Information Warfare Support

Abstract

This Program Element funds research and development of information operations (IO) and intelligence capabilities required to execute counterspace and information operations in support of combatant commanders. Programs that are supported include the Information Warfare Planning Capability (IWPC), and Counterspace Intelligence Support. IWPC is a full-spectrum, offensive and defensive, planning capability. IWPC is an Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) weapon system component which will enable operators to develop strategic courses of action for the Joint Forces Air Component Commander (JFACC); create Air Operations Directives (AODs) and Joint Air Operations Plans (JAOPs); and nominate IO "targets" for inclusion into the Master Air Attack Plan and the Joint Integrated Prioritized Target List (JIPTL). This project funds the development and upgrades, testing and evaluation, and installation and training of an evolving suite of interoperable planning and decision support capabilities comprised of software, hardware, and communications products. This project will identify and implement an open, scalable system architecture that will accommodate growth as the virtual world grows and cyber operations change. The project builds functional software modules that are designed to be interoperable with C2 systems such as the Theater Battle Management Core System (TBMCS) and other AOC tools. The Counterspace effort provides intelligence support for key find, fix, track, target, engage, and assess (F2T2EA) requirements supporting counterspace activities and also performs developmental intelligence collection to support new capability acquisition and development. This project funds transportable intelligence collection and analysis capabilities that are modular (plug-and-play), and can keep pace with technological advances and emerging threats; intelligence support systems supporting Space Situational Awareness activities that provide the requisite current and predictive knowledge of space events and threat conditions; and, intelligence support to Space Protection Programs by providing architectural survivability analysis of critical mission assets for mission assurance. It also supports phased threat system Analysis and Studies (A&S), test support, lab equipment, and Material Acquisition and Exploitation (MAE) for new system development and vulnerability/susceptibility assessments to support tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) development, and future threat technology studies necessary for mission area success, the achievement of space superiority, and to preserve the US space advantage across all domains. This PE funds development and continued research to identify existing military and commercial efforts which can satisfy unfulfilled operational requirements for IO planning and integration. Activities also include studies and analysis to support both current program planning and execution and future program planning. This program is in Budget Activity 7, Operational System Development, because it studies, develops, and fields IO tools.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: 0208021F_7_3600_PB_2011
• Change Summary Explanation: Beginning in FY11, RDT&E in support of Intel Support to Counterspace is moved to PE 0301400F. The FY10 increase is due to $1.6M congressional add.
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• C4I
• Cyber
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Contracts
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Emerging Threats
• Information Operations
• Information Warfare
• Intelligence Collection
• Product Development
• Situational Awareness
• Space Operations
• Space Situational Awareness
• Test And Evaluation
• Threats
• Training
• Warfare
• Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

• Computer science
• Engineering

Readers

• Aerospace Engineering.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space