EAGER: DCL: SaTC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Space Cybersecurity, Policy, and Risks

EAGER：DCL：SaTC：实现跨学科合作：空间网络安全、政策和风险

• 批准号: 2208458
• 负责人: Patrick Lin
• 金额: $ 29.95万
• 依托单位: California Polytechnic State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2208458&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; DCL; SaTC; Enabling; Interdisciplinary

Outer space assets are critical to modern life, such as for GPS positioning, financial-services connectivity, surveillance of disaster areas, and global communications. Their strategic importance and physical distance from Earth make them particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks. This threat increases over time with technological advances and the accelerating pace of space activities. Much of these activities are conducted without public comment on cybersecurity risks. The stakes become even higher given that more space debris could be created by cyberattacks, either deliberately or unintentionally. These attacks could threaten safe orbits and launches. Thus, understanding these risk scenarios, from technical and policy perspectives, is essential to understand and mitigate cyber vulnerabilities in space. In doing so, the project is a contribution to national security, economic stability, and public safety. This project offers a broad set of scenarios and taxonomy on how cyberattacks could occur with space technologies, including novel or rare threats. Because space law is still under-developed, the study includes an analysis of the ethical, legal, and policy issues and gaps that arise from multiple risk scenarios. With a team of ethicists and technologists, the project is interdisciplinary. The project is also guided through a workshop for additional domain expertise in space systems architecture, space law, and cyber law. The goal is to deliver a public report, citizen outreach, and student learning about space cybersecurity, ethics, and policy. Through this effort, the project aims to protect the vital space domain from the damage of cyberattacks that have plagued other domains important to human life.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

外层空间资产对于现代生活至关重要，例如 GPS 定位、金融服务连接、灾区监视和全球通信。它们的战略重要性和与地球的物理距离使它们特别容易受到网络攻击。随着技术进步和太空活动步伐的加快，这种威胁随着时间的推移而增加。其中大部分活动都是在没有对网络安全风险发表公开评论的情况下进行的。鉴于网络攻击可能有意或无意地产生更多的太空碎片，风险变得更高。这些攻击可能会威胁安全轨道和发射。因此，从技术和政策角度理解这些风险场景对于理解和减轻太空网络漏洞至关重要。在此过程中，该项目为国家安全、经济稳定和公共安全做出了贡献。该项目提供了一系列关于如何利用空间技术进行网络攻击的场景和分类，包括新颖或罕见的威胁。由于太空法仍不完善，该研究包括对多种风险情景产生的伦理、法律和政策问题以及差距的分析。该项目拥有一支由伦理学家和技术专家组成的团队，是跨学科的。该项目还通过一个研讨会来指导，以获取空间系统架构、空间法和网络法方面的其他领域专业知识。目标是提供公开报告、公民外展以及学生对太空网络安全、道德和政策的了解。通过这一努力，该项目旨在保护重要的太空领域免受网络攻击的损害，这些攻击已经困扰了对人类生活重要的其他领域。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。影响审查标准。