Presented to:
HAMA
AMRDEC
SED Overview
Approved for public release;
Distribution unlimited
Presented by:
William Craig
14 June 2013
Director
Software Engineering Directorate
U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research,
Development, and Engineering Center
Outline
AMRDEC SED Overview
Contract Data
Areas of Business Opportunity
Cyber Security
Obsolescence
Mobile Application Development
3D Printing
Foreign Military Sales
Conclusion
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SED Quad Chart
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Current AMCOM EXPRESS Contracts
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Contract
Award Type
Ceiling
Period of
Performance
Prime
SCRS
Full & Open
$820M
Feb 12 – Feb 15
SAIC
BASES
Small Business
$172M
Aug 10 – Aug 15
IRTC
Lower Tier IV&V
Small Business
$78.8M
Aug 10 – Aug 15
Radiance
Systems &
Software Security
Engineering
Small Business
$62.7M
Nov 11 – Oct 15
COLSA
JSIL Tech Services
Full & Open
$194M
Sep 12 – Sep 17
AMS
IUID Support
Small Business
$57M
Oct 12 – Dec 17
Avion
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Planned AMCOM EXPRESS
Contracts
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Contract
Award Type
Estimated
Ceiling
Estimated
Award Date
Systems/Software
Technology
Analysis
Small Business
$60M
FY14
Fielded Systems
Support
Small Business
$100M
FY 14
Non Tactical
Software
Applications
Small Business
$125M
FY 14
SED Programmatic
Support
Small Business
$45M
FY 14
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Cyber Security
How much information?
Study conducted by the global information industry center at the University of California,
San Diego.
Study looked at only the amount of information U.S. residents consumed in the their
homes and outside the home for non-work-related reasons.
Study found that the average American spent about 12 hours digesting 34 Gigabytes (one
byte of information is equivalent to one letter of text) of information daily in 2008.
"Considering that on average we work for almost three hours a day [at home] and sleep for seven, this means
that three quarters of our waking time in the home is receiving information, much of it electronic," the authors
write.
Yearly, the American info habit consumes 3.6 zettabytes,
or 3.6 billion trillion bytes.
To put that in perspective, if 3.6 zettabytes of text were
printed in books and stacked tightly across the continental
United States and Alaska, it would create a pile 7-feet high
(2 meters).
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Obsolescence
Significant Issue for Aging Army Systems
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Many fielded Army systems are struggling with obsolescence issues.
In some cases the cost and lead-time for the parts are extreme. There
are many opportunities to re-design these obsolete parts with more
modern, available, and less expensive components. In many cases
the cost and lead-times can be reduced by >50% using modern
technologies and in some cases COTS.
In many cases there is a lack of use rights that excludes competition
The obsolescence-related business opportunities are not limited to US
Army systems. Many foreign militaries rely on US Army systems;
some still in US Army inventory and others that are no longer in the
US Army inventory. These countries are interested in solutions for
obsolete parts as well. In most cases these customers are interested
in small quantities (less than 100).
Older weapon systems use out dated technologies, system
requirements, and system designs
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Mobile Application Development
SED Mobile Applications
• 9 mobile programs
• Over 30 mobile apps in
development
• Mobile Apps Categories
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Aviation Control Simulation Apps
Outreach Apps
Aircraft Trainer Apps
Geographical Surveillance Apps
Augmented Reality Apps
Weapon Simulator Apps
Tactical Camera Apps
Missile Simulation Apps
Soldier Instrument Training Apps
Business Apps
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3D Printing
Entered the mainstream marketplace in 2007
Sales have grown by 7.2 Percent each year
Sales are projected to jump from about $1.7 Billion in
2011 to $3.7 Billion 2015
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Army Foreign Military Sales
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FY2003 – FY2006
$18+B
FY2007 – FY2010
$63.5B
FY2009
$24.2B
FY2011
$12B
FY2012
$19.6B (144 Different Nations)
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Conclusion
There is business for those
who are innovative and provide
customer value.
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Back up
Charts
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Cyber Security
• In developed countries information technology is vital and pervasive
• Such dependence has a corresponding vulnerability
• Cyber Security activities are absolutely essential (Military, Industry, Personal Lives)
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Cyber Security
Strategic Pillars
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Cyber Security
Strategic Partnerships
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Cyber Security
Nation States
Cyber Strength Assessment
• Nation State Assessment By Richard Clarke (Former National Coordinator For
Security, Infrastructure Protection, And Counterterrorism For President Clinton):
Overall Cyber War Strength
Nation
U.S.
Russia
China
Iran
North Korea
Cyber
Offense
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5
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2
Cyber
Dependence
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5
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5
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Cyber
Defense
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4
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3
7
Total
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• A Realistic Measurement Of Cyber War Strength Must Include All Three Factors
• The Less Wired A Nation Is, The Higher Its Score On Dependence
• Cyber Dependence Is A Disadvantage In A Cyber War
Open Source:
Cyber War by Richard A. Clarke, pp. 147-149
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“The U.S. economy and government are the most dependent in the world
on the Internet and therefore the most vulnerable to cyber attacks.”
- GAO-11-75 DoD Cyber Efforts, p. 1
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Cyber Security
Cyber Huntsville
• Chair Of Federal/State/Local Gov’t Cyber
Working Group
• First Gov’t Cyber WG Meeting 24 May 2012
• Gov’t Liaison For Cyber Huntsville BoD
• Invitees Include:
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• ALARNG
• Huntsville Utilities
• PEO MS
• AMC G6/G2
• Inspector General
• RTC
• AMCOM
• LOGSA
• SMDC
• AMRDEC CIO
• MDA
• TSMO
• Army G2X
• MSIC
• TVA
• City of Huntsville
• NASA
• DHS
• NEC-R
• FBI
• PEO Aviation
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Obsolescence
Obsolescence Challenges
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Affects the system
– Requirements, Software, Hardware, …
In many cases the Government does not own the drawing package from
the OEM or does not have the complete TDP
– Restricted technical data packages prevent fair and open competition
– Data rights for the OEM part when software is involved
Ability to pass functional tests using legacy test equipment that tests tight
tolerances
– Test equipment can have proprietary claims too
Government specification changes (relax requirements?)
Keeping production/manufacturing costs low for small quantities
Outsourcing of the semiconductor industry
Source code was developed without regard to the past 20 years modern
software engineering processes
Outdated design and system architectures
– Semiconductor industry moves in 3 to 4 year cycles when evolving
technologies
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Obsolescence
Obsolescence Mitigation
Best Practices/Considerations
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Ensure full and open rights of technical data packages
Use best of industry system engineering guidelines
– Reconsider the original system/component requirements to allow
“wiggle room” for modern solutions
– Architectures that encapsulate and modularize
– Common design components
Use modern technologies to reduce material component count
– FPGAs to replace complete obsolete designs
Teaming opportunities between industry and government
– Development
– Small quantity production
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Mobile Application Development
Why Mobile Applications?
• Average age across all 5
branches of the military is at or
below 30.
• June 2012 – DOD Mobile Strategy
– Develop Mobile and Web Apps
– Improve Infrastructure
– Implement mobile device
management system
• Rapid Application Prototyping
– Apps are smaller pieces of larger
applications
– Quick to prototype.
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Mobile Apps Development
Challenges
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Mobile Device (e.g. iPad) Operating System changes annually
– Information Assurance (IA) issue
– Air Worthiness Release (AWR) issue
Pilots will want to run their military applications on their personal (i.e.
non-secure) devices; must protect sensitive aircraft performance
related data
– IA issue
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