Acquisition/System Security Engineering

Abstract

The Acquisition/System Security Engineering (SSE) activity develops Department of the Air Force (DAF) and Department of Defense system security engineering and acquisition security processes, policies, and contracting language, and refines intelligence collection and processes to provide actionable information on cyber threats to the weapons system community. This activity bolsters DAF cyber resiliency/security by supporting common secure environments for Program Offices to share information on classified weapon system cyber intelligence, threats, and vulnerabilities. It also encompasses developing cyber resiliency training, manning strategies, and Cyber Focus Teams, which provide cyber acquisition expertise to Program Executive Offices (PEO) to address acquisition workforce gaps in cyber resiliency/security manpower, experience, and knowledge. This project hones workforce expertise and skills required to counter weapon system-unique cyber threats, which exceeds the knowledge needed to secure Internet Protocol (IP) based systems against traditional network-based cyber threats. Such expertise is critical for acquisition professionals to ensure cyber resiliency/security design tenets are integrated into the weapon system's life cycle. The project also enables rapid response to emerging peer threats by focusing on early technology readiness level (TRL) efforts via non-traditional industry partners to develop and field cyber resiliency technologies to operational users. Finally, this project includes identification, evaluation, and prioritization of emerging cyber techniques, products, and technologies for further development and prototyping to posture DAF weapon systems to counter emerging threats. This activity supports DAF Program Offices, the Protecting Critical Technologies Task Force, Defense Industrial Base data protection efforts, DAF Supply Chain Risk Management, and other weapon system cyber security/resiliency activities as required. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver CROWS weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605827F, 0605828F, 0605831F, 0605832F, 0605833F, 0605898F, 0606398F. In FY 2021 $0.032 million was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY 2022 $0.725 million is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2023
Source ID
642812_0604414F_4_3600_PB_2023

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Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber

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