Anti-Tamper Technology Executive Agency

Mission — Anti-Tamper Technology Executive Agent source

The Anti-Tamper (AT) Technology Executive Agency budget funds activities related to the DoD Executive Agent for AT (ATEA) responsibilities required by DoD Directive 5200.47E, "Anti-Tamper (AT).” These responsibilities are unique to the DoD ATEA and the Air Force Component Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR) for AT. The DoD ATEA is responsible for developing and enforcing AT policy and guidance, assessing AT technologies (hardware and software), maintaining and developing new AT technology products and assessment capabilities, maintaining and maturing AT laboratory equipment and infrastructure, establishing and maintaining a library of AT technologies, providing security guidance and support mechanisms, providing outreach and education to the DoD AT community, providing intelligence support, and evaluating AT implementations across all DoD acquisition programs, foreign military sales (FMS), and direct commercial sales (DCS). The AF OPR for AT evaluates AT on applicable AF acquisition programs, FMS, and DCS as well as manages AF AT technology development. AT directly enables CPI resilience. AT protects critical program information (CPI), in U.S. weapon systems that are no longer under U.S. control (e.g., lost/left on the battlefield or sold to a foreign government) from hands-on, reverse engineering (RE) attacks. AT protections enable the U.S. to preserve its technological advantage and the combat capabilities of critical weapons systems while supporting the warfighters' mission requirements. Furthermore, AT adds longevity to DoD weapon systems by deterring or delaying RE attacks, and thus reducing an adversaries' ability to obtain the CPI and/or develop weapon countermeasures against the system. All DoD acquisition programs, FMS, and DCS with CPI require a validated AT Plan. The AT program includes resources required for subject matter experts (SMEs) to evaluate AT Plans and conduct AT validation on all DoD Weapon Systems. Additionally, the AT program provides resources for SMEs to perform AT assessments of both commercial off the shelf (COTS), contractor funded government only use (CFGO) and government off the shelf (GOTS) products. As the COTS, CFGO and GOTS technologies advance, the AT program includes the resources required to mature AT hardware/software assessment capabilities. These capabilities include the acquisition of specialized equipment, maintenance and/or renovations to support the integration of this equipment, and modifications to new and/or existing laboratory facilities to meet equipment and security requirements. The DoD ATEA coordinates technology development among the DoD Services/Agencies, National Laboratories, and Industry. These technology development efforts fund development of new AT technology, as well as enhance existing AT technology efforts to increase the technology readiness level (TRL) and facilitate transition for programs to implement. The AT technology development and enhancement efforts include: advanced AT sensor hardware, secure processing, crypto-analysis, tamper penalties, modifying and developing technology to address vulnerability and susceptibility of fielded parts, and other AT enablers. The Air Force AT OPR conducts AT technology and product development to meet Air Force service needs to mature promising AT technologies to transition to Air Force weapons systems. Technology and product development priorities are given to those technologies/products that most benefit AF acquisition programs while aligning to the overall DoD ATEA technology and product development strategy. These activities are coordinated through the ATEA as a part of the ATEA technology and product development roadmap and to coordinate with Navy and Army AT technology development efforts. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605829F, 0605831F, 0605833F, 0605898F. In FY24 $2.906M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in FY25 $4.544M is forecast for civilian pay expenses in this program element. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development because this budget activity includes development efforts to upgrade systems that have been fielded or have received approval for full rate production and anticipate production funding in the current or subsequent fiscal year.

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