The Harlow Report-GIS
2023 Edition
ISSN 0742-468X
Since 1978
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first published week of: 05/08/2023
DARPA Looking for Flaws in Business Systems
by Nick Wakeman
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency wants to better understand what leads to breakdowns in these systems.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Area is looking for ways to better mine the business systems and processes used by the Pentagon and where vulnerabilities might be.
These aren’t necessarily cybersecurity vulnerabilities, but places where the processes breakdown.
A new broad agency announcement.describes how DARPA wants to develop tools that can identify logic faults and vulnerabilities in the business systems that control and manage defense workflows involving manufacturing, infrastructure and logistics. Both DOD and companies use those systems.
The so-called “business logic” software systems are written by the likes of SAP, Oracle, Workday, IBM and Salesforce. DARPA describes those systems as having control over “most of the world’s enterprises, from administration and operation of seaports worldwide to the assembly of weapons systems.”
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