On March 18, the Air Force Research Laboratory, AFRL/RY Sensors Directorate posted an updated advanced research announcement (ARA) for Trusted and Elastic Military Platforms and Electronic Warfare (EW) System Technologies (TEMPEST). The ARA will remain open for calls until October 11, 2025.
The TEMPEST program will investigate, develop, mature, prototype and demonstrate methodologies, tools, techniques, and capabilities to identify susceptibilities and mitigate vulnerabilities in avionics systems, protect those systems against cyber-attack, provide simulation capabilities required to develop, mature and transition advanced avionics and sensor technologies, develop platform architecture technologies that enable revolutionary and agile capabilities, and expand emerging open system architecture (OSA) standards and approaches for existing and next-generation Air Force and Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems in multi-domain environments.
Calls issued against this ARA will:
- Develop experimental programs that prototype, integrate and demonstrate promising cyber security and cognitive avionics technologies to increase our platforms’ and weapon systems’ survivability and resiliency in the face of multidomain threats and attacks.
- Develop, experiment, prototype and integrate, in a laboratory environment, new cognitive, cyber hardened and high speed, flexible system architectures.
- Cooperate across the Air Force, DoD, and the Intelligence Community, to develop experimental programs that integrate advanced cyber security and cognitive sensor technologies, techniques, systems and developmental algorithms, new cyber hardened and high speed, flexible system architectures, and advanced avionics, sensors, processing, and exploitation capabilities focused on Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) onto various weapon systems to create revolutionary capabilities.
- Develop experimental programs that implement OSA-based reference architectures to demonstrate the cost and time benefits of applying OSA techniques and align multiple open architecture (OA) standards to prove the interoperability of various standards. Apply and demonstrate tools, technologies, and techniques to more rapidly document, model, simulate, and analyze new OSA-based system capabilities to determine the benefits for individual platforms and the warfighter.
Review the AFRL TEMPEST ARA.
Source: SAM
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