Air and Missile Defense (AMD) Electronic Warfare
Abstract
Funding in this program supports efforts to assess Army Air and Missile Defense (AMD) performance and system vulnerabilities to threats from Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA). Army AMD sensors, Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) Command and Control (C2), Radio Frequency (RF) data and voice networks 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. Analysis of results and 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 AMD systems, to include other Service and other Agency AMD systems as appropriate. Upon completion of CEMA demonstration analyses, create concepts for mitigating Army AMD sensor, C2, and RF data link vulnerabilities. Efforts in this program will also develop tools for use by Army AMD systems to improve overall system performance in contested environments, to include effects-based CEMA Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to assess Army AMD CEMA concepts in Hardware-In-The-Loop (HWIL) environment. Collaboration is required with United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) Joint Electromagnetic Preparedness for Advanced Combat (JEPAC) to evaluate, modify, and field existing Army AMD EP Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) in a Joint environment. Additionally, there will be continual interface with intelligence communities to maintain cognizance of emerging CEMA threats and incorporate these threats in future CEMA demonstrations. An output from these activities will be development of a time-phased roadmap that identifies the investments needed to improve the CEMA capabilities of Army AMD sensors, C2, and RF data and voice networks. Funds in this line will also be used to transition the Army Low-Cost Portable Surveillance (ALPS) sensor from Science and Technology (S&T) into an emerging Program of Record (PoR). Initially, prototype systems will be provided to meet a Combatant Command identified need and to conduct an operational assessment. This program will also develop and integrate ALPS into the Army Integrated Air & Missile Defense (AIAMD) Battle Command System (IBCS) to improve the CEMA posture of the Army's AMD architecture. The objectives of this effort are to prove component and subsystem maturity in a system-of-systems environment and to reduce subsequent PoR integration risk.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2018
- Source ID
- FG9_0603327A_4_2040_PB_2018
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