Cyber Applied Research

Abstract

Our military forces require resilient, reliable networks and computer systems to conduct effective operations. However, the number and sophistication of threats in cyberspace are rapidly growing, making it urgent and critical to improve the cyber security of Department of Defense (DoD) networks to counter those threats and assure our missions. This program focuses on innovative and sustained research in both cyber security and computer network operations to develop new concepts to harden key network and computer components, design new resilient cyber infrastructures, increase the military’s ability to fight and survive during cyber attacks, disrupt nation-state level attack planning and execution, measure the state of cyber security, and explore and exploit new ideas in cyber warfare for agile cyber operations and mission assurance. The Cyber Applied Research program element is budgeted in the applied research budget activity because it emphasizes an approach to develop new security paradigms and architectures to enable agile cyber operations in a resilient and trustworthy cyberspace. These approaches will include moving from cyber defense to cyber resilience by changing the defensive terrain of our existing digital infrastructure, identifying ways to raise the risk and lower the value of attack from an advanced, persistent cyber threat, and focusing on mission assurance. The Cyber Applied Research program builds on the existing basic and applied research results and transition new successful applied research results to the Cyber Advanced Technology Development program element (0603668D8Z). This program focuses on integrating computer network defense and computer network operations, addressing the advanced persistent threat, and filling DoD technology gaps as identified in the 2012 Cyber Priority Steering Council Science & Technology Roadmap and assessments conducted by the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research & Engineering (OASD(R&E)).

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0602668D8Z_2_0400_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
Baseline adjustments are reflective of DoD priorities and requirements.
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Circuit Boards
  • Computer Networks
  • Computers
  • Cyber Warfare
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Systems
  • Network Science
  • Networks
  • Printed Circuit Boards
  • Printed Circuits
  • Simulations
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber

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