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The Tactical Cryptologic Systems in this budget will implement digital system-of-systems engineering by using tools such as Model Based System Engineering (MBSE) and Digital Twins to create adaptable digital models to optimize system engineering from design, development and testing to operations and sustainment. Programs will use Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) processes for continuous development, integration, testing and deployment, along with common platform services such as Agile Core Services (ACS), for faster fielding of capability. Overall program development efforts include the investigation of emerging technologies through study, development and associated testing for feasibility of program insertion. The Shipboard Information Warfare (IW) Exploit project consists of the Ship's Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) Family of Systems (FoS) Increment F (and variants), Spectral, SSEE Modifications, as well as the Integrated Communications and Data Systems (ICADS) Increment II. These programs are classified Information Warfare/Electronic Warfare (IW/EW) tactical cryptologic systems supporting Command and Control, Battlespace Awareness, Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare/Integrated Fires (EMW/IF) modes of global engagement. The systems enable power projection at the strategic level, operate in any environment including communications challenged situations across the globe, and provide offensive Electronic Warfare (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 FoS 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 managed as incremental acquisition programs designed to pace adversary communications technology development by using Research, Development, Test and 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. They 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). ICADS is a mission critical system providing advanced simulation capability for naval platforms as well as back-up communications capabilities. Additional details for these programs held at a higher classification level. Horizon and Distributed Operations (DO) delivers the Navy's Integrated Fires capability solution via Afloat/Shore across all operational domains required to meet the Great Power Competition (GPC) high end threat. Horizon provides the initial Battle Management Aids (BMA) vital to plan and execute offensive and defensive IW in the Electromagnetic (EM) spectrum and physical space. DO as the follow-on to CLASSIC REACH provides the enabling sea/shore infrastructure needed to expand assets on a Distributed Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) Operations (DSO) grid. The development and engineering effort is intended to fulfil Department of Defense (DoD) level capability requirement voids for shipboard cryptologic systems including SSEE and Spectral. Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) is a cooperative effort between the services, agencies, and the DoD to provide systems capable of receiving, processing, exploiting, and disseminating data from airborne and national reconnaissance platforms. DCGS - Navy (DCGS-N) is the Navy instance of the Under Secretary of Defense, Intelligence (USD (I)) DCGS FoS. DCGS-N system fulfills a critical mission set Afloat and Ashore. DCGS-N processes and exploits tactical and Imagery Intelligence (IMINT) and SIGINT, facilitates precision target geopositioning, mensuration, and imagery capabilities, integrates national IMINT requirements and processing capabilities from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), and shares Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance, and Targeting (ISR&T) and Command and Control information via the DCGS Integration Backbone (DIB), Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (DI2E), and Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) standards with a wide range of customers. The DCGS-N program conducts research and assessments of tactically relevant, emerging technologies program insertion to ensure superiority in the intelligence domain. Intelligence Carry-On Program (ICOP) provides Indications and Warnings (I&W), battlespace awareness/visualization, pattern of life analysis, Full-Motion Video (FMV) and Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) capabilities in support of Unit-Level Navy surface (CG, DDG, and LPD classes) and expeditionary operations. The ICOP system includes a three-eyed ruggedized workstation that serves as a powerful afloat edge computing device that is capable of operating on all three security domains (NIPR, SIPR and JWICs) and an antenna/receiver set (called Communications Module 3 - CM3) that is used to ingest, process and exploit airborne sensor data. In addition to supporting multi-intelligence capabilities, ICOP/CM3 provides an end-to-end ISR PED architecture that includes processing organic shipboard camera systems to support Navy-wide Operational Task (OPTASK) Visual Information (Strategic Communications - "First to the Truth," pattern of life analysis and use of force/rules of engagement decisions). The Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) project is a portfolio of partnerships that leverages the investments of other agencies in MDA tools and data, and funds the enhancement of those tools to meet Navy requirements for worldwide over-the-horizon vessel tracking and vessel data in support of DCGS-N, Navy Tactical Data Manager (NTDM) and Automated Information System (AIS) program. The MDA project manages the partnership with the Department of Transportation to leverage the Maritime Safety and Security Information System (MSSIS) and SeaVision, a non-Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) information sharing tool used by United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM), European Command (EUCOM), Africa Command (AFRICOM), other USG agencies, and foreign partner nations to increase maritime security by sharing information. SeaVision's track picture is founded on commercially procured AIS data, with additional data from commercial geospatial data, and data contributed by partners such as costal AIS and costal radar. SeaVision is primarily accessed through a web front end where users can visualize tracks and run a growing set of analytics. SeaVision also has Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for machine-to-machine data exchange with authorized systems including the Navy's AIS. SeaVision was initiated by the Executive Agent for MDA office, which has since disestablished. The MDA project manages the partnership with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) to leverage the THRESHER Maritime system, which provides over-the-horizon vessel tracking and analysis tools. The MDA project is working with NRO to enhance THRESHER Maritime capabilities to produce a correlated and fused track feed over the Integrated Broadcast Service and to provide THRESHER on both JWICS and SIPR net. Completion of these enhancements results in the decommissioning of legacy MDA tools SeaLink Advanced Analysis (S2A) and Analytic Collaborative Environment-Maritime (ACE-M). The MDA project manages the sustainment of SeaLink Advanced Analysis (S2A) which provides a correlated and fused surface track picture known as the National All Source Fused Track Service (NAFTS) data feed via the Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS), which provides a track picture to IC systems including Fusion Analysis and Development Effort (FADE) Multi-Intelligence Spatial Temporal (MIST) and THRESHER Maritime. S2A began as a Joint Capability Technology Demonstration at Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in 2007 and transitioned in FY21 to the MDA project. The MDA project manages the partnership with Distributed Common Ground System-Intelligence Community (DCGS-IC) for the classified cloud environment hosting of S2A and ACE-M until those system's capabilities are subsumed by THRESHER Maritime. The Cryptologic Carry-on Program (CCOP) rapidly develops augmented SIGINT capabilities in response to Combatant Command requirements by fielding quick-reaction surface, subsurface, and airborne cryptologic carry-on capabilities. 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 tempo of operations. In addition, numerous other Naval and Coast Guard platforms serve as other potential users. Tactical Edge Targeting is a collection of existing National Technical Means (NTM) and organic sensors that are fused and disseminated through existing networks in real-time to enable an enhanced tracking and targeting capability. The Army, Navy and Air Force are developing longer range weapons that will require reliable and accurate targeting data to detect, classify, identify, and target adversaries. Leverages existing large sensor investments across the U.S. Government (USG). Enhances tracking against hard targets in denied environments and maintains ability to securely communicate with these sensors in real-time. The United States Navy (USN) plans to integrate existing NTM and planned new sensors with existing service architectures to provide a low-cost, resilient, real-time tracking and targeting capability to supplement existing sensors. Due to the nature of these projects, specific applications and detailed plans are available at a higher classification level.

