US Acquisition professionals and other senior leaders work in increasingly complex and challenging environments. They must consider such varied elements and requirements of US laws, international obligations, ethics rules, and standards of conduct, Department of Defense (DOD) and military policies, and the local conditions and standards codified in national laws, regulations, and policies of our coalition partners and other countries.
Cybersecurity of cyber-physical systems and non-cyber-physical system IT network elements that compromise DoD system function and mission outcomes is a critical priority of Department of Defense systems professionals involved in system acquisition, deployment, operations, and sustainment. It is essential to system development and delivery through all acquisition phases. Within the post-information era, the DoD M&S enterprise is not merely the military arm of the United States governmental military software/service-oriented architecture information warfare system. However, it is that, as are the updates to our already fielded military systems and the broader US civilian critical infrastructure, too.
To address governance challenges in the global information and cyber connectivity environments, endeavors must disaggregate the factors involved and carefully calibrate policy frameworks, community education, and technical innovations. In terms of the underlying information technology, ever-increasing density, sophistication, global distribution, and enabling diversity of the specific technologies that broadly enable and support networking, computing, the ever-wider means of communications, system superimposition, IoT special needs, the growing live knowledge base, and the rapidly increasing ways of sharing secure the advent of the Post-Information Age.
The Post-Information Age is a distinct era from the Information Age, characterized by a new software-based networking and communications technology layer superimposed on and relevant intelligence incorporated within an advanced ubiquitous hardware and systems infrastructure. The Post-Information Age supports real-time deep cyber-physical systems, IoT, and interaction networking that can meet significantly more complex IoT interconnection and general system support challenges than an underperforming bottom-up approach applied to computing, communications, and networking components.
Security and less defined privacy problems increase; however, with the increasingly multidimensional complexity of the IoT factors of the system of systems (e.g., superimposition and evolution; expanding smart, interacting, and essential integration).