Cyber Knowledge Management with Secure Information Transfer for Weapons Systems (CKURITY)

Securing our nations weapon systems is essential to the success of our military. In recent years, cyber securing these systems has become a dire need and priority for the Department of Defense (DoD). This need poses many challenges including (i) securely storing weapon system cyber knowledge, (ii) maintaining vulnerability and risk assessment consistency across number DoD organizations, (iii) preventing vulnerability assessment duplication, (iv) sharing vulnerability assessment results for common components with need-to-know and least privilege considerations, and (v) alerting organizations and individuals when knew cyber knowledge is discovered for system of interest. In order to address these challenges, Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI), along with our partners at George Mason University (GMU)’s Center for Secure Information Systems (CSIS), propose to design, development, and implement a Cyber Knowledge Management with Secure Information Transfer for Weapons Systems (CKURITY) system. CKURITY provides weapon system program offices, along with cyber vulnerability experts and testers, with many capabilities including: (i) weapon system cyber information representation and storage, (ii) cross-domain controlled cyber knowledge sharing with provenance, (iii) vulnerability inferencing across weapon systems and components, and (iv) cyber knowledge update notifications.