U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)
AI Research & Innovation
The challenge our customer brought us.
AI defenders for critical government cyber systems lack a deep learning system that can continuously improve defense capabilities. This problem is heightened by a lack of advanced AI attackers that can test a diverse range of cyber defenses.
What we designed and delivered.
Train a robust AI attacker and AI defender to continuously improve cyber defenses.
Created a multi-agent system to pit both “Red” AI attackers and “Blue” AI defenders against one another to continually improve both AI cyber capabilities.
Utilize a decision transformer as an innovative solution due to its ability to learn with sparse rewards and large action spaces enabling an unprecedented amount and type of attack scenarios.
The AI attacking model presents unique attacking vectors not traditionally seen by cyber defenses.
After seeing these unique attack vectors, the robustness of the AI defense model significantly enhances cyber defenses.
The difference it made.
25%
average AI attacker performance gain
Successfully trained a “Red” AI attacker which consistently won games against a weak defender after training the AI attacker against a strong defender.
The performance of the AI attacker showed an average increase of 25% compared to the in-domain attacking model.
This proved that a multi-agent approach will train both more effective attackers and defenders.
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Other programs we’ve delivered.
Next Generation Threat System (NGTS) GPT
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Generative AI Logistics for Communication and Execution (GAILFORCE)
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Augmenting CILEMP to Enable Fleet Autonomy with Generative AI (CILEMP-FLAG)
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Goal Reasoning for Satellite Constellation Decision Making (GRANITE)
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AI-Powered Multi-Asset, Multi-Domain Operations Planning and Replanning Software (AMORE)
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Minefield Planning Evaluation and Gaming Suite
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Information Technology Services (LITeS) III
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Cyber Warning and Operations Center (CWOC) Research and Analysis
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Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations (ISRO)
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All Source Intelligence Cyberspace II
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Continuous Interactive Learners for Mission Planning (CILEMP)
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DARPA Explainable AI
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NIST Privacy Engineering Program
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U.S. Census Disclosure Avoidance System
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NAVAIR Next Generation Threat System (NGTS)
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