Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Increment 2 Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses (PARCA)

Abstract

The Director, Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analyses asked the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) to conduct a root cause analysis of the Public Key Infrastructure Increment 2 program, based on the 31 October 2013 Critical Change declared by the National Security Agency Senior Acquisition Executive. The primary proximate cause of the Critical Change relates to the inability of the program to resolve the unsuitability ratings it received from Initial Operational Test and Evaluation and Follow-on Operational Test and Evaluation. This paper summarizes IDAs understanding of the problem, our methodology, and our findings.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1009301

Entities

People

  • Benjamin S. Aronin
  • Brandon R. Gould
  • Patricia F. Bronson

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Authentication
  • Configuration Management
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Governments
  • Identification Systems
  • Information Operations
  • Logistics
  • National Security
  • Network Protocols
  • Organizational Structure
  • Procurement
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States Southern Command

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management