MOVING TARGET TRANSPARENCY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

Abstract--The National Collaborative Innovation Network (NCIN) provides a nationwide platform to support collaborative research and development across Regional Advanced Technology Clusters (RATC). The need for an NCIN capability was identified in a workshop which hosted RATC's from across the United States. The initiative will employ a phased approach, first to the Northwest Advanced Robotics Clusters (NWARC) and the Southwest Innovation Cluster (SWIC) in supporting a secure network through the use of Virtual Dispersive Networking (VDN) technology, which is analogous to a "spread spectrum frequency hopping" for Internet Protocol (IP) based networks. A wide-area VDN comprised of a mixture of fixed and mobile edge devices (servers, PC's, laptops, tablets, smart phones, etc.) provides the network operator the capability to maneuver in cyber space while controlling the tradeoffs between quality of service and security.