White Paper: Tactical Virtualization: A New Design Paradigm for Combat Systems

January 22, 2026

6 min read (1,678 words)

Cyber-attacks against high-value combat management and weapons control systems are a growing concern across the Department of Defense. Traditional approaches using basic network firewalls or threat monitoring often fall short of meeting operational requirements.

A flexible and extensible cyber-resiliency solution using virtualization, known as Tactical Virtualization (Tac-V), offers an opportunity to exploit modern hardware on tactical platforms to create secure, resilient, and easily upgradable combat platforms by separating functionality into isolated execution domains.

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