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The Evolution of Cyberspace

The Evolution of Cyberspace. New Horizons Symposium 28 Feb 2012. Brig Gen Marty Whelan Director of Requirements AFSPC/A5. DISTRIBUTION A: Approved for public release; distribution unlimited. Today’s Warfighter Depends on Space and Cyberspace. COMMUNICATIONS . MISSILE WARNING. WEATHER.

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The Evolution of Cyberspace

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  1. The Evolution of Cyberspace New Horizons Symposium 28 Feb 2012 Brig Gen Marty Whelan Director of Requirements AFSPC/A5 DISTRIBUTION A: Approved for public release; distribution unlimited

  2. Today’s Warfighter Depends on Space and Cyberspace COMMUNICATIONS MISSILE WARNING WEATHER NAVIGATION 001001010100101011100010101001010100101101000011001010101011100001001010010010101100001101010001110101110000010101100101010011101011010110101101011010101110101010100 0010010101001010111000101010010101001011010000110010101010111000010010100100101010001110101110000010101100101010011101011010110101101011010101110101010100 001001010100101011100010101001010100101101000011001010100101010101101001001010101010101010111010110101101001001010101010101001101011010101110101010100 00100101010010101110001010100101010010110100001100101010010101000001001001011010010111010110101101011010110101011101001010101010110101011010100 001001010100101011100010101001010100101101000011001010101010101001010001011000011100010100101010011101011010110101101011010101110101010100 INTEL, SURVEILLANCE & RECONNAISSANCE SPACE ACCESS Space and Cyberspace capabilities enable the American way of warfare SPACE SURVEILLANCE MISSILE DEFENSE 2

  3. Space & Cyber in Joint Operations • Irregular Warfare • Enable distributed operations • Orchestrate and synchronize multiple actions • Enable persistent surveillance • Regular Warfare • Find, prosecute targets • Distribute data, intent and link forces • Enable C2 • Assess results GPS SBIRS Computer Systems Networks DMSP WGS DSP Assured Access • Global Assessment • Monitor and revisit deep, denied areas • Provide immediate warning • Enable data fusion • Crisis Management • Provide national C2 under stress • Enable search, rescue, mobility • Allow “sharable” situational awareness • See the Battlefield with Clarity • Communicate with Certainty • Navigate with Accuracy • Strike with Precision • Operate with Assurance • Acquire with Agility 3

  4. Air Force Space Command What We Do • Space • Provide Joint warfighting space capabilities • Acquire space systems • Provide assured access to space • Assured capabilities across the spectrum • Cyberspace • Present full spectrum capabilities for the Jointwarfighter in, through and from cyberspace • Extend, operate and defend the AF portion of theDoD Network • Establish requirements for future cyberspace systems/capabilities • Assured capabilities across the spectrum 4

  5. Space and Cyberspace: The Reality • Growing Demand • Growing Threats • Resource Constrained • Environment 5

  6. SINE Operational View: The Future • Growing Demand • Growing Threats • Resource Constraind • Environment 6

  7. FOUO How do we reach the future • Innovate: deliver resilient, cost-effective capabilities to the warfighter • Evolve: requirements/acquisition processes • Fund: must identify and fund the true needs AFSPC/CC Priorities Support the Joint Fight Control Acquisition Costs Operationalize/normalize cyberspace 7

  8. Innovation:Competency, Connection, Champion • Connection • The innovator: industry, academia, or our own come up with the good ideas • “Ideas” go through HQ AFSPC Innovation Forum • AFSPC Entry point is Livelink Innovation Webpage (innovation.wf@us.af.mil) • Competency • Technical experts vet possibilities • Staff work with idea generator • Champion • Periodic Senior Forum established to review “ideas” • Senior-level advocacy then assignment to Center/lab • Follows Public Law/DoD 5000 series processes but with better input Game Changing Ideas will get here differently then operate the same 8 FOUO

  9. Evolving Requirements & Acquisition Process Warfighter Requirements DoD and AF are working to determine best method for cyber acquisitions… … while staying up to date on current/future technologies. 9

  10. Funding Impacts • President’s direction to cut ~$487B over 10 years • Ongoing debt ceiling negotiations likely to drive further funding reductions across DoD • AFSPC will continue to support the Core Function Master Plan strategy: • Ensure continuity of critical capabilities in support of national and joint requirements • Modernize or improve cyberspace and space capabilities using technically feasible and fiscally sound strategies • Leverage partnerships or rely on commercial capabilities when beneficial to DoD 10

  11. FOUO Mission Area Innovation Opportunities • Unique challenges facing each mission area • Rate of technological change • Rapid development/deployment • Cross mission collaboration/data fusion tools • Shrinking budgets • Key opportunities for industry partners • NextGen technical solutions • Transition from “tools” to “capabilities” • Capabilities that are interoperable 11

