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The United States Department of Defense (DoD) is engaged in a mission to unify its software systems towards a “net-centric” vision—where commanders gain advantage by rapidly producing, consuming, and sharing information using service oriented architectures (SOAs). In this paper, we study the cyber survivability of mission-critical net-centric systems, focusing on Ballistic-Missile-Defense (BMD) systems. We propose a net-centric architecture for augmenting the survivability of critical DoD net-centric systems. Our architecture draws inspiration from several theories of warfare, focusing on the goal of giving cyber commanders “decision superiority.” Our architecture prescribes a net-centric decision-support system that implements the Cyber OODA loop (the cycle of observing, orienting, deciding, and acting within the cyber domain). We present an illustration-of-concept prototype implementation, and describe its role in a ballistic-missile exercise. We relate our experiences from this exercise and suggest future directions towards achieving net-centric cyber survivability.
This work is sponsored by the Department of Defense under Air Force Contract FA8721-05-C-0002. Opinions, interpretations, conclusions, and recommendations are those of the authors and are not necessarily endorsed by the United States Government.
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Gagnon, M.N., Truelove, J., Kapadia, A., Haines, J., Huang, O. (2010). Towards Net-Centric Cyber Survivability for Ballistic Missile Defense. In: Giese, H. (eds) Architecting Critical Systems. ISARCS 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6150. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13556-9_8
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