Tactical Cryptologic Systems

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The Shipboard Information Warfare (SIW) line includes the Ship's Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Family of Systems (FoS) which include Increment E, Increment F (and its variants), Spectral and Modifications, as well as the Integrated Communications Data System (ICADS) Increment I and Increment II. These programs are classified Information Warfare (IW) / Electronic Warfare (EW) tactical cryptologic systems supporting Command and Control, Battlespace Awareness, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare / Integrated Fires (EMW/IF) modes of global engagement. These systems enable power projection at the strategic level in any environment including communications challenged situations (previously referred to as Anti-Access, Area Denial (A2AD)) across the globe and provide offensive EW capabilities at the tactical level, ensuring surface vessels ability to disrupt, deny, degrade and defeat adversary (state and non-state) use of the radio frequency spectrum while simultaneously providing advanced Information Related Capabilities (IRC) to maritime warfighters. SSEE systems detect adversary radio frequency emissions and use them to provide critical tactical and strategic intelligence, situational awareness, and hostile threat assessment depriving the adversary of enhanced signals exploitation capability and limiting their ability to counter strike. The systems are incremental acquisition programs designed to pace adversary communications technology development by using Research, Development, Test & Evaluation (RDT&E) funding to rapidly develop and transition new technologies and provide new capabilities as Pre-Planned Product Improvement (P3I) upgrades into the system's hardware/software configuration via a net-centric Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). Funding will focus on developing and delivering expanded offensive IW / EW and future Cyberspace capabilities in accordance with Presidential direction and in support of multiple Operational Plans (OPLANS) and communications challenged scenarios. ICADS Increment II is a mission critical system providing advanced simulation capability for naval platforms as well as back-up communications capabilities. Additional details for these programs are held at a higher classification level. The Advanced Cryptologic Systems Engineering The Distributed Common Ground System - Navy (DCGS-N) is the Navy's portion of the Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence (USD (I)) DCGS Family of Systems (FoS). The Department of Defense (DoD) has defined a DCGS architecture that will be compatible and interoperable across all of the Services' Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems and operations. DCGS accesses and ingests data from spaceborne, airborne, subsurface, and surface ISR collection assets, intelligence databases and intelligence producers. This collected data is shared across a joint enterprise using the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB) and in time, the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E) to enhance access and sharing of ISR information across Joint forces through the use of common enterprise standards and services. DCGS FoS supports Joint Task Force (JTF)-level and below combat operations with critical intelligence for battle management and information dominance across the full spectrum of operations, including peace, conflict, war, and Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO). DCGS is a cooperative effort between the services, agencies, and DoD to provide systems capable of receiving, processing, exploiting, and disseminating data from airborne and national reconnaissance platforms. DCGS-N core components include the analyst workstation from the Global Command and Control System (GCCS) - Integrated Imagery and Intelligence (I3), Generic Area Limitation Environment (GALE) Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Common Geo-positioning Services (CGS), Image Product Library (IPL) or Information Store (iSToRE), Modernized Integrated Database (MIDB), Joint Concentrator Architecture (JCA) and Track Management Services (TMS). The DCGS-N system represents the integration of 1) The processing and exploitation of tactical and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and SIGINT; 2) Precision target geopositioning, mensuration, and imagery dissemination capabilities; 3) Selected national IMINT requirements and processing capabilities from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA); and 4) Sharing of Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (ISR&T) and Command and Control information via DIB, DI2E, and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) standards with a wide range of customers (e.g., Global Command and Control System - Maritime (GCCS-M), Joint Mission Planning System (JMPS), and many others). The DCGS-N system efforts include investigation of emerging technologies through study, development, and associated testing for feasibility of program insertion. The DCGS-N Enterprise Node (DEN), which incorporates current DIB standards and DI2E policy, facilitates interoperability and data sharing among the DCGS FoS. DCGS-N ensures compliance with the DoD DCGS network architecture. The Navy is establishing an ISR Enterprise way ahead that will emphasize a reach back strategy to provide intelligence products to support deployed ship and shore operations. The Navy will also migrate to a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) that requires the integration and testing of a Maritime ISR Enterprise capabilities, migration of ISR applications to a SOA environment, and integration to leverage a Common Computing Environment (CCE) and the Intelligence Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE). DCGS-N will also become the focal point for migration of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) fusion and analysis Maritime Fusion & Analysis (MFAS) tool applications for the Navy. Additionally, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) funding supports development and integration efforts to fuse Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (ISR&T) data collected, exploited and disseminated by ISR systems with other intelligence data and automatically provide to shipboard combat systems to support kinetic (bombs, mortars, missiles, bullets) and non-kinetic fires (electronic attack, lasers, cyber-attack) and more effective exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum. ISR systems will play key roles in enabling the national-to-tactical integration necessary for an integrated maritime targeting capability in support of kinetic and non-kinetic fires. Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) Increment 1 is the Navy's current in service DCGS ISR&T program of record. The system is actively used by Navy force level ships and shore sites in support of the mission. DCGS-N Increment 1 is currently performing technical refreshes to Windows 10 (WIN 10) per the Department of Defense's initiatives while enabling the long-term transition to DCGS-N Increment 2. Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP) is a suite of multi-source intelligence and analytical capabilities which includes an integrated Three-Dimensional (3-D) operational picture displaying intelligence and other data sources to provide a richer and more complete picture of the battle space on Unit Level platforms. The system supports a full motion video capability that receives, processes, exploits, and disseminates organic and non-organic data as well as the ability to process and correlate Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) and external Communications Intelligence (COMINT Externals). It integrates mature Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) and Government Off-the-Shelf (GOTS) applications with shared storage and communication paths to reach back to the DCGS-N Enterprise Node (DEN), and to provide data sharing to the Maritime Operations Centers (MOC) and national ISR systems, making tactical users a part of the larger ISR enterprise. DCGS-N Increment 2 addresses a critical shortfall in Tasking, Collection, Processing, Exploitation, and Dissemination (TCPED) capability and capacity to support operational, tactical planning, and execution across the full range of joint military operations. Existing TCPED shortfalls will be exacerbated by planned Navy, Joint, and Allied fielding of new ISR platforms. Currently fielded systems provide localized processing capabilities that will be overwhelmed in future years without a significant change in the way the Navy processes, exploits and disseminates intelligence data. DCGS-N Increment 2 will perform quick and affordable integration of emergent transformational COTS and GOTS technologies in support of information warfare and overall efforts required to pace the threat. DCGS-N Increment 2 will deliver all source fusion and analytical capabilities; provide MDA capabilities and integrate TCPED capabilities to improve the use and analysis of sensor and platform data. DCGS-N Increment 2 will be based on an enterprise solution to share this information across commands, services, and agencies to promote shared situational awareness. DCGS-N Increment 2 consists of multiple releases. The first release (Fleet Capability Release 1 (FCR-1)) provides an enhanced Navy ISR enterprise that converges and builds on the DCGS-N Increment 1 Enterprise Node; leverages the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E); is compliant with the Common Computing Environment (CCE) and the Community Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE); federates ISR and TCPED workflow and production; exploits new and evolving unmanned systems sensor data; provides Multi-Intelligence (Multi-INT) cross-queuing and modular tools. The second release (Fleet Capability Release 2 (FCR-2)), enhances afloat ISR capabilities by providing a set of software centric tools providing Multi-INT fusion and analysis, behavior prediction and intelligent knowledge management designed to operate in disconnected or denied communications environment. The third release (Fleet Capability Release 3 (FCR-3), enhances embedded training to include new modified capabilities, automatic exploitation of motion imagery, ability to define, detect, and display anomalies, ability to observe entities with target list items, fusion of observation reports to detect non-emitting vessels, enhanced alerting and enterprise connectivity detection. DCGS-N Increment 2 will insert new technology enhancements via incremental software & hardware upgrades and deliver as annual build release. Follow-on releases will be developed based on Fleet requirements. The Cryptologic Carry-on Program (CCOP) rapidly develops and fields state-of-the-art signal acquisition capabilities in response to Combatant Command requirements for a quick-reaction surface cryptologic carry-on capability. There are 124 cryptologic capable surface ships and shore sites in the current Navy inventory; each of these is a potential user of this carry-on equipment, depending on deployment schedules and the tempo of operations. In addition, numerous Navy and Coast Guard platforms are other potential users. In FY 2020, SSEE Increment F (and its variants) will continue to develop, refine, and test new, unexplored and unexploited signal and cyber capabilities and integrate solutions to incorporate other Navy development investments to enhance the Fleet's ability to dominate and defend cyberspace mediums, insert new technology enhancements via incremental software and hardware upgrades and to deliver as required to maximize system effectiveness. Specifically, Increment F will continue development in support of software and hardware development for VITA 49 / VPX Next-Generation Chassis to deliver advanced capabilities in a dynamic environment while integrating hosting services to platforms, bringing an enhanced modular, mission-tailorable system infrastructure specifically required for