CYBER SCIENCES
Abstract
The Cyber Sciences project supports long term national security requirements through scientific research and experimentation in cyber-security. Networked computing systems control virtually everything, from power plants and energy distribution, transportation systems, food and water distribution, financial systems, to defense systems. Protecting the infrastructure on which these systems rely is a national security issue. Cyberspace is not only critical to our national security, it is fundamental to our way of life: over the past decade information technologies have driven the productivity gains essential to U.S. economic competitiveness. Unfortunately, during the same period, cyber-adversaries, which include nation-states, criminal/terrorist groups, transnational actors, and miscreants, have grown rapidly in sophistication and number. Due to its importance and the emergence of these threats, cyberspace is now recognized as a critical warfighting domain, equal in importance to the more traditional domains of sea, air, land, and space. The Cyber Sciences project will ensure DoD cyber-capabilities survive adversary attempts to degrade, disrupt, or deny military computing, communications, and networking systems. Basic research in cyber security is required to provide a basis for continuing progress in this area. Promising research results will transition to both technology development and system-level projects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- CYS-01_0601101E_1_0400_PB_2012
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