Budget Account
1810N - Other Procurement, Navy
Budget Activity
02 - Communications and electronics equipment
Description
The Information Systems Security Program (ISSP) is a vital initiative by the Navy to protect its cyberspace systems from potential exploitation and attacks. This program covers various systems, including wired and wireless telecommunications, cybersecurity systems, and the content processed, stored, or transmitted within these systems. The main goal of ISSP is to safeguard the Navy's National Security Systems (NSS) by ensuring essential information trust characteristics such as availability, confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and non-repudiation.
A significant part of the ISSP is the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), which provides a secure framework for generating, managing, and delivering digital certificates for secure electronic transactions. This includes hardware certificate-based two-way authentication to networks and applications. The PKI equipment comprises Navy Certificate Validation Infrastructure (NCVI) and hardware token product end items.
Another important element is the Navy Cyber Situational Awareness (NCSA), which offers commanders timely and comprehensive situational awareness of the cyberspace domain through data correlation from multiple sources. This capability enables early threat detection and informed decision-making.
The Computer Network Defense (CND) initiative within ISSP focuses on protecting Navy networks against cyber threats. CND provides host-based protection tools, system vulnerability tools, cyber remediation tools, and other related security measures to detect, monitor, protect against, analyze, and defend against network infiltrations.
Additionally, the Navy Cryptography program modernizes legacy cryptographic equipment to meet National Security Agency (NSA) mandated encryption standards. This involves upgrading communications security devices to ensure they remain effective against evolving threats.
SHARKCAGE enhances Defensive Cyberspace Operations (DCO) by providing a global federated enclave consisting of sensor nodes and analytic workbenches that consolidate cyber event data from multiple platforms. It supports integrated workflow collaboration and analysis to efficiently detect and analyze cyber-attacks against maritime data. The program also includes Key Management (KM) initiatives that focus on secure key distribution and management across various platforms to ensure cryptographic integrity throughout the Navy's operations.