Threat Engineering
Abstract
Threat Engineering produces Acquisition Threat Evaluation Products (ATEPs) that are inputs to System of System requirements across Program Executive Office (PEO) Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS) platforms, elements, and DoD systems to deliver scalable fleet level performance capability. This program also produces critical, valid T&E assets that satisfy Commander Operational Test & Evaluation Force (COMOPTEVFOR) and Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) requirements as these same tools will be used to support and supplement test and evaluation and training against the assessed threats in both testbed and at-sea configurations, ensuring consistency between the development and T&E acquisition phases. ATEP is the surface navy cost effective, affordable, single, common threat modeling architecture that supports its Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP), (and other subordinate programs) RDT&E activities throughout the acquisition life cycle and extending through operations and sustainment. ATEP satisfies Life Cycle Mission Planning (LCMP) requirements by providing the threat modeling architecture needs to support systems engineering trade-off analysis, T&E (DT and OT) and operations and sustainment (OA) through testbed evaluation activities. ATEP is a critical component in ensuring requirements are achievable, affordable and testable. ATEP provides the required threat models to ensure fleet operational readiness against the threat. Specifically, ATEP Satisfies Operational Test (OT) and Operational Assessment (OA) requirements documented in COMOPTEVFOR ltr 3960 Ser 00/43 of 5 Jun 2018. This requirement specifies ATEP is necessary to provide the surface navy validated Anti-Ship Cruise Missile (ASCM) threat models for use in the M&S infrastructure supporting OT&E. Moreover, ATEP satisfies COMOPTEVFOR requirement that threat models must be at a fidelity commensurate with the blue-force system representations and contain intel-derived lethality/vulnerability data, physics-based six degrees-of-freedom models, reactive seekers and guidance, and other engineering data. ATEP is necessary to evaluate mandatory Key Performance Parameters including operational effectiveness, and suitability to include a systems lethality and survivability, and achieving its performance requirements within operation and sustainment costs. ATEP provides the threat models necessary to ensure the surface navy 1.) Avoids Technological Surprise and 2.) Eliminates Point Solutions. ATEP satisfies necessary Threat model requirements to conduct warfare systems analysis of alternatives including gaps analysis, and threat systems mission and performance analysis and effectiveness studies supporting both material and non-material solutions while supporting the development of Intelligence Community Tasking Threat. With Threat Engineering efforts and development of ATEPs the Navy and PEO IWS will produce substantiated risk and cost based Fleet Level Engineering decisions producing predictable and timely fleet capability against stressing threats. Scalable warfighting performance will be evaluated against the appropriate threat environment, using sufficient, verified and validated models applied to produce Fleet Level Engineering requirements and gaps analysis. Without Threat Engineering efforts and ATEPs the Navy and the PEO will incur unsubstantiated risk and cost in developing capability for the fleet. Scalable warfighting performance will not be evaluated against the threat environment, sufficient models will not be developed or applied to produce Fleet Level Engineering requirements and gaps analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 3238_0605863N_6_1319_PB_2021
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- Root: RDT&E Ship & Aircraft Support
- Child Accomplishment: Threat Engineering