Automated Cyber-Readiness Evaluator (ACE)

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has a need for assessing the capability and combat readiness of its cyber workforce. However, because cyber is a relatively new mission area for the DoD, it does not yet have a robust, objective assessment platform that it can use to validate the hands-on, technical knowledge and skills of its cyber workforce. Our research aims to address this challenge problem by developing a system that can interpret the hands-on activities a user is performing on a computer screen and translate those actions into quantifiable measures of cyber-based knowledge and skill.