Intel Command and Control (C2) Sys

Abstract

INTELLIGENCE COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2): includes Military Intelligence Program (MIP) funds for Marine Corps Intelligence capabilities necessary to support the employment of intelligence, reconnaissance, surveillance (ISR), and target acquisition resources integral to delivering decision advantage at the speed of operational relevance outlined in the National Defense Strategy. Enables key Marine Corps Force Design capabilities for both Force Design initial operational capability (IOC) and full operational capability (FOC). This capability involves sensing the operational environment through a variety of systems, from satellites overhead to reconnaissance Marines on the ground. COMMUNICATION EMITTER SENSING and ATTACKING SYSTEM (CESAS). This is a Marine Corps Force Design program. CESAS II FoS is the USMC high power, back-packable, team portable, and ground mobile electronic warfare (EW) asset employed by Radio Battalion trained Signals Intelligence Electronic Warfare (SIEW) operators capable of supporting electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) dominance against a peer threat. CESAS supports the MAGTF commander in the execution of his EW operations and information operations, by detecting, denying, and disrupting hostile communication emitters across a broad range of communication frequencies. CESAS covers the high frequency (HF), very high frequency (VHF), and ultra-high frequency (UHF) frequency ranges against enemy emitters using modern modulation schemes. CESAS allows flexible employment to conduct EW while on the move or in a stationary position, thus optimizing the commander's ability to employ this asset for the greatest success of the mission. CESAS addresses Force Design shortfalls in EW and disruptive, less-lethal capabilities appropriate for countering malign activity by actors pursuing maritime gray zone strategies. An increase to the CESAS II FoS Authorized Acquisition Objective (AAO) in support of Force Design 2030 initiatives equips SIEW Teams to the infantry battalion, and Radio Reconnaissance Teams (RRTs), Light Armored Vehicle - Electronic Warfare (LAV-EW), Marine Corps Forces Special Operations (MARSOC) and the Support Establishment with modern electronic warfare (EW) systems capable of countering peer threat systems. CESAS uses an incremental acquisition strategy, providing technical refresh for legacy systems as the systems become obsolete and/or require technology insertions to maintain pace with our adversaries. CESAS also includes Advanced Electronic Warfare Digital Payload (AEWDP), Spectrum Services Framework (SSF), and Constructive Electromagnetic Operational Environment System (CEMOES). AEWDP provides the MAGTF a modular, scalable, and transportable EW system able to exploit and disrupt enemy command and control, and intelligence surveillance reconnaissance in an anti-access/area denial environment using non-traditional attack vectors. SSF is a Services Oriented Framework enabling the Electromagnetic Operations Cell to perform its mission by providing a critical open backend framework for rapid development of software services and applications across real-time and historical Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS) data to support mission planning and execution of Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO) and Cyberspace Operations across the MAGTF's Operational Environment. CEMOES provides an organic, unit-employable capability that creates a realistic operational frequency environment for multiple occupational fields to perform full electromagnetic spectrum home station training. The Marine Corps affirms with a high degree of confidence that the programs in this line item are executable. INTEGRATED BROADCAST RADIO (IBR). This is a top critical Marine Corps Force Design program. IBR is a family of terminals that provide direct, over-the-air access to the Integrated Broadcast Service (IBS) and receive and process near-real time (NRT) multi-intelligence data from strategic, theater, and tactical sensors to include: Theater Missile Defense indications and warnings, target tracks, and battlefield awareness information to the tactical user and long-range Fires platforms. IBR terminals conform to the Department of Defense (DoD) objectives of interoperability and commonality to receive and process multi-intelligence data. Able to operate receive-only for critical emissions control, IBR terminals adhere to the 38th Commandant's Planning Guidance and is essential to Force Design 2030 by providing the Marine Stand-In force with low signature, tactical, and affordable capabilities that support Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations, and Distributed Maritime Operations in a fast paced, widely dispersed, peer-threat maritime operating environment. The IBR program is an evolving, multiservice architecture designed to keep pace with Commanders' targeting and information requirements, currently accomplished using the universal serial bus (USB) Embedded National Tactical Receiver (ENTR) version 2 (V2) and the ENTR version 4 (V4) which provides a 50% weight reduction and doubles the life expectancy of the battery compared to the USB ENTR V2. Additionally, IBR is instituting Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency (PACE) Plan requirements identified in the Joint Requirements Oversight Counsel (JROC) approved IBS Enterprise Information Systems - Capability Development Document (IS-CDD). IBR terminals provide connectivity to IBS Common Interactive Broadcast and IBS Alternative Path via UHF satellite communications (SATCOM) channels. The IBR program is also planning a transmit capability to deliver USMC sensor data to the IBS. TACTICAL SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE (SIGINT) COLLECTION SYSTEM (TSCS). This is a Marine Corps Force Design program. TSCS provides modular, lightweight, and team portable/body worn systems and components that provide signals intercept, collection, direction-finding (DF) precision geo-location, reporting and collection management capability in the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF). TSCS contributes to the MAGTF's Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) capability, enables Electronic Warfare (EW), and lethal strike