The Autonomic Distributed Systems Division creates and deploys enabling technologies addressing critical national security shortfalls in the following areas:
- Computer network defense: autonomic defense of enterprise, tactical wireless, and embedded networks, including attack detection, response, recovery, inoculation, and forensics
- Computer network exploitation and attack: scalable, robust technologies enabling timely execution of CNE/CNA operations on behalf of CNO analysts/operators
- Autonomic/self-healing computing networks: protocols and architectures enabling mission-critical networks to achieve assured performance under extreme dynamic conditions
- Multi-agent systems: self-organizing networks of intelligent agents that maximize the timely and effective reach of analysts/operators, while minimizing manually intensive activities.
The Autonomic Distributed Systems Division provides computer network operations products and services to the intelligence and DoD communities that focus on offensive and defensive information operations. This division:
- Researches, develops and integrates autonomic distributed systems comprising automated monitoring, decision, and response technologies operating in complex dynamic environments that humans can not otherwise monitor and control
- Develops systems that use rigorous sensing, reasoning and control frameworks to deliver assured performance and mission control in these dynamic, uncertain environments
- Provide these solutions for a wide range of networks – enterprise, tactical wireless, and embedded (i.e., control)
