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Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority

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2002

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Mission: Incubate innovations for conducting military affairs in the age of digital technologies

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SECNAV Energy Executive Education Series
(Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA., 2013-09-03) Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority
Two SECNAV Energy Executive Education seminars are offered at NPS in 2013: 14-19 July and 22-29 September. Participants are selected and invited by the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations. The purpose is arm senior Naval leaders with an understanding of energy issues so they can lead the culture change needed to improve Naval combat capability in the next decade.
Navy Tactical Cloud
(Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA., 2013-04-19) Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority
Fleet Numerical, Meterology, and Oceanography Center (FNMOC)'s Top Three OCO Issues Paper (May 4, 2011) cites three areas of work raised by the METOC Enterprise Architecture Team (MEAT) to be implemented in the Ozone Widget Framework (used in Command and Control Rapid Prototyping Continuum or C2RPC) and interface with GeoServer, LDAP, WEAVER, and the Subscription Broker.
Collaborative IT Tools Leveraging Competence in Hastily Formed Networks
(Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School., 2013-06) Pavlou, Paul; Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority
This research focuses on the role of collaborative Information Technology (IT) technologies to enhance the effectiveness of hastily formed networks (HFNs) at the group level. Collaborative IT technologies are an integrated set of functionalities that enable collaboration among interconnected entities. Despite their widely touted potential to enhance various types of planned and ad hoc networks (e.g., HFNs), we still know little about whether, how, and why these IT technologies can support HFNs, especially in complex, information-intensive environments that characterize most Naval operations.
Tides@NPS, Making the Connections From Response to Recovery Through Research
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2017) Miller, Scot; Higgins, Sue; Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority; Cebrowski Institute
The Cebrowski Institute leads the TIDES projects at NPS in collaboration with TIDES and Dr. Linton Wells II. TIDES is established for the purpose of providing open-source knowledge in order to encourage community and individual resilience to natural and man-made disasters, and promote human security; which is freedom from want, and freedom from fear. By providing a reach-back of knowledge, it integrates multiciplinary approaches to achieve unity of action in an environment where there is no unity of control. How does it work? Projects identified as natural or man-made disasters, or human security, needs to be supported through a high-level support and coordination so that links are established between both national, public-private, and international knowledge and best practices. Our coordination team builds up the knowledge sharing and collaboration activity.
The Android Smartphone as an Inexpensive Sentry Ground Sensor
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2012-04) Schwamm, Riqui; Rowe, Neil C.; Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority; Computer Science (CS)
A key challenge of sentry and monitoring duties is detection of approaching people in areas of little human traffic. We are exploring smartphones as easily available, easily portable, and less expensive alternatives to traditional military sensors for this task, where the sensors are already integrated into the package. We developed an application program for the Android smartphone that uses its sensors to detect people passing nearby; it takes their pictures for subsequent transmission to a central monitoring station. We experimented with the microphone, light sensor, vibration sensor, proximity sensor, orientation sensor, and magnetic sensor of the Android. We got best results with the microphone (looking for footsteps) and light sensor (looking for abrupt changes in light), and sometimes good results with the vibration sensor. We ran a variety of tests with subjects walking at various distances from the phone under different environmental conditions to measure limits on acceptable detection. We got best results by combining average loudness over a 200 millisecond period with a brightness threshold adjusted to the background brightness, and we set our phones to trigger pictures no more than twice a second. Subjects needed to be within ten feet of the phone for reliable triggering, and some surfaces gave poorer results. We primarily tested using the Motorola Atrix 4G (Android 2.3.4) and HTC Evo 4G (Android 2.3.3) and found only a few differences in performance running the same program, which we attribute to differences in the hardware. We also tested two older Android phones that had problems with crashing when running our program. Our results provide good guidance for when and where to use this approach to inexpensive sensing.
Designing Good Deceptions in Defense of Information Systems
(Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 2004-12) Rowe, Neil C.; Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority
Since attackers trust computer systems to tell them the truth, it may be effective for those systems to lie or mislead. This could waste the attacker's resources while permitting time to organize a better defense, and would provide a second line of defense when access controls have been breached. We propose here a probabilistic model of attacker beliefs in each of a set of "generic excuses" (including deception) for their inability to accomplish their goals. We show how the model can be updated by evidence presented to the attacker and feedback from the attacker's own behavior. We show some preliminary results with human subjects supporting our theory. We show how this analysis permits choosing appropriate times and methods to deceive the attacker.
Hastily Formed Networks / Cebrowski Institute
(Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA., 2013-04) Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority; NPS Public Affairs
The Hastily Formed Networks (HFN) project addresses the issues arising in emergency response to crises such as the 9/11 attacks and natural disasters such as the Indian Ocean tsunami, Pakistan earthquake and Hurricane Katrina.
Military Wireless Communications (MWC)
(Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA., 2011-07-17) Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority
The research is driven by the lack of communication capabilities observed by front-line troops, while providing disaster relief, humanitarian assistance, or conducting full-scale combat operations. Traditionally, the U.S. and Allied ground troops are briefed a mission order, allocated specific communication assets, and deployed to diverse austere environments. Since communication failures and compromises have increasing potential with mission importance, the level of sophistication is significantly geared toward security and reliability. Therefore, communication capabilities are limited to prevent expediential cost increases. Our research goal is to increase the communication capabilities, maintain security and reliability, and reduce the overall cost.
Cross Sector Operations, Maritime Domain Awareness
(Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA., 2013-04) Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority; NPS Public Affairs
The DOD Instruction 3000.05 mandates increased DOD operations in support of Stability, Security, Transition, and Reconstriction (SSTR). What impact does this requirement have on naval operations and deployment preparations? How can the Navy equip their forces to coordinate and collaborate in a multi-agency, multi-partner role? The Cross Sector Operations, Maritime Domain Awareness Project intends to explore these questions and make executable recommendations across the spectrium of maritime non classified operations, from disaster response humanitarian civic affairs, to theater security cooperation, to counter drug activates to maritime domain awareness. Complicating this are arcane and outdated information sharing rules, reliance on .mil networks that non-traditional partner seek to avoid, regional differences, wide disparities in partner capabilities, and competing tasks.
STEM at Naval Postgraduate School Homepage (archived)
(Monterey, California, Naval Postgraduate School, 2013) Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority