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Modeling of Cyber Behaviors to Wargame and Assess Risk (MOC-WAR)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
Contract: N00014-15-C-0115
Agency Tracking Number: N2-4853
Amount: $375,000.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: N132-132
Solicitation Number: 2013.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2013
Award Year: 2015
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2015-04-23
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2016-10-22
Small Business Information
625 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
DUNS: 000000000
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Peter Weyhrauch
 Principal Scientist
 (617) 491-3474
 pweyhrauch@cra.com
Business Contact
 Mr. Mark Felix
Title: program manager
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: contracts@cra.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Adversaries are launching increasingly proficient cyber attacks against our militarys infrastructure. While the Navy has focused significant resources on cyber defense, current defense tools are largely reactive in nature, addressing events after the initial attack. Augmenting our cyber defense with proactive tools to analyze the goals and decision-making processes of adversaries will enable cyber defenders to shape the battlespace, thereby limiting and even driving adversary options, and reducing the threat on our military infrastructure. To do this, cyber defenders need to understand the motivations, goals, behaviors, and limitations of those adversaries, and how those factors interact with policies, users, and defenses. To address these needs, in Phase I we designed and demonstrated a system for Modeling Cyber Behaviors to Wargame and Assess Risk (MOC-WAR). MOC-WAR provides a hybrid, modular Behavior Modeling Framework to construct flexible adversary, defender and user models that can be rapidly updated as adversary strategies evolve. Using these models, MOC-WAR provides simulation engines and analysis tools that allow analysts and defenders to wargame behavioral interactions with adversaries, and proactively select policies and defenses that minimize adversary threats. Based on our Phase I success, we recommend a Phase II effort to develop and evaluate a full-scope MOC-WAR system.

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