Critical infrastructure cyber protection
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (DOD-ARMY): Modernizing operational technology to protect Army organic industrial bases
Challenge: The U.S. Army operates manufacturing arsenals, maintenance depots, and ammunition plants, known as Organic Industrial Bases (OIB). With 26 OIB locations operated by 28,000 employees and an estimated 500,000 devices, the bases represent a significant attack surface area. Any insecurities in the operational technology that support these OIB locations could pose grave national security risks, including disrupted production, destroyed equipment, injured workers, and impacted coordination with partner agencies.
Approach: With TMF support, Army is modernizing OIB operational technology to:
- Enable Attack Sensing and Warning and Vulnerability Assessment cyber capabilities
- Establish a Security Operations Center as a Service framework to ensure cyber defenders can monitor, respond to, and remediate cyber threats
- Investment start: 10/2022
- Project status: Active
- Transfer status: 100%
- Repayment status: 100%
- Schedule delay: No
- Cost overruns: No
- ARP funding: Yes
- Commercial product: No
- Total TMF investment amount: $15,575,246
- TMF spend to date (obligated): $15,575,246