Cyberspace Warfighting Capacity: Leveraging Small Business Capability Through Collaboration

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Cyberspace Warfighting CapacityLeveraging Small
Business Capability Through Collaboration

• Presentation to USAF IT-Day
• Sponsored by AFCEA NOVA
• Riley Repko, HQE, A3/5
• 10 Dec 2009

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(Mis)Perceptions of US Power Cyberspace

• Uncontested Conventional Military
• Unchallenged Reach and Power
• Financial Engine for the World
• We train the worlds best scientists
• Big business has all the answers
• Its all about the DIB!

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Cyber Collaboration-Why it matters?

• No formal acquisition process to leverage
  integrate operational capabilities from the
  cyberspace ownersprivate-sector Insights
  generated during discussions are lost
• Potential industry partners (that could help the
  most) are outside the mainstream and have little
  insight into what is needed how to bring their
  IP to bear within government
• Little visibility between cyberspace component
  contracts, requirements and program information
  Knowledge gained is not leveraged
• Lack of mechanism to easily share cyber-ops
  requirements with vendors and share information
  with AF decision bodyLack of requirements
  analysis
• Poor cross-community matching of AF DoD
  components to potential cyberspace vendorsPower
  of scale not leveraged
• No centralized, usable and searchable cyberspace
  repositoryNo fact base to ground analysis of
  solutions
• Universal risk creates shared vulnerabilities
  which demands shared investment response

Universal risk creates shared vulnerabilities
which demands shared investment response
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Rationale

• Current federal environment fraught with turf
  issues
• Boiling the ocean AQ-fixes titanium
  stove-pipes
• Intellectual thought, investment capability is
  much stronger from within the private
  sectorespecially with small businesses!
• Poor visibility to AF operational requirements,
  capabilities exchange SA between private
  public-sectors
• Great deal of strategic talktime to deliver
  options solutions!
• Need for new/non-traditional approach(s) to
  addressing this domain
• Need workable interface addressing small
  business abilities concerns
• Trust confidence, incentives,
  security-clearances, IP, COI, legal
  authoritative (Titles), regulations etc.

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Cyberspace Collaboration Framework
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Private-Sector Collaboration Accelerant
Framework
Industry-Academia-Labs/RD Worldwide
Federal Government
Intl
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Government Collaboration Accelerant Framework
White House, Capitol Hill National Level
Agencies

Board Of Advisors
Knowledge-Nodes
Execution Element
Requirements
Collaboration Mgmt. Center
Port of Entry

• Interface/Reach-back
• Feedback, Track, Implement
• Articulate Cyber Requirements
• Wizards Long-term Thinkers
• COP SA Repository
• Rapid Acquisition Requirements Review

CMC
SA Capabilities
WH, OMB, OSD, DNI, NSA, CIA, COCOMs, Fed
Agencies, NAFs, Mil. Services, DIB Members,
State/Local, Labs, Academia, SAB/DSB etc.
Capability Repository/Reach-back Intl Partners,
National Labs/Federal S/L Agencies, COCOMs
Govt Best Practices
Private Sector
Public Sector
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Framework Deliverables

• Expanded SA, outreach delivery private-public
  sector capabilities (people/processes/technology)
  
• Jump-start training support requirements
• Clarified vision/mission/strategy/competencies
  deliverables
• Non-traditional approach deliveryideal small
  business incentive leverage

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because the adversary is here
Thank you! Questions?
And we have only seconds to defeat him
Photo courtesy of Dr. Roger G. Miller, HAF/HO