Air and Missile Defense Systems Engineering

Abstract

Funding in this program supports Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) efforts to conduct operational realistic assessments of Army Integrated Fires performance, identify system vulnerabilities, and develop mitigations against threats across the Cyber and Electromagnetic spectrum. Army radars and sensors, integrated air and missile defense mission command and fire control, Radio Frequency (RF) data and voice networks, and Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) technology will be assessed against current and postulated threat systems and techniques. Potential solutions developed by the Army, other Services, and Defense agencies (for example Missile Defense Agency) to close identified gaps will be demonstrated and assessed in live and simulated CEMA environments. Assessment events will be conducted approximately every two years. Implementation of potential solutions will occur between events using system-specific funding. The proposed solutions will then be assessed at the next event after implementation. Included in this line are funds to plan and execute periodic CEMA activities with Army Integrated Fires systems, to include other Service and other Agency radar and sensor systems as appropriate. Upon completion of CEMA demonstration analyses, funding will facilitate initial recommendations for potential mitigations and solutions to Army sensors, C2, and RF data link vulnerabilities. Efforts in this program will also develop tools for use by Army radar and sensor systems to improve overall system performance in contested environments, to include effects-based CEMA Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to assess Army CEMA concepts in Hardware-In-The-Loop (HWIL) environment. Additionally, virtual models of critical hardware and software are being developed and implemented to allow for destructive testing with advanced CEMA threats in a lab environment. There will be continual interface with intelligence communities to maintain cognizance of emerging CEMA threats and incorporate these threats in future CEMA demonstrations. These activities follow a time-phased roadmap that identifies the investments needed to improve the resiliency of Army radar and sensors, C2, and RF data and voice networks in contested CEMA environments. FY 2021 base funding of $26.482 million will be used to plan and execute the FY 2021 Survivability Exercise to assess the performance of the Army Integrated Fires architecture, with Joint participants, in a live, tactically relevant, contested CEMA environment. Funds will be used to analyze the performance data of the FY 2021 Survivability Exercise participant weapon systems, identify vulnerabilities, and develop rapid mitigation concepts. Additionally, the funds will be used to execute Cyber Table Tops, continue the development of virtualized critical hardware and software, conduct destructive cyber vulnerability assessments, and integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning into weapon systems to mitigate current and future CEMA threats. FY 2021 OCO funding of $.500 million will be used to complete operational assessment of ALPS prototype systems in support of a Combatant Commander. FY23 has no funding.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0603327A_4_2040_PB_2023
• Service Agency Name: Army

Entities

Organizations

• United States Army

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes
• Sensors
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data Links
• Defense Systems
• Electromagnetic Spectra
• Electronic Warfare
• Engineering
• Engineers
• Intelligence Community
• Machine Learning
• Product Development
• Radio Frequency
• Risk
• Supply Chain
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Vulnerability
• Weapon Systems

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• AI & ML
• AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy
• Cyber