Cyber Resilient Weapon Systems Body of Knowledge (CRWS-BoK) Portal

Event Recording

Description:

The Resilient Systems (RS) directorate in the Strategic Technology Protection and Exploitation Office, under the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, launched the Cyber Resilient Weapons Systems Body of Knowledge (CRWS-BoK) Portal on May 6, 2021. The RS directorate, under the leadership of Director Melinda Reed, continues to guide portal updates and has worked closely with users to solicit feedback and implement improvements through the release of several version iterations since the initial version launch, with the most recent update on February 9, 2022.

The CRWS-BoK provides a comprehensive repository of publicly available authoritative guidance and knowledge to assist the workforce in the engineering of CRWS. Users (i.e., engineers, science and technology managers, and researchers from across the DoD, Federal Government, industry, and academia) can access, search, annotate, save, and share crucial engineering information needed to develop, maintain, and monitor secure CRWS programs.

The primary features of the CRWS-BoK include:      

• A comprehensive, continuously updating repository of curated engineering information to provide users a credible, validated, high quality repository of specialized knowledge

• A powerful viewing environment that enables users to efficiently and easily access, search, annotate, save, and share the engineering information they need for both individual and collaborative purposes

In addition to focusing on formulating policy, standards and best practices to ensure DoD systems are resilient in the face of advanced cyber threats, the RS directorate also partners with science and technology (S&T) professionals to foster assured resilient missions, systems, and components. It leverages best practices and cultivates innovation that enables the Nation's S&T workforce to engineer CRWS that can successfully operate in the face of persistent cyber threats.

In this webinar, Mr. Burhan Adam, Resilient Systems Director for Policy, Guidance, and Standards, Ms. Angela Lungu, and Ms. Madison Rudy, project lead and project lead analyst, respectively, will discuss the CRWS-BoK Portal and provide an overview of its capabilities and key features. The CRWS-BoK Portal is designed to provide up-to-date, publicly accessible CRWS resources that are directly accessible to users via a web browser. It also provides a user-friendly, searchable interface and opportunities to provide direct feedback, including the nomination of additional CRWS resources, to RS. 

Speakers:

Mr. Burhan Adam; Director, Resilient Systems Policy, Guidance and Standards

Mr. Burhan Y. Adam is the Director for Resilient Systems Policy, Guidance and Standards in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) Office of Strategic Technology Protection and Exploitation (STP&E). He establishes policy and guidance to transition technology area protection planning tools, methods, and activities to program protection policy, tools, and methods in support of horizontal protection needs. He leads the Secure Resilient Cyber Engineering (SRCA) standards area under the Defense Standardization Program. He is responsible for overseeing technology protection, technical information, program protection, supply chain, cyber resilient weapons systems and system security engineering policy, guidance, acquisition regulations, standards, education and training, as well as engineering methods, tools and techniques.

Ms. Angela Lungu; Contract Support for Resilient Systems Policy, Guidance and Standards

Ms. Angela Lungu provides contractor support for Resilient Systems Policy, Guidance, and Standards in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) Office of Strategic Technology Protection and Exploitation (STP&E). Ms. Lungu is the Project Lead for the Cyber Resilient Weapon Systems Body of Knowledge (CRWS-BoK), which she has been leading since April 2020.

Ms. Madison Rudy; Contract Support for Resilient Systems Policy, Guidance and Standards

Ms. Madison Rudy provides contractor support for Resilient Systems Policy, Guidance, and Standards in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)) Office of Strategic Technology Protection and Exploitation (STP&E). She is the Lead Analyst for the Cyber Resilient Weapon Systems Body of Knowledge (CRWS-BoK) and has been with the project since June 2019 as well as serving as a project intern in 2017.

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