Pentagon researchers have decided the most effective way to penetrate state-of-the-art air defenses is the same approach with which users have flummoxed large-scale IT security operations for years:
Open-source, plug-and-play interfaces that allow intruders to assemble a mix of components so unpredictable it is impossible to defend against all the thousands of unique possible combinations, according to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
So – under a new approach called the System of Systems (SoS) Integration Technology and Experimentation (SoSITE) – DARPA is looking for ways to make sure U.S. attacks remain unstoppable by mixing and matching drones, fighters, cruise missiles, smart bombs, electronic warfare and other systems into unpredictable combinations whose combined capabilities make the combination unstoppable even if each individual system involved in it is not.
Prototypical U.S. tech-dependent air-superiority attacks currently depend on super-advanced, radar-evading fighters that go in ahead of the rest of a strike force to destroy an enemy's stationary radar systems and stay in the area to attack any mobile anti-aircraft missile-systems radar that light up when the main body of attackers arrives.
