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Notable TIs are findings and/or summaries of responses to the most recent and impactful technical inquiries submitted by CSIAC members under our 4 free hours of information research support

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Privacy Impact Assessment: The Foundation for Managing Privacy Risk

What is the industry standard for performing a privacy impact assessment?

What is the operational system risk imposed by the infrastructure deployment pipeline workflow?

What is the operational system risk imposed by the infrastructure deployment pipeline workflow?

Smart Cities, Smart Bases, and Secure Cloud Architecture for Resiliency by Design

How can the smart city concept be applied to military bases, and what security concerns would need to be assessed?

Challenges in Applying the Law of Armed Conflict to Cyberwar

Given the United States-Russian bilateral recommendation from the 47th Munich Security Conference, what are some of the foreseen challenges in applying the law of armed conflict to cyberwar?

Commercially Available Firewalls

Which firewalls are currently available commercially?

Commercially Available Vulnerability Assessment Tools

Which vulnerability assessment tools are currently commercially available?

Example Inquiries

Example TIs are samples of the wide range of technical inquiries submitted by CSIAC members under our 4 free hours of information research support. They are intended to show the breadth of information requests we receive.

Who in the U.S. Department of Defense has a suite of software tools to perform a detailed analysis and numerical simulations that can be employed to calculate radar cross section based on an unmanned aerial vehicle's three-dimensional model?

April 30, 2025

What is the most efficient way to connect to updated Future Year Defense Program and president's budget data for use in Power BI data models?

April 30, 2025

What is the current state of the art for tire terrain interface models for automotive simulations, and do the current models allow for digital terrain models (DTMs), digital surface models (DSMs), or digital elevation models (DEMs) to be used as road or trail input?

February 11, 2025

Are reinforcement learning techniques available for a next-generation threat system?

January 23, 2025

Who can provide information on getting approval to use something like NotebookLM on closed-loop U.S. Department of Defense computers?

January 23, 2025

Can information be provided on methods to efficiently improve commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) information and communication technology (ICT) products for cybersecurity risks?

January 23, 2025

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