Session: CIE-24-01 - AMS-CAPPD-SEIKEM: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Design and Manufacturing

Paper Number: 90067

90067 - Multi-Mission Engineering With Zero Trust: A Modeling Methodology and Application to Contested Offshore Wind Farms 

With the growth of autonomy and augmentation of machine learning in system decision-making, systems-of-systems (SoS) have become increasingly complex. Security and safety, as well as national economic stability, are reliant on interconnected systems with multiple decision making components. While such inter-connectivity advances the speed at which action and mission control decision making can take place, it also increases the number of dependencies at risk in the case of an attack and the speed at which attacks become effective in their goals. Attacks on the supply chain and on system lifecycle phases other than the operation are also becoming more common. In this paper we consider from a mission engineering perspective a complex reconfigurable SoS covering management of a wind farm with autonomous uncrewed patrol systems, crewed maintenance vessels, back-end control and machine learning components. The complex SoS is situated in the exclusive economic zone of one country, but with perimetric position to regional power competitors. We investigate causal effects of adversarial capabilities in the case study, using a zero trust combined with Defense in Depth approach.  Of particular interest are situations where an adversary injects an incipient fault during one mission that is only brought to fruition during a subsequent mission.

Presenting Author: Douglas L. Van Bossuyt Naval Postgraduate School

Presenting Author Biography: Dr. Douglas L. Van Bossuyt is currently an assistant professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in the Systems Engineering Department. Previously he was an automation engineer at KTM Research and a probabilistic risk assessment engineer at NuScale Power. He holds an Honors Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, an Honors Bachelor of Arts in International Studies, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering from Oregon State University (USA). His area of research focuses on emergent system behaviors through the lens of risk and failure-informed conceptual system design for complex systems.

Authors:

Douglas L. Van Bossuyt Naval Postgraduate School
Britta Hale Naval Postgraduate School
Ryan Arlitt Technical University of Denmark
Nikolaos Papakonstantinou VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland