Cyberspace Operations Forces and Force Support

Abstract

Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE) supports the United States Cyber Command (USCC) by enabling the critical need for the DoD Cyber Mission Force (CMF) to train at the individual, team, and force level. PCTE provides the DoD CMF with a standardized training capability that maximizes shared content across the Services to include emulated network environments and has the ability to connect to other range environments and cyber training assets. The PCTE platform is aligned to the outputs of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition & Sustainment OUSD (A&S) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS) J6 led, "Cyber Range Evaluation of Alternatives (EOA) Findings and Issue Paper Deliberations," dated 17 November 2015. The Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) was designated as the DoD Acquisition Lead for the PCTE and the program is directed by the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act, Section 1645. With the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC) validation of the Information System - Capability Development Document (IS-CDD) on 4 November 2019, the PCTE program quickly achieved Milestone B on 6 December 2019. Through ongoing rapid prototyping efforts, the PCTE platform has fulfilled the critical need for a CMF standardized training capability upon release of PCTE Version 2 in Fourth Quarter Fiscal Year 2020, and continues to do so with ongoing version releases. FY 2023 PCTE funding will focus on United States Cyber Command (USCC) priorities within platform releases to include enhancing current capability fidelity while introducing additional features. Areas of planned feature updates and enhancements include CMF learning management system, assessment and readiness capabilities, cloud based cyber terrain replication, distributed platform consolidation, cloud migration, and infrastructure consumption model implementation. The PCTE platform will continue collaboration with all stakeholders within the Joint Cyber Warfighting Architecture (JCWA), and continue initial integration efforts across the JCWA portfolio as prioritized through USCC. The PCTE platform will maintain accreditations at all required classification levels to serve DoD CMF user training at the Unclassified, Secret, and Top Secret data classification levels. Platform infrastructure and licensing will be maintained to support the full DoD CMF user base.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0305251A_4_2040_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: FY2024 - Funding was moved to U.S. Cyber Command.
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Classification
• Contracts
• Cyberspace
• Cyberspace Operations
• Information Systems
• Infrastructure
• Models
• National Security
• Product Development
• Product Prototyping
• Prototypes
• Reliability
• Software Prototyping
• Test And Evaluation
• United States
• Verification Tests

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Cyber