CIPHER – Intelligent PED for the Internet of Military Things

CIPHER is an event-driven, multi-domain architecture operating across NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICS. Ingested data is immediately tagged, enriched, and brokered via a dynamic orchestrator and Credence’s MOSAIC data fabric, which autonomously governs and optimizes flows across enclaves. The fabric replaces brittle pipelines and manual integration by using AI agents that adapt to new sources, schema changes, and mission context in real time. From this unified layer, cognitive agents detect emergent patterns and register insights. Configurable personas e.g., Risk Analyst, Tactical Executor, Innovation Catalyst etc. evaluate strategic significance by role, mission context, and operational urgency. A Consensus Builder aligns perspectives, while a Prioritized Insights Agent elevates findings based on relevance, urgency, and impact. Built on AWS GovCloud (UNCLASSIFIED), AWS Secret Region, and AWS Top Secret Region (TOP SECRET), CIPHER leverages native compliance with U.S. Government requirements and aligns to enclave-specific controls while maintaining orchestrated governance across domains. • SCCA with Zero Trust Implements DISA CCSRG-approved Secure Cloud Computing Architecture with defense-in-depth and Zero Trust tenets. Provides micro-segmentation, deep packet inspection, DMZ resources, host management, vulnerability scanning, and centralized security log aggregation. Enforces identity-aware access using RBAC and ABAC to minimize insider risk and ensure least-privilege. • Scalable Multi-Domain Cloud Engineered to operate seamlessly across NIPR/SIPR/JWICS with modular, scalable foundations for sensor ingest, processing, and query. Each enclave has discrete security boundaries with tailored policy compliance. Using Infrastructure-as-Code, dynamic scaling, and enclave-isolated services, CIPHER ingests and scales to future ingestion, enrichment, and dissemination demands without sacrificing speed, resilience, or fidelity. • Integrated DevSecOps End-to-end pipeline with Git-based version control, Jenkins CI, and SonarQube for static analysis and secure code validation. Unit tests and security scans are automated gates; code cannot promote unless it passes. Infrastructure-as-Code (IAC) enforces consistency and rapid, repeatable environment builds across Stage/Test/Prod, supporting traceability and auditability. • Cross-Domain Transfer (AWS Diode, RTB) Secure cross-domain movement via AWS Diode compliant with NSA/DoD Raise-The-Bar, with support for ACC’s Mission Data Diode. Transfers of code, data, and artifacts are controlled, auditable, and inspected: malware scanning, file-type sanitization, and rule-based validation to prevent leakage/contamination. • Secure Brokering & Ingestion Pipelines aggregate and transform structured/unstructured sources. Brokering components validate, tag, enrich, and classify data before exposure. Autonomous metadata tagging and contextual linkage enable cognitive orchestration to detect, correlate, and prioritize mission-critical insights with minimal re-engineering for new sources. • Real-Time Storage, Analytics, & Dashboards A multi-tiered data store supports interoperability, modularity, and extensibility (including compressed formats such as FLAC/bzip where applicable). Real-time analytics feed mission-relevant dashboards tailored to decision-makers, operators, and analysts. AI accelerates early pattern detection and cross-domain correlation, shifting teams from observation to proactive anticipation. • Investigation & Telemetry Continuous monitoring of management, control, and data planes. AWS CloudTrail records every API action, including privileged operations. Ingress/egress traffic is captured and analyzed to surface anomalies and support threat hunting. • Security & Compliance Validation Static/dynamic code analysis using SonarQube and Fortify; vulnerability assessments via Tenable. Red-team exercises emulate adversarial behavior to validate SCCA controls and Zero Trust enforcement. Enclave-isolated testing ensures AI/data components cannot cause cross-domain contamination. • Reliability & Health CloudWatch provides continuous health and performance visibility. Self-regulating patterns like autoscaling groups for HA components, alarms, and load balancing to support resilience and rapid recovery. Net effect: CIPHER couples cross-domain rigor (SCCA/Zero Trust/RTB) with adaptive data fabric and cognitive agents to produce validated, prioritized, and operationally actionable insights at the speed of mission—without locking into brittle pipelines or manual integration.