Leveraging Next Generation Cyber Joint Service Capabilities
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. The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) recognized cyber as an actively contested domain with significant security challenges and potential leap-ahead capabilities for military operations. By focusing on higher risk research ideas with major potential impacts, the Cybersecurity program addresses one of the NDS’s mission focus areas of cybersecurity. The program works to advance the state of cybersecurity by judiciously exploring research in the areas of Behavioral Cyber Science; Self-Securing Systems; Precise Cyber Effects; and Applied Mathematics for Cyber. These thrusts provide an opportunity to identify and advance foundational technologies to support all Services and Agencies. Research in Behavioral Cyber Science advances understanding and the technical rigor of modeling and predicting human responses to cyber activities that enhance cyber operations through planning, and training. Exploring the interaction between computers and human behavior, moving beyond electronic signals (ones and zeroes) enables development of new insights to human behavior. Exploring Self-Securing Systems, platforms, and networks will help DoD operators react more quickly to cyber-attacks. Equipping future DoD systems with the capability to proactively, autonomously, and seamlessly access cyber threats and deploy self-securing mechanisms to neutralize cyber-attacks, offers blue force an innovative new disruptive capability. Precise Cyber Effects provide scalable cyber options for military cyber commanders to precisely identify and engage specific threats and targets with a high confidence of success. This high-risk research provides a disproportionate advantage in modeling cyber with high variability architectures for blue, gray, and red space that would potentially afford real opportunities. Finally advancements in mathematical foundations of cyber cut across all three thrust areas producing new provable methods to design, secure, 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- d866f2711b289d2a2e34e11d28d75019
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