Abstract: An automated system and method provides for planning and response to disparate threats with combined kinetic (e.g., missile interceptor) and non-kinetic (e.g., cyber and electronic warfare) effects. The threat and effects inputs and the results of analysis tools that individually apply a single effect type to negate a threat vulnerability are normalized to a form and format ingestible by a Stochastic Math Model (SMM). The normalized inputs reflect the success/failure of the effect versus a threat vulnerability as a score, not a probability. The normalized results decompose a probability of defeat (Pdefeat) for an individual effect as a set of hierarchical parameters represented as probabilities.

Abstract: An automated system and method provides for planning and response to disparate threats with combined kinetic (e.g., missile interceptor) and non-kinetic (e.g., cyber and electronic warfare) effects. The threat and effects inputs and the results of analysis tools that individually apply a single effect type to negate a threat vulnerability are normalized to a form and format ingestible by a Stochastic Math Model (SMM). The normalized inputs reflect the success/failure of the effect versus a threat vulnerability as a score, not a probability. The normalized results decompose a probability of defeat (Pdefeat) for an individual effect as a set of hierarchical parameters represented as probabilities.

Abstract: A system monitors utilization of a tributary to a main SDH transmission path. The main SDH transmission path is arranged to transport a series of data frames, each of which contains virtual containers. A data signal from tributary is loaded into virtual containers reserved to carry the data signal. The monitoring system includes an optical service unit and a computer. The optical service unit monitors bytes of the virtual containers reserved to carry the tributary for the presence of a predetermined bit pattern and transmits a report containing the results of the monitoring to the computer. In the computer, data contained in the report is used to evaluate utilization of the tributary. One example of the bit pattern which is monitored is the presence of all binary "1"s in each byte of tile payload of a virtual container.