Automated Cyber Protection and Electronic Health Monitoring from a Small Lightweight Sensor for Space

Cyber-attacks in the commercial and defense industries continue to grow in sophistication and intensity, outpacing the capabilities of cyber defense.  Nokomis’ RF sensor technology exploits unintended electromagnetic emissions from electronic devices that are the target of cyber-attacks.  These unintended emissions can be leveraged to provide a rapid alert of a cyber-attacks and indications of other electronic health vulnerabilities that will affect the platforms performance.  This effort will combine Nokomis’ mature Hiawatha System and Embedded Avionics Protection System (EmAPS) capabilities into Embedded Platform Protection Sensor (EPPS) system for monitoring both radiated and conducted emissions within complex electronic systems.  Nokomis technology is the most sensitive RF sensor on the commercial marketplace – achieving a -170 dBm RF sensitivity at room temperature.  Nokomis intends to embed this sensor in the system or platform to observe and ultimately determine if a cyber event or electronic malfunction has occurred. This capability will provide a game-changing countermeasure to the ever-evolving sophistication of cyber-attacks and provide assurance that critical electronic components are at their highest level of mission readiness.  The scope of this effort is to design, build, and test a prototype EPPS system for protecting critical Air Force and Space and Missile System Center (SMC) platforms against cyber-attacks.  Nokomis will engage with Air Force and SMC stakeholders to establish the system’s operational requirements and design the EPPS hardware and software.