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Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
Source ID: 0304785N_5_1319_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation: TECHNICAL: Project 2134: Shipboard IW Exploit - Beginning in FY 2022 Horizon and Distributed Operations (DO) will deliver the Navy's Integrated Fires capability solution via Afloat/Shore across all operational domains required to meet the Great Power Competition (GPC) high end threat. Horizon provides the initial Battle Management Aids (BMA) vital to plan and execute offensive and defensive IW in the EM spectrum and physical space. Distributed Operations (DO) as the follow-on to CLASSIC REACH provides the enabling sea/shore infrastructure needed to expand assets on a Distributed SIGINT Operations (DSO) grid. SCHEDULE: Project 2134: SSEE Inc F - Beginning in FY 2022 Horizon and Distributed Operations (DO) will deliver the Navy's Integrated Fires capability solution via Afloat/Shore across all operational domains required to meet the Great Power Competition (GPC) high end threat within the SSEE Inc F and Spectral programs. - SSEE INF F, Joint interface development was extended from Q4FY20 to Q3FY22, in accordance with the schedule. - Nex-Gen Chassis shifted from Q2FY21 to Q3FY21, in accordance with the schedule. - NSA Afloat (Large Deck Development) will complete Q4FY22 vice Q4FY24, in accordance with the development schedule. - FY21 Full Rate Production (FRP) shifted from Q2FY21 to Q4FY21, in accordance with the contract schedule. Project 2134: Spectral - Beginning in FY 2022 Horizon and Distributed Operations (DO) will deliver the Navy's Integrated Fires capability solution via Afloat/Shore across all operational domains required to meet the Great Power Competition (GPC) high end threat within the SSEE Inc F and Spectral programs. - Spectral Milestone B shifted from Q1FY21 to Q3FY21, in accordance with the schedule. - Spectral Production Representative Article (PRA)/ Engineering Development Model (EDM) ashore shifted from Q2FY22 to Q1FY23, in accordance with the schedule. Project 2134: SSEE MODS - FY 2021 Full Rate Production (FRP) shifted from Q2FY21 to Q3FY21, in accordance with the contract schedule. Project 2134: ICADS - ICADS DT/OT Demo milestone was added in Q4 2022, in accordance with the schedule. Project 2174: Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) - Beginning in FY 2022 action closes out DCGS-N INC 1 Studies and Design and transfers it to INC 2. Project 2227: Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) Increment 2 - Beginning in FY 2022 program is transitioning from Fleet Capability Releases (FCR) to Iterative Releases (IR) to better align to Acquisition Strategy (AS). Additional integration test events have been included to support each IR. FUNDING: The FY 2022 funding request was increased by $27.3M from PB21 to PB22 to account for increases in Horizon, Spectral, and Tactical Edge Targeting (TET) with a decrease of $-1.5M account for the availability of prior year execution balances and $-5.1M for other minor adjustments. Program Element 0304785N funding increased (+$28.176M) from FY 2021 to FY 2022; Major increases/decreases noted below: Project 2134: Spectral (+$11.528M) - FY 2022 increase and realignment of (+$7.297) from Other Procurement, Navy (OPN) to RDT&E will support multiple Radio Frequency (RF) aperture development and interface efforts, as well as topside antenna development to meet multi-mission needs, shore and ship testing, and to complete studies, development, and integration to realize increased frequency band operability. In addition, funds will be used to procure additional hardware components and equipment, to include long-lead item topside components which together with below deck equipment, make up complete afloat and ashore PRA systems. Lastly, the increase of funding will focus on identifying and validating a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deliver (CI/CD) pipeline on the Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) enclave. Project 2134: SSEE Modifications (-$2.075M) - FY 2022 decrease results from completion of VPX integration and testing to support Common Core Architecture (CCA) strategies and Anti-Access Area Denial (A2AD) testing and integration into the host system in FY 2022. Project 2134: ICADS Inc II (-$4.547M) - FY 2022 decrease is attributed completion of most major development work including baseline system development and Radio Frequency (RF) aperture integration. Project 2134: Horizon and Distributed Operations (DO) (+$18.700M) - FY 2022 increase will deliver Horizon Capabilities through accelerated Distributed Ops (DO). Project 2227: Distributed Common Ground System-Navy (DCGS-N) Increment 2 (+$4.352M) - FY 2022 increase is due to the initial application deployment modernization utilizing containerization and Agile Core Services (ACS) to provide more frequent application. Project 3786: Tactical Edge Targeting (TET) (+$0.804M) - FY 2022 increase will commence Navy Integrated Fires Element (NIFE) tools transition to NRO cloud.
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