Electronic Warfare Cyber Advanced Technology

Mission — Electronic Warfare Cyber Advanced Technology source

This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates architectures, technologies, techniques, components, and tools to enhance Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) for Multi-Domain Joint Operations in tactical environments. These efforts aim to counter the adversary's Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Targeting (C-C5ISR&T) capabilities and plan, target, execute Cyber effects through the employment of non-traditional access and effect vectors against adversarial systems, communication networks, and decision centers to reduce the adversary's ability to execute command and control of its forces. Additionally, these efforts will protect tactical wired and wireless networks against modern cyber-attacks, focusing on configuration, operation, monitoring, data integrity, and defense in bandwidth constrained tactical environments while reducing the operator workload required to conduct these functions. This PE will mature and demonstrate key technologies that create windows of opportunity to provide significant operational advantage over adversaries. It will increase unit survivability and maneuverability and enhance the employment of non-kinetic effects in highly contested and congested electromagnetic environments. Work in this PE complements PE 0602376A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.

Mission — Autonomous Cyber Advanced Technology source

This project demonstrates defense capabilities against adversarial attacks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to evade detection and deceive the automated technologies supporting the network's defensive cyber posture.. This Project will provide defensive cyber operations (DCO) software tools for multi-domain operations and enable tactical network cyber defenders with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This project matures and demonstrates RF-enabled cyber approaches to Disrupt, Deny, Degrade, Destroy and Manipulate (D4M) adversary C2ISR systems and capabilities. Furthermore, in full alignment with ARCYBER "reprogrammability" efforts, field-based exercises will focus on demonstrating new methodologies for the development of EW/OCO effects that are more readily implemented, upgradable and portable across different Army platforms. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602276A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research) / Project A79 (Autonomous Cyber Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.

Mission — Electronic Warfare Cyber Advanced Technology source

This Program Element (PE) matures and demonstrates architectures, technologies, techniques, components, and tools to enhance Cyber and Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) for Multi-Domain Joint Operations in tactical environments. These efforts aim to counter the adversary's Command, Control, Computing, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Targeting (C-C5ISR&T) capabilities and plan, target, execute Cyber effects through the employment of non-traditional access and effect vectors against adversarial systems, communication networks, and decision centers to reduce the adversary's ability to execute command and control of its forces. Additionally, these efforts will protect tactical wired and wireless networks against modern cyber-attacks, focusing on configuration, operation, monitoring, data integrity, and defense in bandwidth constrained tactical environments while reducing the operator workload required to conduct these functions. This PE will mature and demonstrate key technologies that create windows of opportunity to provide significant operational advantage over adversaries. It will increase unit survivability and maneuverability and enhance the employment of non-kinetic effects in highly contested and congested electromagnetic environments. Work in this PE complements PE 0602376A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research). The cited research is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy.

Mission — Autonomous Cyber Advanced Technology source

This project demonstrates defense capabilities against adversarial attacks using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to evade detection and deceive the automated technologies supporting the network's defensive cyber posture.. This Project will provide defensive cyber operations (DCO) software tools for multi-domain operations and enable tactical network cyber defenders with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities. This project matures and demonstrates RF-enabled cyber approaches to Disrupt, Deny, Degrade, Destroy and Manipulate (D4M) adversary C2ISR systems and capabilities. Furthermore, in full alignment with ARCYBER "reprogrammability" efforts, field-based exercises will focus on demonstrating new methodologies for the development of EW/OCO effects that are more readily implemented, upgradable and portable across different Army platforms. Work in this project complements Program Element (PE) 0602276A (Electronic Warfare Cyber Applied Research) / Project A79 (Autonomous Cyber Technology). The cited work is consistent with the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering priority focus areas and the Army modernization strategy. Work in this project is performed by the Command, Control, Computers, Communications, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Center.

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