Architecture and Conceptual Formalization of Cyber-Mission Operations

Nowadays, military cyber-missions are increasingly complex, demanding specific and critical socio-technical operational resources. We propose a conceptual proposal of a system architecture aimed at supporting complex operations of cyber-missions. The architecture allows the systematic selecting and prioritizing socio-technical resources for cyber-missions in a systematic manner. The foundations of the proposed architecture are based on a mission operations ontology; it was developed for formalizing the main concepts. The main contributions of the work are: (i) Conceptual Architecture to supporting complex cyber-mission operations; (ii) Lightweight ontology to make explicit its main concepts; and, (iii) an Application Scenario of the system architecture. Our proposal is meant to be useful for researchers, developers and actuators who deal with socio-technical systems in cyber-mission operations.