National/Tactical integration. Funding will also finalize development for solutions intended to meet Joint interface and compliance standards (4.X). SSEE Increment F also continues to integrate capabilities able to operate in communications challenged environments into the system configuration. In FY 2020, Spectral will continue acquisition, logistics, test planning, and contracting activities, while beginning development and engineering of capabilities and subsystems to be incorporated into Engineering Design Models (EDMs) required under Fleet Capability Release - 1 (FCR-1). FY 2020 for SSEE Modifications supports continued hardware and software development to bring advanced capabilities to the Fleet for simultaneous detection, collection, processing, electronic warfare and display of communication intelligence data from hostile, high threat and adversary platforms in select extended frequency ranges not prosecuted today. It will continue development to integrate designs to bring advanced signal processing to the Next Generation-GRAYWING capability while migrating to meet future industry backplane standards to align with Common Core Architecture (CCA) strategies. In FY 2020, Integrated Communications and Data Systems Increment II (ICADS Inc. II) will support EDM - 1 development, testing and demonstration of system capability running in accordance with Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMPACFLT) requirements as well as all the necessary technical, acquisition and contracting documentation to bring additional EDM's. In FY 2020, DCGS-N Increment 1 will continue development, integration and regression testing required to remain aligned with national imagery standards to be incorporated into technology refreshes for Win 10 upgrades. In FY 2020, Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP) will commence integration and testing events in support of F35 Block 3 and Triton. In addition, ICOP will perform interoperability testing with new capabilities such as minotaur and project maven to align with Integrated Fires (IF) / Electromagnetic Warfare (EMW) concepts. In FY 2020, DCGS-N Increment 2 will award a Contract that will support the Government LSI for integration, assembly and test of commercial items, COTS, and GOTS components procured for the DCGS-N Increment 2 baseline. Currently this support is provided on several task orders on several contract vehicles. This contract will consolidate that work into a single contract to cover integration of capabilities in FCR-3 through Fleet Capability Release 5 (FCR-5), and ensure Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) Increment 2 interoperability with the DCGS-N Family of System (FoS), the multi-service and Intelligence Community DCGS FoS, and the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) system. DCGS-N Increment 2 will install one (1) unit for Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E). DCGS-N Inc 2 will complete integration of Fleet Capability Release 3 (FCR-3) and conduct an In Progress Test Review and Integrated Test of the FCR-3 build including rigorous cyber security testing. DCGS-N Increment 2 will continue to integrate a standard software baseline for the DCGS Family of Systems (FoS). DCGS-N Increment 2 will begin planning for Fleet Capability Release 4 (FCR-4) including developing the Requirements Definition Package (RDP), preparing for the Build Technical Review and Build Decision. DCGS-N Increment 2 will continue Passive Targeting Efforts leveraging Office of Naval Research (ONR) Electromagnetic Battle Management (EMBM) Future Naval Capabilities (FNC) to network and fuse Passive Targeting Data. Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) funding supports development and integration efforts to fuse Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Targeting (ISR&T) data collected, exploited and disseminated by ISR systems with other intelligence data and automatically provide to shipboard combat systems to support kinetic (bombs, mortars, missiles, bullets) and non-kinetic fires (electronic attack, lasers, cyber-attack) and more effective exploitation of the electromagnetic spectrum. Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (ISR) systems will play key roles in enabling the national-to-tactical integration necessary for an integrated maritime targeting capability in support of kinetic and non-kinetic fires. In FY 2020, Cryptologic Carry On Program (CCOP) will continue to integrate, test, and document identified COTS and GOTS technologies and subsystems that meet emergent and on-going Fleet requirements as specified in the SOI and target threat list, as well as, continue to develop upgrades to existing systems and subsystems according to Fleet requirements. Funds aid the development of new signal processing algorithms and software based solutions to enable rapid transition of capability to permanently installed SSES systems, including SSEE Family of Systems (FoS) and its variants, the research of self-contained small form factor systems for Patrol craft and other small units, and the research of Adaptive Mission Modules for rapid insertion to counter specific threats or provide intelligence in specific areas of operation. More details are available at higher classification.

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Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2020
Source ID: 0304785N_5_1319_PB_2020
Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2020 funding request was reduced by $1.736M to account for the availability of prior year execution balances. The funding increased from FY 2019 to FY 2020 by $49.843M due to the PE consolidation, which transferred funding from PE 0305208N Project 2174, PE 0305208N Project 2227, and PE 0204574N Project 3091 into PE 0304785N. Additionally, there was an increase from FY 2019 to FY 2020 of $8.548M due to support Spectral EDM development for both shore and afloat based systems and to support creating a Development Operations environment.
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