Information Related Capabilities (IRC)

Abstract

Signature Management (SIGMAN): SIGMAN supports the goals of Force Design 2030 by providing tools that enable an expeditionary force to conduct distributed operations and produce mass effects while minimizing their own blue-force (friendly force) electromagnetic (EM) signature. This includes the capability to conduct blue-force signature assessment, blue-force signature planning, and advanced delivery of mass effects. SIGMAN is being developed in three increments. SIGMAN Increment I is the SIGMAN Visualization and Planning Tool (SVPT), which will provide commanders a display of their own force's EM signatures and the information needed to limit/mitigate their signatures. SIGMAN Increment II is the Radio Frequency (RF) Generator - Light and SIGMAN III is the RF Generator-Heavy. Increments II and III will provide commanders the tools needed to mitigate blue-force signatures. SIGMAN will be utilized by the Marine Corps Information Operations Center (MCIOC) SIGMAN platoon to provide commanders with the ability to understand their own forces' electromagnetic signatures and the ability to disrupt or deceive adversary units. Full development of SIGMAN capabilities is a key enabler to the Marine Littoral Regiment operating in contested signature environments where small maneuver elements must move, communicate, and survive while conducting Distributed Maritime Operations. Digital Media Systems (DMS) (formerly Public Affairs Systems (PAS)) is the result of the Combat Camera and Public Affairs Occupational Fields (OccField) transitioning into the COMMSTRAT OccField in 2018. DMS provides the Marine Corps and the Joint Force with deployable systems to support Operations in the Information Environment (OIE), non-lethal fires, and the battle of narrative efforts. DMS supports the Fleet Marine Force (FMF) to be more lethal, survivable, and sustainable when conducting emerging maritime and warfighting concepts against competitor threats. The program maintains an evolutionary approach to acquisitions and leverages commercial industry-standard non-developmental items to provide the best value to the Marine Corps, while keeping Communication, Strategy and Operations (COMMSTRAT) Marines appropriately equipped to understand and affect the information environment. This effort supports research, testing, and evaluation of the Tactical Imagery Production System Next Generation (TIPS NG) to provide the FMF with the means to acquire, process, edit, develop, disseminate, transmit in near-real time, archive visual information (VI) products, and provide reprographics print speeds in support of Marine Corps missions across the competition continuum. The Military Information Support Operations (MISO) Family of Systems (FoS), which consists of the Fly-Away Broadcast System (FABS), Next-Generation Loud Speaker (NGLS), Radio-In-A-Box (RIAB), and Marine Corps SOF Integration Node (MSIN), provides the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Commander the ability to plan, develop, deliver and assess messages and actions to influence select foreign groups and promote themes to change those groups' attitudes and reduce civilian interference, minimize collateral damage, and increase the population's support for MAGTF operations. The MISO was established in response to multiple Marine Requirements Oversight Council Memorandums, and the approval of a MISO Organizational and Operational (O&O) Concept, 16 June 2015. MISO capabilities are critical to the success of the MAGTF mission, enabling commanders to shape the information environment, counter enemy propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, and adversarial narratives.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 3772_0206313M_7_1319_PB_2023

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• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
• Irregular Warfare and Special Operations Cyberspace Operations against Adversarial Threats.
• Maritime Combat Support and Expeditionary Logistics.