CYBER TECHNOLOGY
Abstract
The Cyber Technology project supports long term national security requirements through the development and demonstration of technology to increase the security of military information systems. Over the past decade the DoD has embraced net-centric warfare to enable geographically dispersed forces to attain a high level of shared battlespace awareness that is exploited to achieve strategic, operational, and tactical objectives. This involves networking people, platforms, weapons, sensors, and decision aids to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. The results are networked forces that operate with increased speed and synchronization and are capable of achieving massed effects without the physical massing of forces as required in the past. Adversaries seek to limit this "force multiplier" effect through cyber attacks intended to degrade, disrupt, or deny military computing, communications, and networking systems. 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. Technologies developed under the Cyber Technology project will ensure DoD cyber-capabilities survive adversary cyber attacks. Promising technologies will transition to system-level projects.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- IT-05_0602303E_2_0400_PB_2012
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