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Internet of Everything for Defense

OverviewThe Department of Defense (DoD) vision of network-centric warfare began in 1996 and included four elements:

• Networked forces with improved information sharing

• Information sharing and collaboration that enhance information quality and situational awareness

• Shared situational awareness that enables self-synchronization

• The combination of the other three elements to increase mission effectiveness

This vision is now becoming reality through the Internet of Everything (IoE).

CREATING THE MISSION FABRIC

The Network: The Platform for IoEIoE—the networked connection of people, process, data, and things—presents a tremendous opportunity for today’s military organizations. The secure convergence of mobility, security, cloud, and big data enables an integrated mission fabric and provides the power to connect the battlefield in ways that fundamentally change military operations.

As devices become more prolific, IoE will result in nearly 50 billion devices being connected by 2020. Those connections—including machine-to-machine and sensor communications—will exchange data to analyze, plan, manage, and make intelligent decisions autonomously, helping to keep our:

• Warfighters safer

• Campaigns more productive

• Intelligence more actionable

• Outcomes more decisive

This integration of machine with human communications, collaboration, and analytical elements enables real-time decision advantages and is crucial to bringing greater intelligence and security to our military. IoE incorporates physical objects, such as helmets, vehicles, weapons, and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), with secure networks to create an informational advantage and battlefield dominance. This keeps warfighters and decision makers connected to vital information needed to respond to ever-changing battlefield conditions.

Networked Connection of People, Process, Data, and Things

IoE

PeopleConnecting people in more

relevant, valuable ways.

DataConverting data into intelligence to make

better decisions.

ProcessDelivering the right information to the right person (or machine) at the right time.

ThingsPhysical devices and objects connected to the Internet and each other for intelligent decision making; often called Internet of Things (IoT).

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Connect the Battlefield with Real-Time IntelligenceToday’s missions require real-time and untethered interactions between soldiers, decision makers, subject matter experts, and machines. Unification of C4ISR systems, sensors, video, voice, data collaboration, and secure mobile computing is delivering transformational battlefield capabilities. By using Cisco® IoE technologies with big data analytics, trusted multilevel security capabilities, software-defined networking (SDN), and virtualization-aware network infrastructure, you can deliver a fully integrated mission fabric for the battlefield that monitors, plans for, and reacts to global threats as they emerge.

Cisco IoE architectures include:

• Compute, storage, and virtualization assets in the data center and operational technologies

• Fog computing nodes to extend IP to the tactical edge

• Comprehensive network security policies from the data center to the edge

• Cisco Intercloud Fabric for connectivity

• Voice- and video-enabled secure mobile infrastructures

• Battlefield ISR and wearable and remote sensors

Virtualization combined with advanced network and application-level security is essential to allowing highly secure access to sensitive and classified information on multiple networks while lowering the risk of vulnerabilities. Security measures are also top of mind to protect data for unclassified, classified, secret, or top secret networks. When properly architected and deployed, IoE will help to realize the vision of network-centric warfare while providing a superior technology advantage for our connected warfighters, analysts, and decision makers.

Sensors Bolster Safety on Front LinesUnification of battlefield data from sensors, UAVs, all-source intelligence, and secure mobile and wearable devices will provide soldiers with anytime, anywhere, unplanned global data access and collaboration. Additionally, wearable devices—including vital sign monitors and heat, radiation, and helmet impact sensors—will keep troops safe and reduce response times for lifesaving aid when needed.

Securing the Connected BattlefieldIncreasing the number of connections on the battlefield presents major opportunities and benefits, but there are also rising security concerns about unauthorized monitoring or even seizure and control of vital networks critical to military operations. As the multitude of connected sensors and devices increases and video surveillance and applications move to IP, the importance of physical and network security becomes even more apparent.

