Air Force ups contract ceiling for cyber resiliency effort by $300 million
An ongoing Air Force project to develop the next-generation technologies necessary to conduct cyberspace-dependent missions had its contract ceiling raised from $500 million to $800 million, according to a Sam.gov announcement.
The Air Force Research Laboratory is running the project which encompasses aiding the Air Force with its missions: air and space superiority; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; rapid global mobility; global strike; and command and control.
Global Vigilance, for example, requires continuous situational awareness and understanding across the warfighting domains. However, maintaining this awareness, is possible only in an environment based on an assured and trusted infrastructure.
In such an environment, most threats and attacks are avoided because of the very nature and construction of the infrastructure, not because of human operators or reactive tactics. Thus, a trusted infrastructure that is secure against attacks as well as resilient (i.e., able to recover from adverse events) is a prerequisite for complex, higher-level operations.
For the Global Reach portion of the project, contractors will need to create an infrastructure where the ability to continually access and exercise command and control over warfighting forces is not impeded.
In the cyber domain, this applies to cyber assets supporting ongoing, as well as transient, on-demand missions deployed globally.
Technologies of interest to the strategic vision of the global power section include, but are not limited to: Cloud architectures, secure processors, virtualization, visualization, big data analysis, data mining, data fusion, novel protocols, evaluation & measurement techniques, cyber modeling & simulation, trusted hardware and software, mobile and embedded device security, standards for information exchange, risk management approaches, mathematically rigorous tools and techniques, formal methods, design frameworks, autonomy, deception, and means for recovery.
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