DRE: Designing for Resilience through Emulation

Technical Report · Mon Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 2025

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/2999111· OSTI ID:2999111

Thorpe, Jamie Elisabeth ^[1]; Coffey, Todd S. ^[1]; Jacobs, Nicholas ^[1]; Stephens, John Adam ^[1]; Williams, Bethanie Deanne ^[1]

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1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)

Threats to cyber- and cyber-physical systems have continued to increase over the past decade. Now more than ever, it is vital that cyber-physical system stakeholders have the tools to deeply understand their systems and the threats they face. High-fidelity modeling capabilities are powerful tools to support system understanding and decision-making, but they currently lack scientifically rigorous experimentation practices and infrastructures. The purpose of the project Designing for Resilience through Emulation (DRE) was to bring together past research and existing tools into a new pipeline to improve our ability to quantitatively evaluate future cyber scenarios. DRE offers new integrated capabilities for large dataset collection, noise studies, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification, and surrogate modeling using a cyber-physical system emulation environment. These new capabilities significantly improve our ability to establish the credibility of the answers derived from emulation environments, ultimately leading to better critical decision support.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program
• DOE Contract Number: NA0003525
• OSTI ID: 2999111
• Report Number(s): SAND--2025-12402; 1790046
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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