Joint Mission Environment Test Capability National Cyber Range (NCR) Sustainment
Abstract
In FY 2013, responsibility for the National Cyber Range (NCR) was given to the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) and subsequently aligned under the Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) Program Element. The NCR was funded in FY 2013 through funds provided by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E), Assistant Secretary of Defense (Research & Engineering)(ASD(R&E)) reprogramming, and the TRMC investment programs. In FY 2014, the NCR was funded from the JMETC Program Element. The NCR provides secure facilities, technology, processes, and workforce to rapidly create hi-fidelity, mission representative cyberspace environments and facilitate integration/federation of cyberspace test and evaluation (T&E) infrastructure in support of the TRMC Mission. It supports a diverse user base and accommodates a wide variety of event types (R&D, Developmental Test & Evaluation (DT&E), Operational Test & Evaluation (OT&E), Security Control Assessor (SCA) Compliance, Defensive Cyber Operations (DCO), Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO), Tactics, Techniques Procedures (TTP) Development, Forensics/Malware Analysis) and communities (research, systems engineering, testing, operations, training, etc.). The NCR has the capability to support up to 4 concurrent events at different classification levels using Multiple Independent Levels of Security (MILS) architecture. It is accredited to operate at TS//SI-G/TK/HCS-P//SAR. In support of a variety of customers, the NCR has emulated complex (Red/Blue/Gray) operationally representative network environments at a scale up to ~40K virtual nodes. The NCR can operate in conjunction with other ranges through remote connectivity via Joint Information Operations Range (JIOR) and JMETC connectivity infrastructure. The NCR’s Test Automation Tools minimize human error, enable verification of test environment, ensure repeatable results and can reduce event timelines from weeks/months to hours/days. Range assets can be sanitized after exposure to malicious attacks/malware to restore exposed systems to a known, clean state. The Cyberspace Environments provisioned at the NCR support multiple customers with testing and training objectives including Research and Development, Science and Technology, Systems engineering, Test and Evaluation and training and experimentation. The NCR enables acquisition programs to conduct Cybersecurity Test and Evaluation (T&E) in a representative Cyberspace Environment to identify and close exposed vulnerabilities, evaluate resiliency and positively impact program cost, schedule and performance. The NCR also supports Training and Certification of Cyber Mission Forces in support of US Cyber Command by enabling operational forces to efficiently evaluate cyber warfighting capability in a realistic joint mission environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 200_0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2017
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- Root: Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC)
- Child Accomplishment: Joint Mission Environment Test Capability NCR Sustainment