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“Having that agility really made it possible to have mission success and also to get a lot of feedback to better the system,” Patel said. “Being a newer system and a new tool for a maneuver unit, there are going to be a lot of things we don’t know as [cyber] engineers, and a lot of their specific needs for the capability that may not have gotten through to us. So being out there was very important to this and any other project like it.”
For example, to enhance the overall train- ing experience, RCCTO, Tobyhanna and ARCYBER were able to quickly design and deliver custom mounting systems consist- ing of cables, brackets and other hardware for vehicle and fixed-site implementation during the prototype deployment at NTC. Tis fixed-site configuration, part of the unit’s tactical operations center (TOC), was a new design put together days before the unit received it, and proved para- mount to Soldiers’ effectiveness in using the system.
“We fielded a completely new configura- tion kit, the TOC kit,” said Capt. Adam Schinder, commander of the Expedition- ary Cyber Support Detachment, 782nd Military Intelligence Battalion. “It was perhaps the most successful implementa- tion of the C-UAS solution. As a result of being statically configured and continu- ously monitored and plugged in, the unit found the TOC kits extremely successful.”
During the 3/1 CD’s rotation, ARCYBER embedded five Soldiers with the NTC’s opposing force who had the ability to attack the unit with their own “enemy” drones, thus providing more realistic training.
“Te system was able to give the supported unit situational awareness of drones that threatened the formation across a wide front,” Schinder said. “It alerted the unit
GREATER THAN THE SUM
A Soldier with ARCYBER’s Cyber Solutions Development Detachment – Georgia, 782nd Military Intelligence Battalion (Cyber), 780th Military Intelligence Brigade, shows James Serafin, with Tobyhanna Army Depot, how to assemble the cyber-enabled C-UAS prototype. “The RCCTO and Tobyhanna helped out with taking it from an advanced prototype and turning it into an engineering design model,” Patel said. (U.S. Army photo courtesy of Tobyhanna Army Depot)
to the presence of the drone, and then it provided automated force protection at the request of the operator. Simply put, we flew the drones, we deployed the devices and we successfully defeated the threat.”
CONCLUSION This phase-one cyber precision drone detection system will be followed by an upgraded phase-two version slated for delivery to the U.S. Special Operations Command for an operational assessment this summer. Phase two will maximize the capability’s operational life span by incorporating multiple software updates to improve performance. Both efforts will begin to help inform the Army’s overall requirements for cyber-based C-UAS.
Already, RCCTO and ARCYBER are coordinating with partners in the C-UAS community to optimize investments and share technical cyber approaches. Tey are also advancing new versions that are software-based for easy portability into mounted and dismounted C-UAS platforms.
“Ultimately, the momentum gained through this partnership will increase cyber integration into equipping efforts within the multidomain operations para- digm,” Dillon said. “It’s a great example of the type of partnership that can produce meaningful operational prototypes while setting conditions for transition to programs of record.”
For more information on the Army RCCTO, go to ht tps://rapid
capabilitiesoffice.army.mil/. For more information on ARCYBER, go to https://
www.arcyber.army.mil/. For more infor- mation on Tobyhanna Army Depot, go to
https://www.tobyhanna.army.mil/.
NANCY JONES-BONBREST is a public communications
specialist including multiple
She has written extensively about Army modernization and acquisition for several years,
training and
testing events. She holds a B.S. in journalism from the University of Maryland, College Park.
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for RCCTO.
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