The Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA) is a U.S. intelligence community (IC) center for conducting advanced research and development related to information technology (IT). ARDA sponsors high risk, high payoff research designed to produce new technology to address some of the most important and challenging IT problems faced by the intelligence community. The research is currently organized into five technology thrusts: Information Exploitation, Quantum Information Science, Global Infosystems Access, Novel Intelligence from Massive Data, and Advanced Information Assurance. More information is available at http://cryptome.org/traceback.htm .
The IC uses a specialized information infrastructure and a unique security environment that must be able to acquire, retain, and provide access to highly sensitive information for many years. In this environment, relying solely on the commercial sector to satisfy IC information assurance requirements is unacceptable. Relying on COTS for certain security-critical components within the IC information infrastructure incurs even greater risk when these components are developed outside the purview of the IC or IC-sponsored organizations. The Advanced Information Assurance (IA) research thrust within ARDA's overall R&D program is tasked with providing tailored security solutions for the IC to fill any perceived security gaps in the IC's information infrastructure. Its program is currently focused in the following areas: (1) countering the insider threat; (2) cyber intelligence; (3) high assurance for IC information infrastructure; (4) new defensive concepts; and (5) quantum cryptography.
As part of its overall IC security research program, ARDA's Information Assurance research thrust is initiating research in traceback within information networks used by the intelligence community, such as NIPRNET, SIPRNET, JWICS, and IC enclaves.
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