Space cybersecurity research
Investigation of threats, vulnerabilities, and defensive architectures for spacecraft, ground systems, mission software, embedded systems, and networked space technologies.
Space Networking and Cybersecurity
Thrust Area
Space Cybersecurity and Secure Mission Networks
COSMIAC researches secure mission networks for space and defense operations, including space cybersecurity, cloud-enabled architectures, tactical edge communications, cross-domain concepts, private LTE, and resilient command-and-control workflows.
This thrust addresses the reality that modern space systems are increasingly software-defined, networked, and connected to operational users across contested environments.
Suggested image: secure mission network architecture, space cyber testbed, or command-and-control data flow diagram.
Securing mission data from sensor to decision maker
Space cybersecurity and secure mission networks require more than isolated software testing. COSMIAC focuses on the systems, software, architectures, and testbeds needed to protect mission data and maintain resilient operations across spacecraft, ground systems, field assets, cloud infrastructure, and command nodes.
This thrust includes vulnerability assessment, secure embedded systems, cloud-enabled mission architectures, edge compute, private LTE, cross-domain workflows, and next-generation command-and-control concepts.
Focus areas
- Space cybersecurity research
- Secure mission networks and data movement
- Cloud and tactical edge architectures
- Cross-domain and command-and-control workflows
- Private LTE and resilient field communications
- Secure embedded systems and hardware/software integration
Capabilities
Technical support for cyber-resilient spacecraft, mission networks, field systems, and secure operational workflows.
Secure mission networks
Architectures that connect sensors, field nodes, cloud systems, tactical users, and command elements across constrained or contested environments.
Cloud and tactical edge
Evaluation of on-prem cloud, cloud-adjacent infrastructure, edge compute, portable terminals, and distributed mission applications.
Cross-domain concepts
Controlled information flows, data packaging, routing, and workflows for moving mission data securely between operational environments.
Private LTE and field communications
Private LTE, end-user device concepts, resilient backhaul, low-cost field communications, and operational communications experiments.
Secure embedded systems
FPGA, SoC, microprocessor, firmware, and hardware/software co-design approaches for secure aerospace and defense systems.
Build secure space and mission networks.
Engage COSMIAC for space cyber research, secure mission architecture, cloud-enabled testbeds, or resilient field data movement.
