DoW, in partnership with homeland security stakeholders, seeks SBIR project opportunities for STRIKE AI, an AI-enabled mission planning system designed to automate the planning and synchronization of effects to defend Operational Technology (OT) infrastructure. This system will function as a rapid response planning tool, ingesting high-level commander's intent (e.g., "Ensure integrity of the regional power grid") and rapidly generating executable, deconflicted response plans for both cyber and physical assets. The proposed solution is a holistic, AI-driven planning engine that can reason across multiple domains (cyber, physical, intelligence) and orchestrate complex response operations at machine speed. Specific areas of interest for this framework include: • Commander's Intent Interpretation: Processing high-level defensive objectives and translating them into specific tasks for cyber protection teams, law enforcement, and military response units. • Modeling OT Environments and Assets: Maintaining a comprehensive model of friendly defensive assets (e.g., CISA incident response teams, National Guard cyber units, physical security teams) and a detailed model of the targeted OT environment, including its specific controllers (PLCs, RTUs), network topology, and known vulnerabilities. • Threat Analysis: Ingesting intelligence data from multiple sources to model adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) against critical infrastructure. • Automated Response Plan Generation: Utilizing advanced algorithms to generate, deconflict, and sequence defensive actions (e.g., network segmentation, honeypot deployment) and offensive responses (e.g., counter-cyber operations, interdiction of physical threats) to neutralize threats while minimizing collateral damage and service disruption. • Human-on-the-Loop Oversight: Presenting generated response plans in an intuitive format for human commanders (e.g., at USNORTHCOM, CISA) to review, modify, and approve before execution.
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