Cyberspace Situational Awareness Demands Mimic Traditional Command Requirements Experience gained from battlefields helps military prepare information operation defenses

Next-generation network management and intrusion detection systems will fuse data, combining both short-term sensor data with long-term knowledge databases to provide cyberspace situational awareness-based decision support systems and cyberspace command and control. Sophisticated computer hardware and software will identify a myriad of objects against a noise-saturated environment. Cyberspace command and control systems will track the objects, calculate the velocity, estimate the projected threats and provide other critical decision support functions.