It is no longer sufficient to only protect data behind firewalls in protected IT environments. It is now necessary to extend protection all the way to the tactical edge in a new distributed computing environment known as the Fog. Everything must be secure, from information technologies to operational technologies, from end users to the Fog and the enterprise cloud. For organizations looking to unlock the potential of IoE while mitigating the risks associated with IoE deployments, the first step is to take a comprehensive look at securing the IoE technology ecosystem:

• Secure sensors and devices: When sensors and devices do not have adequate storage and computation for encryption, make sure the data is encrypted at the points of aggregation: the gateways and access points.

• Secure the Fog: The Fog, a new distributed computing layer with close coupling of sensors, devices, analytics, and end users, is enabling the evolving operational doctrine of distributed control. The Fog is often referred to as the Combat Cloud. The Combat Cloud must be secured to make sure of data integrity and protection throughout the data lifecycle. It delivers the ability to collect, aggregate, and manipulate data locally and can be connected to enterprise and cloud repositories for further analytics and use.

• Secure the data chain: Once secured, we must continue to maintain unbroken trust from the source of data at creation through the intelligent network and into data centers. We must also maintain security when data is distributed, replicated, and manipulated.

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Internet of Everything for Defense

The Connected Battlefield in ActionThe vision of a connected battlefield is becoming reality today. It starts with the connected warfighter in the field, who becomes a communications node that is capable of gathering and transmitting data from many sources back to analytics and command centers. Connected warfighters become a network extension. They are equipped with sensors, communications systems, navigation systems, battle management systems, head-borne systems, weapons, power sources, and mobility options. Simply stated, they are a personal network that is integral to the mission fabric, and they help maintain situational awareness with an accurate knowledge of the environment and real-time access to video and data.

By using analytic capabilities, leaders at multiple levels can monitor sensors, data, and other information to make decisions and direct missions in the field. Other integrated sensors and data collection points in the field provide real-time information and relay data through the cloud back to data centers, forward operating bases, and headquarters for analysis. Finally, secure voice and collaboration are hosted through the Fog and a private cloud between the field and leaders to make sure data is transmitted, processed, and applied in a timely and secure manner.

Beyond the Battlefield: Supply Chain and LogisticsIoE goes beyond tactical battlefield operations to encompass all aspects of successful military campaigns, including analysis, planning, provisioning, and execution. IoE can provide tremendous advantage in battlefield logistics by helping to make sure necessary items are delivered where they are needed and on time. For example, the Cisco IoE Connected Battlefield will be constantly aware of the level and need for critical

supplies such as ammunition, rations, water, and fuel. From sensors and actuators to distributed edge computing and advanced analytics, the effects of IoE are being felt as we bring previously standalone devices onto secure IP networks, thereby bringing the DoD’s vision of network-centric warfare and the Cisco Connected Battlefield to life.

IoE is also a critical component of successful military enterprise operations and readiness. Not all military operations occur on the battlefield, and operational budgets are tight. IoE can help to increase performance and manage operational costs by dramatically improving efficiencies and automation through capabilities including:

• Connected base solutions for converged LAN, industrial, and wireless networks

• Connected energy solutions for buildings, power distribution, energy metering, and optimization

• Connected fleet management

• Improved machine-to-machine communications for IT and logistics systems

IoE can also provide new sources of data that can assist with operations in the fifth domain beyond land, sea, air, and cyberspace.

Why Cisco?The future is here. From next-generation networks to industry-leading mobility, cloud, and video, Cisco provides the secure, integrated architectures that connect people, process, data, and things. The network is the universal enabler for global communications and collaboration. It is the platform that connects organizations and people, and it enhances mission effectiveness by helping them collaborate in modern and effective ways. Together with Cisco, the DoD can achieve the vision of network-centric warfare by creating an integrated mission fabric.

For more information, visit www.cisco.com/go/defense.

The Connected Battlefield in Action

HYBRID CLOUD

COCOMs

COMBAT CLOUD

Operational Technology

Enterprise Connected EdgeDeployed Operations

Data Center

Data Virtualization— Analytic Fusion

Fog Nodes

C2 and Sensor Integration

Secure Voice to Collaboration

WeaponsMobility Systems

Communications

Navigation System

Sensors

Information Technology

HQ

Secure Mission Fabric