CTOP
Cyber Terrain Operations Platform
Explainable Mission Assurance for Air Force Stakeholders
An AI-enabled knowledge graph prototype designed to support aerial decision-making for U.S. Air Force missions.
Overview
The Cyber Terrain Operations Platform (CTOP) is an explainable, AI‑enabled prototype designed to help Air Force stakeholders understand cyber terrain, mission dependencies, and operational risk in a more connected and usable way. CTOP brings together technical data, supporting artifacts, and mission‑relevant context to help analysts and decision‑makers see how systems relate to one another, where dependencies exist, and how issues may affect mission execution.
CTOP is intended to support human decision‑making, not replace it. The platform is designed to provide clearer visibility, traceability to source information, and a practical way to explore mission impact across complex environments.
Key Capabilities
Correlates technical data, system relationships, and mission context
Helps identify dependencies, potential single points of failure, and mission impacts
Supports mission‑thread visibility across complex cyber terrain
Provides traceable outputs tied back to source information
Enables analyst‑driven exploration, filtering, and what‑if assessment
Designed to complement existing Air Force processes and systems
Designed for Air Force Stakeholders
This animated video and white paper are intended for Air Force mission owners, cyber leaders, analysts, engineers, and program stakeholders exploring improved approaches to cyber terrain visibility, mission assurance, and decision support.
The content is unclassified and represents a prototype concept for discussion and potential transition, not an operationally deployed system.
Antean welcomes technical dialogue with government stakeholders to explore mission alignment, prototype applicability, and transition pathways.