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Beyond SCADA

BERJAYA

National Coordination Office:

Networking and Information Technology Research and Development

2006 National Meeting

Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for
Cyber Physical Systems

November 8 & 9, 2006 ~ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

 

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Webpage hosted by Team for Research in Ubiquitous Secure Technologies, TRUST for NITRD

Facilitated and Organized by

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The nation's critical physical infrastructure depends crucially on SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and DCS (Digital Control Systems). Power networks, oil, gas, and water networks, chemical process control, transportation networks, the heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems of buildings depend critically on the sensing, monitoring, gathering, and control of information from distributed sensing devices. It is clear that these devices have been deployed in ad-hoc fashion in our infrastructures and are widely used in a number of different kinds of applications including economic load dispatch, security monitoring, regulation of climate and other such functions. As our use of ubiquitous computing and communication devices has increased, we have gradually built greater functionality into our SCADA/DCS systems. The by-product of these technological advances has been a lack of planned deployment of what we may refer to as high confidence devices and software. These are Devices and Networked Systems that are:
  1. Correct by construction and which can be reprogrammed on the fly based on the functionality that is expected of them.
  2. Fault tolerant, such that they are able to resist catastrophic failure under certain kinds of faults and mis-configurations and are able to reconfigure themselves to degrade gracefully under faulty conditions.
  3. Resistant to information attack, such that they have defense-in-depth features which allow them to resist attack by determined hackers, hacktivisits, and possibly even nation-states.

Beyond SCADA: Cyber Physical Systems Meeting (HCSS-NEC4CPS) was held on November 8 & 9, 2006 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This meeting was sponsored by the National Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program's High Confidence Systems and Software (HCSS) Coordinating Group (CG), the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the National Security Agency. This series of meetings facilitated the roadmapping process for the research agenda in the area of Networked Embedded Control Systems. This meeting was organized by Carnegie Mellon University and University of California, Berkeley.

Presentations

 

"National Workshop on Beyond SCADA: Networked Embedded Control for Cyber-Physical Systems (NEC4CPS): Research Strategies and Roadmap," by Bruce Krogh, Marija Ilic, and S. Shankar Sastry. (7/16/2007)

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