Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Novel Cyber UAV Protection
Cyber Vulnerability of Aviation Systems
Lockheed Martin’s Solution
The Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Laboratories successfully demonstrated a prototype for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that provides cyber protection to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) at the Northern Plains UAS Test Site under the Protecting Unmanned Privacy (PUP) program. Lockheed Martin’s cyber capability focuses on the protection of a system at the hardware level, relying on monitoring patterns to catch an attack before it happens, rather than monitoring software execution to stop or isolate an attack once it has occurred.
Lockheed Martin flew an autonomous swarm of aircraft that incorporated an onboard dispatch system, allowing the aircraft to talk to each other and the ground dispatch system. The team demonstrated the ability to protect aircraft from a cyber-attack with hardware monitoring that identified exploit patterns and halting instructions before the system was affected.
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Looking Forward
As aircraft and aviation systems become increasingly networked and the operator moves farther to the edge of the loop, cyber systems must continue to evolve in novel ways. Lockheed Martin’s hardware-based cyber protection methods will support both manned and unmanned aviation as cyber needs become increasingly complex.
Here’s more background?on how we’re ushering in a new era of autonomous All-Domain mission capability.
About the Northern Plains UAS Test Site
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Please contact Katie Gilmore at:?katrina.a.gilmore@lmco.com
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