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Davy M. Belk, PhD, SES

Director, Information Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory

Davy M. Belk, PhD, SES

Director, Information Directorate

Air Force Research Laboratory

Meeting the Cyber Needs

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Action

Knowledge

Information

Data

Sensing

Information Directorate Core Technical Competency Portfolio

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Advanced Computing Architectures

Our seven core technical competencies… Command and Control, Information Management, Information Exploitation, Cyber Operations,

Information Fusion & Understanding, Connectivity, and Advanced Computing Architectures provide technologies to translate sensed data to

actionable knowledge.

RI Programs are organized and planned by CTC

DOMAINSAir • Cyberspace • Space

Command and Control

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AFRL’s Information DirectorateMission-Based Cyber Defense

AVOID

DEFEAT

SURVIVE

RECOVER

• Avoid most attacks• Ability to fight through unavoidable

attacks and bugs in “mission time”• Assure mission essential functions

(MEF)

• Analyze, understand, defeat, and recover from unavoidable attacks

• Provide continuity of operations from mission-to-mission

• Assure long-term objectives

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Acquisition Approach

Stand up initial capability Incorporate RTC #1Incorporate RC #2

Incorporate RTC #3Incorporate RTC #4

Baseline 0(~12 mo cycle)

Baseline 1(~12 mo cycle)

Baseline 2(~12 mo cycle)

RT Capability #1Rapid Capability #2

RT Capability #3RT Capability #4

Rapid Capability #5Rapid Capability #6

User Priorities User Priorities User Priorities

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Cyber Agile Acq Construct

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Centrally Managed Architecture

Emerging Technical Capability

tResponse to Urgent Needs

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AF/SDC & NIST/FDCC

Server FirewallE-mail Router

Large quantitySingle configuration

Moderate quantityIndustry Std configurations

Small quantityUnique configurations

Variable quantitiesVariable configurations

C2TST Log Space

Strat

Embedded

Custom App/Sys

Custom COTS

COTS

“Tip of the Spear”

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