliency of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) in a cyber-denied environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0306250M_5_1319_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: The increase of $1.220M from FY 2021 to FY 2022 is primarily attributed to the enhancement of cyber weapons systems used in an ever-changing operational environment. Funds will enable the modification of cyber weapons to increase effectiveness above the current state and create additional capabilities to increase the inventory of cyber weapons available for use against specific targets. Additionally, funding also enables adversarial cyber developmental test services in support of Marine Corps Systems Command's (MCSC) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C4I) programs of record. The FY 2022 funding request was reduced by $5.500 million to account for the availability of prior year execution balances.
• Service Agency Name: Navy

Entities

Organizations

• United States Navy

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force Research Laboratories
• Combat Support
• Contractors
• Cyber Threats
• Cyber Warfare
• Cyberattacks
• Cybersecurity
• Cyberspace
• Cyberspace Operations
• Developmental Tests
• Engineering
• Information Warfare
• Marine Corps
• Task Forces
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• Warfare

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.

Technology Areas

• Cyber