Space Resilience – Safeguarding U.S. Assets Resilience is the
ability of an architecture to support the functions necessary for
mission success in spite of hostile action or adverse conditions.
An architecture that is more resilient can provide these functions
with higher probability, shorter periods of reduced capability, and
across a wider range of scenarios, conditions, and threats.
Resilience may leverage cross-domain or alternative government,
commercial, or international capabilities.
According to the Department of Defense, resilience encompasses
avoidance, robustness, reconstitution, and recovery:
• Avoidance: countermeasures against potential adversaries
• Robustness: architecture properties and design features to
enhance survivability and resist functional degradation
• Reconstitution: plans and operations to re-establish full
operational capability and capacity for the full range of missions,
operations, or contingencies
Why is Resilience Important? Today, the U.S. is more reliant on
space capabilities than ever before, at the heart of every aspect
of our civilian, military and intelligence infrastructures. The
areas impacted by space include navigation, communications, command
and control, surveillance, television, weather, and support to
first responders, to name a few. Hostile states are very much aware
of this reliance.
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Space Resilience
C Y B E R S P A C E T H R E A T S A T T A C K I N G C O M M A N D A
N D C O N T R O L A N D D A T A D I S T R I B U T I O N N E T W O R
K S D I R E C T LY A G A I N S T S P A C E S Y S T E M S , A S S O
C I A T E D G R O U N D I N F R A S T R U C T U R E S , U S E R S ,
A N D T H E L I N K S C O N N E C T I N G T H E M .
D I R E C T E D E N E R G Y W E A P O N S L A S E R S , H I G H P O
W E R E D M I C R O W A V E S , A N D R A D I O F R E Q U E N C Y W
E A P O N S T E M P O R A R I LY ( D A Z Z L I N G ) O R P E R M A
N E N T LY D A M A G E S Y S T E M S
E L E C T R O N I C W A R F A R E J A M M I N G ( U P L I N K S A N
D D O W N L I N K S ) A N D S P O O F I N G ( I N J E C T I N G F A
K E S I G N A L S ) T E C H N I Q U E S
K I N E T I C E N E R G Y T H R E A T S A N T I - S A T E L L I T E
( A S A T ) M I S S I L E S
O R B I T A L T H R E A T S D E B R I S , O T H E R S A T E L L I T
E S E M P L O Y I N G M I C R O W A V E S , R F J A M M E R S , L A
S E R S , C H E M I C A L S P R AY E R S , K I N E T I C K I L L V
E H I C L E S , O R R O B O T I C M E C H A N I S M S
LEARN MORE Joe Mazur, Executive Director NRO Account | (703)
375-6048 |
[email protected] Scott Scherbenske, Vice
President | (703) 961-2525 |
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Space is a hostile and unforgiving environment with looming
adversaries, extreme temperature fluctuations, complex radiation
requirements, unpredictable solar flares and an increasing amount
of flying debris. All of these events and more threaten to wipe out
vital national capabilities in an instant. Satellites and their
architectures, including supporting ground infrastructure, must be
resilient to ensure operational systems are available for the
warfighter and other commercial space users.
ManTech’s Role in the Space Resilience Domain Our work encompasses
three main areas:
1. Cyber operations and defense: Expansion of our existing
full-spectrum cyber operations capabilities to include the
utilization of our Advanced Cyber Range Environment (ACRE) in
support of protecting the space architecture against cyber threats
– this includes not only the space systems themselves, but also the
ground infrastructures, the users, and the links between them.
Further, we are expanding into the counter-space domain through
research and development of cyber kill-chain tools, tactics, and
strategies.
2. Data Analytics and Analysis for space situational awareness and
space object surveillance and identification (SOSI) and analyses of
the entire space architectures for vulnerabilities. We collect and
utilize data to thwart a critical event before it occurs. We
analyze data to determine the true cause of critical events, for
example, whether it is environmental, accidental, or
intentional.
