Rapid acquisition and fielding for information assurance and cyber security in the Navy

• Author: Rand Corporation
• VerfasserIn: Porche, Isaac, 1968-
• TeilnehmendeR: Rand Corporation
• Place / Publishing House: [Place of publication not identified] : RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Table of Contents

• Summary
• Approach
• Key findings and recommendations from the analysis xiii
• Acknowledgments
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Mitigating the cyber threat through rapid acquisition
• Study approach
• Organization of this report
• Testing (certification and accreditation) challenges, best practices
• And recommendations
• Testing in the new IT acquisition strategy
• Navy modernization process challenges, best practices, and
• Recommendations
• Challenges
• Recommendations
• Budgeting, funding, and contracts challenges, best practices, and
• Recommendations
• Challenges
• Recommendations
• Governance, integration and training, and emergent needs challenges
• Best practices, and recommendations
• Challenges
• Recommendations
• Summary and conclusions
• Future work
• Appendix A: Survey of RAPID acquisition processes
• Appendix B: Navy RAPID acquisition options
• Appendix C: Case studies of successful RAPID/IT acquisition
• Navy case study: A-RCI
• Army case study: DRRS-A
• Marine Corps case study: Commercial hunter
• Appendix D: JCIDS and incremental acquisition background information
• Exceptions to JCIDS
• Description of "IT box"
• Appendix E: review of cyber and IT acquisition literature
• Legislation
• National research council report
• Defense Science Board report
• Other reports
• Appendix f: Air Force cyber acquisition
• Appendix G: Worms
• Worm attacks are an increasing problem
• Worm attacks require fast and frequent responses.