INNOVATIVE DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES, LLC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: N201-064

Description

The Navy needs a software architecture and digital system model capable of providing USW planners a comprehensive assessment of the cybersecurity posture of a geographically distributed network of disparate sensors communicating through paths fundamentally dependent on environmental factors. This digital system model will represent the cybersecurity posture of each category of USW sensor and platform, including surface combatants, unmanned vehicles, submarines, air vehicles, surveillance assets, expendables associated with these platforms, and the communication pathways between these geographically dispersed sensors and platforms.   Incorporation of this digital system model into USW-DSS will also allow theater commanders to include cybersecurity in mission planning, mission execution, and post-mission analysis and reduce engineering efforts to provide Objective Quality Evidence (OQE) for the system cybersecurity resiliency in operational environments.   Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) involves allocation of ASW platforms to search for, detect, classify, track and prosecute threat submarines within a changing ASW search environment. As the search environment evolves, continuously collected cyber data feeds will be used to assess the impact of the current and forecasted cyber environment on individual sensors and weapon platforms to search for, detect, and track threat cyber risks and events both in-progress and predicted.  This assessment is presented by a new architecture, called Sea Cyber, to the ASW Commander enabling them to adapt around cyber-attacks or in making go/no-go decisions.   Sea Cyber, a new architecture based on the existing ATRT Attack Vector Analysis (AVA) framework, delivers cross-platform cybersecurity posture analysis from “Chip to Ship” with Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) and Time Sensitive Targeting (TST) from an adversarial perspective.    Sea Cyber is a scalable Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) simulation-emulation adversarial cyber modeling environment to facilitate cybersecurity analysis, cyber situational awareness, test and evaluation, mission planning and mission rehearsals for USW-ASW.  The ATRT framework allows it to quickly adapt to any scenario or mission.   Sea Cyber provides a digital system model of actual and planned theater assets allowing designers to assess the cybersecurity implications of distributed and unmanned systems as they communicate and operate in the physical environment.  Sea Cyber’s digital system model represents the cybersecurity posture of each category of ASW sensor and platform, including surface combatants, unmanned vehicles, submarines, air vehicles, surveillance assets, and expendables associated with these platforms.  Sea Cyber ties big data from Internet-of-Things in Ocean into security analytics and drives towards an extensible centralized platform to effectively enable rapid analysis and detection for advanced security threats to the ASW mission.