  12. Cyber Infrastructure Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Standardization to a single AFNet • Capable and sustainable enterprise solutions • Rapid acquisition processes • Continued DOD Budget cuts, efficiency demands • Contracting process to purchase IT equipment • Industry Opportunities • Effective Asset Management • Innovative, interoperable enterprise solutions • Unified Communications • Lessons learned • Efficiency gains • Data Center Consolidation • Lessons learned • “Green” data center implementations • Rapid network monitoring and management across compliant and non-compliant systems 12

  13. Cyber Operations Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Assured information protection • Legacy capabilities oriented toward detection vice prevention • Timely awareness/characterization of potential threats • DoD acquisition processes, while improved, are still slow to need • Increase operational cost to attacker while lowering the benefit • Industry Opportunities • Develop hardened/defensible/reliable AF networks leveraging current technologies, architectures and resources • Provide proactive capabilities to actively prevent cyber threats • Fuse cyber data to create actionable information and assure AF missions • Leverage existing/future Cyber Acquisitions process to deliver best value 13

  14. Cyber Warfare Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Funding • Growing mission area vs. shrinking budgets (i.e., Budget Control Act) • Qualification Training • Demand increasing faster than throughput • Intel support to cyber program development • Normalize cyber intelligence requirements and prioritize support • Industry Opportunities • Cyberspace domain continues to change at “light speed” • Must be able to keep up with new technology • Transition of “tools” to “capabilities” 14

  15. MILSATCOM Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Addressing the entire SATCOM enterprise for 2025 & beyond • Developing a strategy to better leverage military, commercial, civil, and international solutions, including business models • Situational awareness and protection of space assets • Industry Opportunities • Create innovative solutions to future SATCOM requirements • Create operator-to-satellite open/service oriented ground system architectures • Consolidate functions and capabilities across multiple systems • Synchronize mission threads 15

  16. MILSATCOM Terminals Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Developing XDR-capable terminals for AEHF • Timely integration of delivered terminals into platforms • Synchronizing terminal deliveries and platform integration with new on-orbit SATCOM capabilities • Industry Opportunities • Ka-band capable terminals possibly for additional airborne platforms (e.g. AMC) to take advantage of WGS on-orbit assets • New terminal opportunities resulting from a future Analysis of Alternatives study to follow the JSCL Initial Capabilities Document   16

  17. Missile Warning/Defense Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges: • Resiliency with lower cost & manpower • Control cost, schedule, performance • Support Netcentric Operations • Integrate Cyber Capabilities into MW/MD portfolio • Standardize MW/SSA reporting • Industry Opportunities: • Invest in data compression and large data transmission • Develop, register, and expose services for gov’t subscription/reuse • Maximize Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) 17

  18. SSA/C2-Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Fiscally constrained environment for several years • Maintain, sustain and exploit existing capabilities • Leverage other non-traditional sensor capabilities • Exploit mission partner and coalition capabilities • JFCC-Space requires timely actionable information • Integration of Space and Cyberspace touch points • Industry Opportunities • Leverage/Exploit existing sensors for enhanced sensitivity/capacity • Develop methods & means to maintain chain of custody • Improve environmental forecasting & effects capabilities • Ground-based optical sensors for deep space search & discovery • Next generation space-based optical system for timely re-visit • Dynamic ability to process extensive amounts of new data • Establish commercial & coalition partnerships • Cross mission collaboration/data fusion tools 18

  19. Space Launch Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Aging infrastructure; difficult to operate and maintain • Increasing costs • Utilizing launch manifest more efficiently • Sustaining space launch industrial base • Orbital debris mitigation compliance • Industry Opportunities • New entrants • Reduced cost • Enhanced resiliency 19

  20. Launch Ranges Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Aging infrastructure and fiscal constraints present operations and sustainment challenges; instrument reliability opposed to excessive redundancy • Variety of non-standard launch systems driven by diverse customer needs • Real-time data receive, processing and display drive costs for robust systems with a “no-fail” design • Multiple independent contracts for operations at each range, plus overarching sustainment – drives contract overhead costs for all contracts • Industry Opportunities • Propose range safety strategy that does not require significant investment on the range or from launch customers; solutions that require significant capital investment on the range or launch customers are a non-starter • Propose efficiencies in day-to-day operations and sustainment of range infrastructure (current and future as mentioned above) using a single consolidated contract 20

  21. SATOPS/AFSCN Challenges and Opportunities • Challenges • Non-materiel (non-developmental) solutions for consolidating common SATOPS tasks across multiple satellite operating units • Operational concepts for on-demand, protected, agile SATOPS • Net-centric AFSCN operating concepts – present users and operators with a web-like interface • Industry Opportunities • Concept development – how to achieve capability with non-materiel (non-developmental) approaches; enterprise data standards 21

  22. Summary • Space and cyberspace capabilities – vital to national security and the Joint fight • Single MAJCOM – enhance synergies between space and cyberspace • Domain challenges – competitive, congested, contested • Keys to success – innovate, evolve, fund Excellence: Global and Beyond 22

  23. QUESTIONS? The Leading source of emerging and integrated space and cyberspace capabilities

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