2017 MILCOM

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Restricted Technical Panel: Cyberspace Command and Control (Cyber C2) (Room 302)

Cyberspace Command and Control (Cyber C2) consists of the Situational Awareness (Cyber SA) and Cyber Force Employment (Cyber FE) needed to enable cyber effects across all global commons (Air, Land, Sea, Space, and Cyberspace) during the conduct of cyber, kinetic, and integrated cyber-kinetic operations. Considering Cyber C2 through the lens of the Observe/Orient/Decide/Act (OODA) framework reveals that Cyber SA is the Observe/Orient component and as such it constitutes Battlespace Awareness for the Cyber Domain. Cyber SA informs planning and force application at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels throughout the spectrum of conflict and Joint decision superiority depends on understanding the status and activities of friendly, hostile, and neutral systems and actors across all global commons. Cyber SA capabilities built with this in mind enable operators and commanders to realize this understanding through collection, visualization, analysis, and sharing of relevant information. Cyber SA is a highly complex capability area enabled by people, processes, and technologies performing vastly different missions across the department. The bulk of existing Cyber SA capabilities consist of network awareness technologies but current doctrinal efforts identify the need for holistically tying network SA to threat and mission as a prerequisite to building a cyber picture that reinforces kinetic operations.  
Developing concepts for tying the Battlespace Awareness of cyber activity to kinetic operations in an operationally significant and timely way is the focus of this paper. Our intent is to discuss the enhancement of  collaboration and synchronization of ongoing Cyber SA activities in the Joint, Service, and Agency communities and facilitate the means for cyber operator and developer requirements governance and engagement with the DoD SA ecosystem.