CWMD Cross-Cutting Technical and Information Sciences
Abstract
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 on global emerging threats. Catapult allows DTRA to rapidly develop, engineer, test and deploy analytical tools, 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 Mission Information Technology (MIT) capability, with its embedded Combatant Command (CCMD), Capability Data Integrators (CDIs), 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 to users of their customized, mission-oriented tools and services. 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 data on improvised threats and worldwide threat actors. 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. This project also funds the Team for Analysis of Cyber Enterprise Operations and Networks (TACEON), which conducts market research as well as evaluates and coordinates commercially available or government-owned data technologies that can provide DTRA and its mission partners with an information advantage. TACEON will be used as an enterprise resource and not only provide services to the IT Directorate but also to other Agency IT stakeholders as well as mission partners in DTRA's quest to hone our data, information and knowledge technologies for worldwide mission support. TACEON will help with our evolution from a data to information and eventually to a knowledge centric organization. The project achieves transformational mission capabilities and postures the Agency to meet emerging mission requirements through innovative technology solutions and service upgrades, Knowledge Management (KM) and Business Intelligence (BI) solutions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- RA_0604551BR_4_0400_PB_2022
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