Cyber Capabilities Support Office (CCSO)

Abstract

Mission Description. The Cyber Capabilities Support Office (CCSO) within the Air Force Concepts, Development, and Management (SAF/CDM) Office is partnered with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NMT) to develop the Playas Training and Research Environment (PTRE) at the NMT. This team will: develop a vision and strategy for Multi Domain Operations at the PTRE, facilitate build-out of a research and experimentation environment supporting evaluation and development of Full-Spectrum Multi-Domain Operations from Cyber, Cognitive, Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA), to include Terrestrial and airspace through space domains. The development team will also design and develop an "Operator in the Loop” research methodology enabling researchers to evaluate research hypotheses via access to operational platforms to simultaneously conduct integrated training and exercise events. Additionally, the team will establish and re-engineer business processes and usher programs/projects from conceptualization through transition to operational and Service components. Detachment (Det) 1, HQ 55th Wing (WG) provides Information Warfare integration and organizational oversight for operations, training, and infrastructure build-up of PTRE. Budget Item Justification The NMT in conjunction with the Cyber Capabilities Support Office, and Det 1 HQ 55th Wing is developing an environment at the Playas Training and Research Environment (PTRE) to advance DoD Information Dominance capabilities and effectiveness in support of the National Defense Strategy by replicating a multi-domain, information warfare combat environment for simultaneous operations, cyber enabled kinetic operations, or physically enabled cyber operations, while reducing the research-to-operational fielding timeline. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver weapon system capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program 0304369F. In PY $0.317 M was expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element, and in CY $0.000 M is forecasted for civilian pay expenses in this program element This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes (ACD&P), because efforts are necessary to evaluate integrated technologies, representative modes or prototype systems in a high fidelity and realistic operating environment.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0304369F_4_3600_PB_2024
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Contracts
• Cyberspace Operations
• Data Acquisition
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Information Warfare
• Military Research
• National Security
• New Mexico
• Product Development
• Supervisory Control
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Warfare
• Weapon Systems

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space