OUSD(R&E) Cyber Technologies
Abstract
Integrating both defensive and offensive innovative cyber research within the DoD cyber science and technology (S&T) enterprise to develop interoperable, defense-wide technology options that address joint force challenges in full spectrum cyber operations. Augmented Cognition for Cyber Operations: Improve a cyber operator’s ability to make evidence-based decisions and act in a cyber domain characterized by ever increasing size, speed, and complexity. Augmented cognition is focused on adapting, improving, and increasing the cognitive capacity and capabilities of cyber operators through artificial enhancements. These enhancements may be external, such as through computational means (e.g., intelligent agents), or internal, such as through behavioral (e.g., training and education) or physical (e.g., intercranial stimulation) means. Precision Cyber Operations: Improvement of cyber offensive and defensive capabilities by increasing the likelihood of the cyber operator achieving the desired effect while minimizing collateral damage. Integrates sensing and electromagnetic spectrum technologies to increase operational agility, speed, and accuracy. Effects from a proposed courses of action should be quantified and supported by subjective evidence. Applied Mathematics for Cyber: Advancements in cyberspace-relevant mathematics such as machine learning and artificial intelligence cut across all three thrust areas producing new provable methods to design, secure, assess, and reason about complex cyber systems. There is a need for an array of formal and informal modeling techniques, backed by various rigorous mathematical theories, to capture and support the richness of the cyber domain. These collective capabilities are fundamentally crucial for DoD to achieve dominance in cyber situation awareness, decision-making, automating implementation of courses of action, and delivering cyber capabilities at the speed of need. Dependable Systems and Networks: Increase the availability, reliability, survivability and integrity of cyber systems and networks providing critical military capabilities from design faults, natural component failures, and effects stemming from adversarial cyber attacks.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- cfc9e08e7981cf01fd9b2058a6de3c48
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