Military strategists use their map tables when they’re planning big campaigns. The idea behind Plan X is to build that sort of thing for cyber-warfare strategists, too.
The program lets planners plot routes and weigh their options, expanding maps on a giant table-size iPad à la the movie "Minority Report." Program manager Frank Pound describes it as “like a Google Maps for the Internet.”
In other words, if efforts of America's cyber-warriors to, say, shut down a power plant are thwarted in one direction, they can find another cyber-route into the system.
DARPA describes it as a “foundational cyberwarfare program” that will allow the Pentagon to “plan, conduct, and assess cyberwarfare in a manner similar to kinetic warfare.”
