Employ the following concealment and misdirection techniques for [Assignment: organization-defined systems] at [Assignment: organization-defined time periods] to confuse and mislead adversaries: [Assignment: organization-defined concealment and misdirection techniques].
Concealment and misdirection techniques sometimes seem extravagant and can serve strategic purposes in contested space environments. For instance, a spacecraft might obscure a critical downlink's true frequency or modulation patterns. In practice, advanced mission planners evaluate whether such obfuscation's power, mass, and complexity overhead are worth the secrecy benefits. If an adversary's surveillance or jamming capabilities are sophisticated, it may be prudent to disguise transmissions as innocuous background noise or adopt decoy beacons. However, these strategies can complicate ground-station protocols and require thorough operational rehearsals. When effectively integrated with cryptographic TRANSEC measures, concealment can degrade an adversary's ability to detect, track, and exploit the spacecraft's genuine data flows, thus boosting mission survivability in a kinetic or electronic warfare scenario.
The [spacecraft] shall implement concealment and misdirection techniques to obscure sensitive information and deceive unauthorized individuals attempting to gain unauthorized access; these techniques shall be designed and configured to mislead and divert potential adversaries while maintaining the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of the actual information.{SC-30}