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Autonomous
Coordination Lab
Craig
Martell (CS), Director
- Study of mobile robotic systems that self-organize
into coordinated networks to accomplish tasks
- Examples:
- Autonomous mine sweeping of a beach
- Flocking UAVs
- Multiple terrain AVs divide work dictated
by goal given during last communication
- New start 2005
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Center
for Excellence in Information Operations
John
Arquilla (DA), Director
Electronic warfare, computer network operations,
psychological warfare, deception, operations security
- Setting up IO curriculum, library, journal,
research program
- Classified study for DEPSECDEF on deception
operations versus terror networks
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The Center for Information Systems Security Studies and Research
Cynthia
Irvine (CS), Director
Security architectures and engineering, multilevel
security, cyber-defense, PKI, QoSS, high assurance,
security tools
- Scholarship for Service Program (SFS)
- Initial version of CyberCIEGE, a video game
to teach cybersecurity methods
- Multilevel security test bed
- Preliminary draft of Separation Kernel Protection
Profile
- First phase of High Assurance Rapid Development
Environment (HARDE) for the Trusted Computing
Exemplar project
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Center
for Mobile Devices and Communications
Gurminder
Singh (CS), Director
Secure, self-configuring mobile networks, intermittent
communications, battle PDAs
- Device-Aware networks
- Tactical Remote Sensing System (TRSS) including
Tactical Network Topology (TNT) field experiments
- Detection of suspicious behavior in a sensor
field
- Sensor networking for surveillance in collaboration
with COASTS (Coalition Operating Area Surveillance
and Targeting System)
- Network Infrastructure for First Responders
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Center
for Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
David
Tucker (DA), Glenn
Robinson (DA), Co-Directors
Operation and policy analysis of domestic and
international terrorism, infrastructure threats.
- Man hunting (for Special Operations Command)
- Classified support to 1st Marine Expeditionary
Force intel teams versus Iraqi insurgents
- Chapter on developing new military tactics
for fighting networks
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Cryptologic
Research Center
Clark
Robertson (ECE), Director
Cryptologic methods of communication and coordination,
cyber signals intelligence
- Wireless test bed, cognitive radio and component
design on FPGAs.
- NSA/NPS Vulnerability Assessment Program (NVAP)
- Prototype system and a computer simulation
for a mobile ad hoc Sensor Network for surveillance
and interoperability
- Performance of adaptive communication links
- Direct sequence-frequency hopping
- Signal detection, jamming and propagation
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Hastily
Formed Networks Project: Humanitarian Assistance
and Disaster Relief
Brian
Steckler (IS), Project Director
- Nemesis mobile communication vehicle
- Deployed hastily-formed mobile networks
- Thailand after tsunami
- Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina
- Cooperating with Homeland Security Center
on paradigms of communication and coordination
in HFNs
- Field lab for W2COG
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Hastily
Formed Networks Project: Improvisation
Frank
Barrett (BPP), Project Leader
- How do people act in turbulent environments,
when they have to make fast, irreversible decision?
When they are uncertain about other’s
actions?
- Skill of improvisation important
- Teaching the skill through summit workshops
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Hastily
Formed Networks Project: Operational
Analyses
Don
Gaver (OR), Project Leader
- Understanding resource dynamic allocation
for complex military, civilian, humanitarian
and recovery missions within HFNs
- Recent results:
- Dynamic adaptive epidemic models for peer-to-peer
network access
- Kill chain for time sensitive strike
- Stochastic properties of peer-to-peer
communication architecture in a military
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Hastily
Formed Networks Project: Real
Options
Tom
Housel (IS)
- Capabilities based planning
- Identifying how to effectively deploy collaborative
IT technologies to support HFNs;
- Identify and prescribe the antecedent factors
that enable the effective use of collaborative
IT technologies in HFNs;
- Understand the role of collaborative IT competence
in complex, data-rich, and information-intensive
environments
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Hastily
Formed Networks Project: Swift
Trust
Roxanne
Zolin (GSBPP)
- The objective of this study is to develop
and validate measures for the antecedents to
swift trust and the impact of swift trust upon
unit performance.
- While individual services quickly form teams
and work collaboratively to achieve their mission,
Joint and international temporary teams are
not always so successful in developing swift
trust, possibly due to differences in culture,
goals, experiences and stereotypes.
- Study student teams composed of all services
and international students as they form teams
in their first class at NPS.
- Mapping social networks of trust, measuring
stereotypes of the services and international
cultures and conducting interviews to detect
trust issues during team projects.
- Results will be used to develop measure of
Swift Trust.
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Innovation
Peter
Denning (CS)
Educational programs teaching practices of innovation,
transformation, strategy and philosophy.
- Designed CS4900, an NPS course on personal
foundational practices of innovation, which
are at the basis of a culture of innovation
( there are 7 foundational practice and an 8th
more advanced practice)
- Plan to expand into a Cebrowski Institute
course for interested NPS students.
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Transformation
Sue
Higgins (IS)
Educational programs teaching practices of innovation,
transformation, strategy and philosophy.
- Acting Transformation Chair
- Developing NCO educational materials with
other DoD academic institutions
- The NPS Transformation Chair is a member of
a network with nodes at each of the DoD academic
institutions. The Chairs' network is focused
on creation and diffusion of knowledge related
to the education of information age leaders
in DoD.
- Sponsor: Office
of Secretary of Defense, Force Transformation
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W2COG:
World Wide Consortium for the Grid
Peter
Denning (CS), Chris
Gunderson (IS)
Institute and open consortium for accelerating
fielding of network enabling capability.
- Consortium of network centric operations experts
to demonstrate technologies and methodologies
for rapid insertion on the GIG.
- Expert operators, engineers, program managers
drawn from government, industry and academia.
- NPS research project. Sponsors OFT, ASD NII,
USD (AS&C), DARPA, SPAWAR
- Handed off to 501©(3) public service
organization, W2COG Institute of which we are
a charter member
- Strategic partnership with industry consortia,
e.g. NCOIC
- Follow on project is Netcentric Certification
Office for Joint Interoperability Test Center.
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