a cohesive information operations (IO) capability—especially electronic warfare and computer network operations—is re- quired to test against new threats and to ensure that the Army’s tactical systems are resilient and survivable against adversaries with developing IO capabilities.
A PROTECTING ESCORT TEAMS
To help achieve these capabilities, the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumenta- tion (PEO STRI) provided key support to the Army’s first Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) this summer through its Project Manager Instrumentation, Targets, and Threat Simulators (PM ITTS) office.
With the NIE’s focus on an integrated network, the U.S. Army Test and Evalu- ation Command (ATEC) implemented a test plan calling for a robust and viable threat force and technically advanced instrumentation equipment. To satisfy the NIE’s threat needs, PM ITTS established and fielded a robust electronic warfare and computer network operations environment, deploying threat systems and personnel to White Sands Missile Range, NM, to pro- vide threat signal intelligence, direction finding, and jamming representation con- sisting of signal analysis systems, a Threat Computer Network Operations Team (TCNOT) under the purview of 1st Infor- mation Operations Command (1st IOC), and a suite of six threat jammer assets.
“Our support to NIE represents the largest deployment of threat equipment to a sin- gle event in over a decade and is a direct result of several years of successful acquisi- tions and planning to stay synchronized with Army needs,” said Brian Hill, Act- ing Director of PM ITTS’ Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO).
SPC Harold Davis, a Computer Detection Systems Repairer with the 749th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, 4th Sustainment Brigade, 103rd Sustainment Command (Expeditionary), upgrades a Counter Remote Control Improvised Explosive Device Electronic Warfare system at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq. Specialists such as Davis work to keep convoy escort teams safe from remote-controlled improvised explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan. These devices were tested against new threats during the NIE. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of 4th Sustainment Brigade.)
s the Army’s tactical network has evolved into a system- of-systems architecture with advanced cyber technologies,
INTEGRATED THREAT FORCE Because PM ITTS’ support to NIE is expected to increase with follow-on NIE events, PM ITTS is developing solutions that will enable the fielding of the Army’s first Integrated Threat Force (ITF).
The ITF is designed as a test and evalua- tion solution to augment threat mission control, situational awareness, threat fidelity, and reporting of threat force portrayal. The ITF accomplishes this by seamlessly integrating individual threat- faithful systems into one cohesive threat force capable of providing the following capabilities: mission control, communica- tions, situational awareness visualization, and collaboration.
ITF is designed to support various test sizes and constructs using the following threat systems:
• Networked Electronic Support Threat Sensors, a suite of electronic surveil- lance capabilities that includes direction finding, signal collection, and signal exploitation. The system provides ITF
the ability to detect, locate, and identify Blue Force emitters.
• Threat Signals Injection Jammer (TSIJ), an electronic attack system that allows tactical radios to be jammed and evaluated without conducting disruptive open-air electronic warfare testing. The program develops and procures state-of- the-art threat signal injection jammers with remote control capability. The TSIJ program consists of two components: the Control Signal Transmitter (CST) and Remote Jamming Unit (RJU). The CST controls the amplitude of the injected waveform, as well as the selec- tion of the jamming waveform. The RJU is a jamming component that is connected directly to the system under test. It can perform jamming on com- munication and GPS signals.
• Network Exploitation Test Tool (NETT), a comprehensive computer network operations capability that delivers an integrated suite of open- source exploitation tools. It is designed to enable information warfare profes- sionals to conduct live penetration and distribution tests on friendly
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