Focus Areas

Global Information Network

• Bring the net-centric vision to reality in tactical information networks
• Achieve selected performance objectives for information access using a unified systems approach that considers transport, data strategies, services, IA, and applications

Information Assurance

• Put high-assurance computing platforms into the hands of operational users
• Create tools and techniques for the quantitative analysis of IA alternatives

Intelligence Systems

• Create technology and system concepts to enable creation of an end-to-end Identification, Tagging, Tracking, and Locating (ID/TTL) system
• Make advances in systems architecting leading to new, integrated, rapidly adaptable intelligence systems

Information Operations

• Provide tools and techniques for access to denied information networks
• Create tools and techniques for the systematic application of computer network attack to achieve predictable effects on denied networks