Battlefield Information Warfare via Distributed Artificial Intelligence

All modern military and commercial organizations rely heavily upon information processed with networked computers. In the commercial world, protection of this information from electronic espionage has become essential. In the military environment, information defense, exploitation, and attack are becoming important components of warfare. There is a national need to come to terms with Information Warfare (IW) by developing advanced battlefield technology that can be used both for protecting and attacking information. ORINCON and Kaman Sciences Corporation propose the development of an Information Warfare system that combines Distributed Intelligent Agents (DIAs) with the leading intrusion detection tool, Ice-Pick. The system, called Multi-Agent Information Vulnerability Exploitation System (MAIVES), uses Ice-Pick's ability to identify vulnerabilities and distributes network penetrations using ORINCON's DIA technology. MAIVES will permit distributed, coordinated attacks on network systems as well as assessment of vulnerabilities and planning of defensive tactics at multiple levels of information flow for the links and processing nodes of C4I and similar tactical broadcast systems. MAIVES facilitates continuing upgrades as new vulnerabilities and new systems are encountered. In addition, it will accept products and data obtained by other information system sources (spin-on), thus keeping current as new information becomes available. This powerful system provides tremendous potential for spin-off to other sectors, including commercial and other government.