Assist Situational Understanding
Abstract
A. Mission Description and Budget Item Justification This project enables DTRA’s Catapult Information System Program to design, develop, test, and deliver mission capabilities that support the ability to aggregate, and analyze data and information on global improvised threats and threat networks. Catapult and DTRA’s Mission Information Technology (MIT) capability allows DTRA to rapidly develop, engineer, test and deploy analytical tools, threat models and simulations, data science methodologies, and software applications in support of the Warfighter. Catapult and its associated Attack the Network Tool Suite (ANTS) integrates data sources that support the detection and identification of improvised threats, threat networks and actors, command and control, operations, intelligence, and engagement for neutralizing, attacking, and defeating both current and emerging improvised threats and threat networks. DTRA’s MIT capability, with its embedded Combatant Command (CCMD) capability, data integrators, and reachback staff work continuously to create capabilities requested by users from the DoD, the Intelligence Community (IC), interagency partners, and the Whole of Government to ingest, fuse, analyze, and present mission relevant data and information. These capabilities reside in Catapult, a cloud technology-based data analytics platform developed and being delivered by DTRA that provides an extensible, continuously augmented, real-time repository of intelligence on improvised threats and worldwide threat actors and networks. Catapult is fully operational and accredited on the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) and Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System (JWICS). The Catapult architecture pulls from more than 850 data sources on SIPRNet and more than 170 data sources on JWICS. Catapult uses a set of more than 100 tools (ANTS) and services to provide national-level capabilities for data and information capture, discovery, access, aggregation, correlation, visualization, analysis, sharing, and distribution for users from the strategic level to the tactical edge. In addition to Catapult, the DTRA MIT created and deployed a significant capability called Voltron. Voltron provides analysts access to signals intelligence (SIGINT) data within a secure and IC-accredited software developer environment. Voltron provides users a single interface to query more than 25 data sources and combines results into dynamic visualizations and exports. Voltron captures analytics techniques and provides a constantly growing toolbox providing analysts with continuously new models in support of analysis and operations. Voltron provides analysts access to methodologies involving multi-INT fusion in an easy to use interface. These methods are based on years of experience supporting the tactical targeting environment and built in collaboration with other teams across the IC. There are currently more than 75 models in Voltron available to the user community. DTRA's authorities and mission have enabled a unique, Secure Development Operations (DevSecOps) “Path-to-Production” to rapidly develop and deploy mission- driven IT solutions. This unique development environment includes an integrated Cyber Security Assessment and Authorization process, an in-house collateral Authorizing Official for SIPRNet and DIA-approved Authorization to Operate on JWICS, creating a strong partnership between technologists and intelligence analysts working real-world problems, and a collaborative and innovative culture that launches practical software solutions rapidly.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- JS_0604134BR_4_0400_PB_2022
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