The overarching theme for C3E 2016 activities will be "Understanding Consequences". Discussions will center on the lingering challenges associated with our inability to understand collateral effects and collateral damage in cyberspace, which typically limit our options.

This theme leverages a number of recent studies as well as C3E 2013's emphasis on creating awareness of different courses of action in cyberspace. We'll use an integrated set of tracks and a Challenge Problem to address this topic, starting with a one-day event on 11 May in Washington DC and continuing through the Fall 2016 event.

Understanding Cyber Dependence:

- Validating known and discovering unknown interdependencies: what analytic methods or tools inform us of our interdependencies, and at what confidence levels? What new approaches can inform our thinking about this? What capabilities are needed to delieate the degree of dependence that is acceptable?

Improving Risk Models and Analytic Frameworks:

- Assuming that we cannot identify all interdependencies, how can we apply risk models or other analytic frameworks to maximize courses of action in support of resilience? How can we provide insights about risk of action to decision-makers? What tools are available/needed that can help us to tailor investments so that risk can be more easily managed?

Challenge Problem: Understanding Consequences

-- We would also tailor a Challenge Problem to the theme of understanding consequences. One ide would be to use a SCORE-briefed tool "CAMO as a possible tool to be used in such a challenge problem.

In preparation for the fall C3E 2016 Workshop, we are holding a one day event on May 11th at the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's Keck Center in Washington, DC. Overall attendance to the 11 May event will be constrained in order to focus on specific C3E areas in a time-limited setting.

We look forward to your continued contributions in our efforts to advance the strategic defense of our nation's cyber infrastructure!