Red Teaming to Support DoD Modernization Priorities
Abstract
This project funds red teaming efforts to explore new capabilities in a competitive environment. Efforts include 1.) Early investigations and red teaming to identify and understand potential vulnerabilities and opportunities from emerging and conceptual technologies. Projects will help define and anticipate impacts from new technologies to understand operational utility and identify threats from tangentially related sectors that can have significant negative impacts on current DoD investments. 2.) Maturation of Service and Defense Agency identified prototypes to enable red teaming, demonstration, experiments, and concepts of operations earlier in the development cycle. These prototypes increase agility and rate of innovation for emerging capabilities, while reducing cost and risk. 3.) Exploring unconventional approaches to counter current Department of Defense and adversary technologies through red teams, war games, simulation exercises, and studies that employ government laboratory scientists; subject matter experts; and, students of science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines. Red teaming events range from distributed table-top games to simulated and live field exercises with non-traditional and operationally experienced participants. Deliverables include characterization of future prototypes, requirement definition, recommendations on system operational employment, potential vulnerabilities, and likely countermeasures taken by the threat as well as potential counter-countermeasures to increase functionality or operational effectiveness of the system. The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering will leverage these products to inform how technologies and integrated systems can perform in hostile environments and develop new concepts of operations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2020
- Source ID
- dc526edcdced08a323f4f05dca95527f