The Air Force Research Laboratory’s Information Directorate collaborated with Raytheon Technologies and other private entities to create a robust information provisioning layer for secure network management.

The RIPL technology was developed to support the U.S. Air Force’s various command and control programs, including the Air Combat Command’s Combat Cloud Vision, the laboratory said Monday.

RIPL uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to securely release critical data across networks based only on what users, such as warfighters, request and are authorized to access.

In a controllable and contested test environment, the technology demonstrated seamless and transparent data transmission despite weak internet connectivity. The demo, which involved accessing different types of information from multiple domains, also showed potential for data exchange linking air, space and terrestrial missions.

Brian Holmes, program manager of AFRL’s Advanced Planning and Autonomous C2 Systems branch, stated that RIPL will be beneficial to the USAF Advanced Battle Management System for joint all-domain command and control.

Amazon Web Services tapped Sumo Logic to lend its information technology protection and observability capabilities to Amazon Security Lake, a new security data centralization service for organizations.

Sumo Logic announced that its Cloud SIEM and Cloud SOAR platforms will provide additional analytics of cloud and on-premises information that are logged into Security Lake.

The partnership aims to help security teams modernize their operations through cloud-native detection, investigation and response.

Cloud SIEM ranks by urgency and correlates threat alerts from multiple environments. Cloud SOAR gathers data from SIEM and other sources, and uses machine learning to eliminate false positives and duplicates from the reported threats.

“Our early support of AWS Security Lake is another milestone in our partnership to accelerate cloud and digital transformation. It showcases our commitment to incorporate new models in pursuit of customer scale and flexibility,” said Dave Frampton, senior vice president and general manager of Sumo Logic’s security business unit.

The Office of Management and Budget has issued a memorandum requiring agencies to report at least 80 percent of their government-furnished equipment through the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program by the end of fiscal year 2023.

CDM is a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency-managed program that seeks to help agencies detect, monitor and counter cyber vulnerabilities using commercial off-the-shelf tools.

According to the memo, CISA should provide agencies with a list of software categories that meet the “critical software” definition no later than Jan. 15.

CISA should also provide OMB with information on scanning cadence and other performance data beginning in the third quarter of FY 2023 and work with OMB and the CISO Council FISMA Metrics Subcommittee to “identify future metrics for automation in FY 2024.”

The document directs agencies to submit information on assets in an automated manner starting in the current fiscal year’s first quarter and meet all reporting requirements of the CDM Federal Dashboard.

“Agencies are encouraged to provide the CDM PMO with feedback on existing tools and input on additional tools that may prove valuable for current or future CDM acquisition vehicles,” the memo states.

The OMB memo seeks to provide agencies with FY 2023 reporting guidance and deadlines in compliance with the Federal Information Security Modernization Act.