Mission Information Resilience and Provisioning

As the Air Force seeks to transition operations to the combat cloud and achieve a distributed execution environment, there is critical need to provision missions with secure Information Resilience (IR) that enables C2 of assets operating in degraded, intermittent, and low-bandwidth (DIL) environments. Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) provides data resiliency through peer-to-peer logging and information tracking, forming a secure decentralized database managed by ledger participants with no centralized authority. While DLT continues to grow in areas such as Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance, current implementations are not equipped to address Air Force needs to assure C2 in DIL environments. Securboration, teaming with commercial DLT experts Consult Hyperion (CHYP), designed a DLT-based solution called PRIM – (Provisioning Resilience through Informational-Value Metadata) in Phase I. We identified the major challenges in DIL-affected combat cloud operations and formulated a set of functional requirements and architecture that we will implement in Phase II. The goal is to determine if DLT is viable to (1) operate in the background, adding C2 messages to the ledger while communications are not compromised, and (2) reconstitute the latest received C2 messages as an asset encounters DIL communications and use them to support the C2 Chain of Command.