Mission Risk Analysis
Abstract
Discover and analyze cyber susceptibilities/vulnerabilities to Department of the Air Force (DAF) weapon systems and characterize their impacts based on mission risk. Promote the enhancement of cyber discovery methodologies and capabilities within DAF. Focus is on assessing the gaps and seams that exist between defined weapon system boundaries and within areas that are not assigned to specific weapon system program offices. This activity builds upon existing efforts that identify and mitigate cyber vulnerabilities, and does not duplicate similar ongoing efforts or conduct redundant assessments on systems that have already been evaluated. As the Acquisition/System Security Engineering activity under Project 642812 develops Cyber Focus Teams, additional, more robust assessment data sets will be generated for CROWS to continue identifying and validating vulnerabilities. This activity disseminates cyber risk information to inform acquisition decisions, provides feedback to focus future assessments and also feeds into the Mitigations activity under Project 642834. The Acquisition/System Security Engineering (SSE) activity develops 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 project 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. 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2023
- Source ID
- 642836_0604414F_4_3600_PB_2023
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