capabilities; and provides the disruptive and less-lethal capabilities appropriate for countering malign activity by actors pursuing maritime "gray zone" strategies that is desired in the 38th Commandant's Force Design 2030. These capabilities enable Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) by supporting operations to both locate and target more advanced threat communications technology. The TSCS Family of Systems (FoS) incorporates the Radio Reconnaissance Equipment Program (RREP) and Team Portable Collection Systems - Multi-Platform Capable (TPCS-MPC) programs into a single program, providing a modular and scalable suite of equipment that exploits information from more technically advanced target sets. Platform Integration Kits (PIK) allow Marines to utilize equipment from the TSCS FoS, on USMC tactical vehicles and the MV-22 to provide Precision Geolocation (PGL) capability which enables Marines to locate specific signal emitters with much higher levels of accuracy and enables precision targeting. The TSCS FoS has an incremental acquisition strategy, providing technical refresh for legacy TPCS-MPC and RREP systems as the systems become obsolete and/or require technology insertions to maintain pace with our adversaries. SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION COMMUNICATIONS (SCI COMMS) is a Ultra-High Frequency multi-band satellite communications Family of Systems (FoS), that provides a tactical capability at the Top Secret (TS)/SCI and Secret Collateral levels to USMC intelligence units. The SCI COMMS FoS is the only deployable communications system that is dedicated for TS/SCI data and voice communications that can receive, transmit, and disseminate bulk data and imagery products to and from national tactical intelligence sources. It supports Force Design 2030 by enabling a resilient, federated system of networks to ensure all elements can fight in a degraded command and control environment. The FoS consists of palletized, team level, and mobility pack (previously referred to as man-packable systems) - High Bandwidth Special Intelligence- Palletized Terminal (HBSI-PT), and Sensitive Compartmented Intelligence Kit (SCIK) - which provide USMC tactical commanders with high-capacity, near-real-time access to intelligence from national agencies, joint, coalition service activities, intelligence producers, and other tactical units via connectivity to Sensitive Compartmented Information Network (SCI NET), National Security Agency (NSA) Network, coalition networks, and Secret Internet Protocol Router Network. TERRESTRIAL COLLECTION provides a tactical sensor Family of Systems (FoS) organic to the MAGTF ground and maritime reconnaissance elements to facilitate near-real time Persistent ISR (PISR) sensing to MAGTF decision makers and users. Sensors are networked to enable the sharing of standard data, support of Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations, and information to support all Marine Corps warfighting functions (Command and Control, Intelligence, Operations, Protection, Fires, Maneuver, and Information) with targeting and battlespace awareness. An array of sensor delivery methods and a variety of sensor characteristics enable operational forces to sense in air, land, and maritime environments to determine threat location, disposition, movement and direction. The Terrestrial Collection Systems portfolio includes Ground Based Operational Surveillance System (GBOSS), MAGTF Secondary Imagery Dissemination System (MSIDS), and Tactical Remote Sensor System (TRSS). GBOSS is an expeditionary, ground-based, self-contained, multi-spectral sensor-oriented, persistent surveillance system used to observe, collect, detect, identify, classify, track, and report on contacts, objects of interest, and assessed threats twenty-four hours a day utilizing a fused video and sensor data display. MSIDS provides organic tactical digital imagery collection, transmission and receiving capability to the MAGTF Commander. TRSS provides all-weather multi-modal sensing, location determination, targeting, and tactical indications and warning of enemy activity in the MAGTF Commander's Area of Interest. Starting in FY-21, the program focuses on providing a next generation Family of Persistent Sensors Advanced Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS) as the successor to the legacy TRSS. COUNTER INTELLIGENCE and HUMAN INTELLIGENCE (CI/HUMINT) EQUIPMENT PROGRAM (CIHEP) provides the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) with an integrated, standardized, and interoperable suite of information and communication systems. The CIHEP program provides specialized equipment that is lightweight, modular, and tailorable, in deployable packages to conduct full spectrum, tactical CI/HUMINT activities, to include technical operations. The technical side of CIHEP operations use techniques to detect, neutralize, and exploit hostile technical surveillance technologies and hazards that permit the unauthorized access to or removal of information. CI/HUMINT elements are generally task-organized in support of a MAGTF or other supported commanders, providing them the capability to rapidly collect, process, and disseminate counterintelligence and human intelligence information in support of military planning and operations. CIHEP is comprised of commercial and government off the-shelf equipment. Different components are selected for refresh each year to maintain current capabilities and ensure interoperability and standardization with related systems. This results in an equipment suite that enhances the operating force's CI/HUMINT capabilities, while maintaining interoperability within the USMC and joint CI/HUMINT communities. The modularity of the CIHEP program allows Marines to perform a variety of missions in support of commanders, while carrying only those items necessary to accomplish the mission. CIHEP provides state-of-the-art mission critical information protection capabilities, as well as the ability to detect, identify, and locate specific technical threats.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 2272_0206625M_7_1319_PB_2022

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Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
• Microelectronics
• Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems
• Space
• Space - Satellites