Mission Performance & Security Directorate
Our Mission
The Mission Performance and Security Directorate ensures that space missions achieve their operational objectives while maintaining robust cybersecurity and system resilience. It integrates performance analytics, secure system design, and adaptive defense / offensive technologies to optimize mission effectiveness under evolving threat conditions. The Directorate collaborates with mission operators, engineers, and researchers to develop and transition innovative solutions that enhance both mission assurance and cyber protection across the space enterprise.
Focus Areas:
- Secure software development and integration
- MLS / CDS design and governance
- Mission-cyber Testing
- Mission cyber situational awareness development
- Mission focused cyber threat intelligence
- Adversary-informed engineering
- Offensive cybersecurity operations AND defensive cyber alignment
- Resilience engineering and contingency planning
- Modeling, simulation, and digital engineering
- AI/ML and advanced analytics integration
- Evaluate system requirements, architecture options, and integration pathways
- Mission performance optimization and Mission performance analytics and readiness metrics