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Protecting Missions From Cyber Attack With Real-Time Risk Maps

May 2023

Perhaps the greatest challenge in protecting mission-critical systems from cyberattack is that there are so many possible ways an adversary could strike. A shipboard missile system in the Pacific, for example, might be disabled by an adversary that jams satellites or spoofs sensors, or disrupts command-and-control communications, or perhaps shuts off power to the cooling system of a building, a thousand miles away, that houses DoD computer servers.

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Quantum Sensing: A New Approach To Maintaining PNT In GPS-Denied Environments

April 2023

In the event of a conflict or confrontation, the joint and allied force could lose access to satellite capabilities, most notably GPS. Ships, submarines, and aircraft would need to rely almost entirely on other technologies for positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), particularly inertial systems.

Unfortunately, because inertial navigation devices such as gyroscopes and accelerometers lose accuracy over time—and wouldn’t be able to be recalibrated in a GPS-denied environment—inertial navigation would be reliable for only a limited period.

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Creating A Digital OPLAN Environment To Integrate Allies And Partners In The Indo-Pacific

February 2023

Comprehensive operation plans (OPLANs) can help integrate the U.S. and its allies and partners across the Indo-Pacific—but to stay ahead of fast-moving changes in the region, it is increasingly important that the plans be frequently and rapidly updated. The challenge is that OPLANs tend to be static documents that often must be updated manually, a process that can be cumbersome, time-consuming, and incomplete.

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How AI Can Help Integrate Allies And Partners In The Indo-Pacific

December 2022

One of the challenges in integrating the U.S. and its allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific is that there is a great deal of complexity in how a potential adversary might engage each of the different countries in different ways leading up to a conflict——tactically, strategically, economically, and politically. And there is just as much complexity in how each country might respond in its own way.

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Protecting Classified Algorithms In Unmanned Systems In The Pacific

October 2022

In the coming years, the joint forces will increasingly use artificial intelligence in unmanned systems in the Pacific. Many of the algorithms will be mission-specific and classified, making them potential targets of adversaries who may try to steal or disrupt them.

Protecting classified algorithms in unmanned systems in the Pacific presents a unique set of challenges. Unmanned systems may operate closer to adversaries than manned systems. And with unmanned systems, humans may not be available to detect attacks on the AI and take corrective measures.

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How AI Can Help The Joint Forces With Persistent Targeting

May 2022

One of the thorniest challenges in the Indo-Pacific is persistent targeting—how can the joint forces keep track of a constantly changing array of often fast-moving targets, over vast open spaces, against adversaries adept at hiding what they’re doing? How can you make sure you’re always matching up the right sensors with the right targets, and at exactly the right times, so you can maintain custody on critical targets with the needed handoff from
one sensor to the next?

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Making Digital Engineering For Unmanned Systems More Open

December 2021

Unmanned maritime systems (UMS) are poised to become a leading-edge capability for the Navy in potentially contested environments in the Western Pacific. As this unfolds, China will likely respond by aggressively introducing new methods and solutions to blunt the UMS’ effectiveness. The Navy will then need to introduce even more advanced sensors, analytics and other technologies – which the Chinese in turn will seek to counter as quickly as they can.

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Making Digital Engineering For Unmanned Systems More Open

November 2021

Unmanned maritime systems (UMS) are poised to become a leading-edge capability for the Navy in potentially contested environments in the Western Pacific. As this unfolds, China will likely respond by aggressively introducing new methods and solutions to blunt the UMS’ effectiveness. The Navy will then need to introduce even more advanced sensors, analytics and other technologies – which the Chinese in turn will seek to counter as quickly as they can.

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Keeping Forces Operationally Available With Ai-Enabled Predictive Maintenance

July 2021

A credible Pacific deterrence posture for the U.S. Navy requires that the fleet of ships, submarines, and aircraft be available to the combatant commander at a rate that outpaces potential adversaries, in order to maintain control of strategic geographic areas and vital supply chains. A new, AI-enabled approach to predictive maintenance can help achieve this goal, and increase operational availability across the INDOPACOM AOR and elsewhere.

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Keeping Navy Port Supply Operations Resilient In The Face Of Cyberattacks

June 2021

As large-scale cyberattacks by China and Russia on American government agencies and corporations have demonstrated, it can be difficult to prevent nation-states from planting malware on sensitive networks—even those with strict access controls. It can also be difficult to know that it has happened. Suspected Russian hackers in the SolarWinds supply-chain attack remained undetected on networks for as long as nine months before they were discovered.

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How Ai-Enabled Fusion Can Help Make Sense Of Conflicting Sensor Data

May 2021

In the coming years the Navy will gain access to a rapidly growing profusion of sensors, not just through new fleets of unmanned vehicles combined with existing systems, but through

multi-service sensors as well, as part of a joint operating environment. If the Navy is to maintain dominance in the INDOPACOM AOR, it must be able to extract maximum insight from those sensor assets.

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Can Training for the Navy’s Unmanned Systems Keep Pace With Change? How AR/VR Can Help.

January 2021

In the not-too-distant future, large unmanned Navy vehicles—both surface and undersea—may be regularly patrolling the waters of the South China Sea, equipped with sophisticated sensors, formidable weapon systems, and advanced analytics. As with any emerging military technology—particularly those with new, untested missions—much about how this will play out can’t be fully predicted.