Autonomous Systems and Cyberspace: Opportunities for the Armed Forces

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98260-7_28" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-030-98260-7_28</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Autonomous Systems and Cyberspace: Opportunities for the Armed Forces

Original language description

The development of autonomous systems represents an opportunity for states to enhance their military power and change their status in the system of international relations, probably with the presumptions of the new Revolution in Military Affairs (RMA). Characteristics like flexible deployment, efficiency, adaptability, rapid upgradability, and/or the capacity to absorb losses that crewed systems cannot constitute potential game-changing technology in terms of military capabilities. The usage of the autonomous systems may vary from support functions (such as intelligence gathering, reconnaissance, or transportation) to coercive ones (autonomous weapon systems) in different operational domains. However, all types share a common characteristic – their interconnection with information technologies and cyberspace. Features like the complex structure, absence of specific borders, and diminished role of distance clearly distinguish this domain from land, sea, air, and even space and change the logic of how the security is provided there. Autonomous cyber systems (ACS) that operate in and through this domain represent unique military systems even among autonomous systems themselves. This paper aims to examine the interconnection between ACS and cyberspace and identify opportunities for a state’s military power represented by armed forces. This relation addresses not only the dependency of the ACS on cyberspace and cybersecurity but also possibilities to enhance the cyber capabilities of the state to promote its national interests. The paper will focus on opportunities of the relation between ACS and cyberspace for capabilities of the NATO member states’ armed forces. The Main Capability Areas (MCA) analytical framework will be used to analyze these aspects. Orientation on Prepare; Project; Engage; Sustain; Consult, Command and Control; Protect; Inform areas will identify opportunities to develop the full spectrum of potential capabilities and highlight main aspects of the transformation of the armed forces.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50900 - Other social sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems. MESAS 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13207.

ISBN

978-3-030-98260-7

ISSN

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

440-451

Publisher name

Springer

Place of publication

Cham

Event location

Virtual Event

Event date

Oct 13, 2021

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

UT code for WoS article

000787774900028