Today’s weapons systems are vulnerable to hackers, who could potentially commandeer them with the right tools and skills.
The Navy is trying to address that risk with a new research solicitation. The risk not always to the weapons directly. The research solicitation addresses support systems that connect to the weapons intermittently, such as maintenance laptops and industrial control system interfaces.
Resource: Read the solicitation
“There is a paucity of cyber R&D and threat information for weapon systems and supporting systems that directly or indirectly connect to weapon systems,” the Navy noted.
The solicitation lists 34 areas of interest for securing platforms, weapons and support equipment, including malware detection, “non-destructive” cyber inspection and how to patch software for weapons that only connect to the network periodically.
