BAE Systems To Develop Cybersecurity Solutions For Military Aircraft

BAE Systems announced that it is developing cyber defense capabilities to help aircraft detect and mitigate cyberattacks in real time.

The new capabilities — including system analysis, reverse engineering, and intrusion detection — will build upon the company’s state-of-the-art threat management solutions and help protect warfighters and aircraft from a variety of cyber threats.

“We understand how the threats to military aircraft are evolving, and we’re focused on developing technology that protects warfighters from current and emerging cyber threats,” said Cheryl Paradis, director of Threat Management Solutions at BAE Systems. “This work will help provide them with the tools they need to successfully complete their missions”.

The company’s new threat management capabilities include automated vulnerability assessment, subsystem hardening, and malicious system behavior identification. The versatile cyber defense technology can be implemented on existing threat warning systems or as a stand-alone solution. This approach builds on the company’s commitment to providing more mission capabilities to warfighters without burdening their aircraft with excessive size, weight, and power demands.

These cyber defense capabilities expand the company’s threat management portfolio, including the recently announced 3-Dimensional Advanced Warning System (3DAWS) product suite, which is designed to protect aircraft from first-encounter kinetic threats with layered countermeasures.