This technical report summarizes the research efforts conducted on the Cyber Forces, Interactions, and Terrain (Cyber-FIT) agent-based modeling and simulation framework. Cyber-FIT was developed primarily as an avenue to quantitatively define military cyber team performance measures. Using the tool, realistically scaled cyber conflict simulations are run that programmatically track data that could be collected in real world environments, and then are aggregated and calculated, ultimately informing mission leadership of the cyber team performance. Virtual experiments were run to test hypothesis relevant to cyber mission forces. Cyber-FIT was then used as an engine to develop a new multi-modelling organizational simulation tool called the Organization Simulation in Response to Intrusion Strategies (OSIRIS). This effort introduces human factors behavioral modeling relevant to military research efforts such as role-based workflow modeling, training level, and memory retention. Finally, a systematic methodology was followed to complete a validation of the model.

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