Threat Simulator Development

Provides the Opposing Force (OPFOR) Commander and Staff with situational awareness of the Battlefield and Command, Control and Communications (C3) of threat systems across a dedicated communications network. Develops Army Threat Network and Mission Command capabilities to include quantum computing techniques, use of adaptive RF transmissions, self-healing/mesh network, capabilities aimed at masking threat communication systems (Very High Frequency (VHF), Ultra High Frequency (UHF), and High Frequency (HF), satellite and cellular, and next generation tactical radios.

Develops Army Threat Electronic Warfare (EW) capabilities that will simulate a realistic anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) environment that will portray critical threats to U.S. DoD satellite communication, navigation, and command, control, and communication (C3I) networks. Develops specific EW capabilities to include cyber/EW convergence, tailored jamming in a complex radio frequency (RF) environment (air and ground), data spoofing, detection of Low Probability Intercept (LPI) waveforms, artificial intelligence (AI), network modeling, passive detection systems, and advanced electronic support systems such as Angle of Arrival (AoA) and Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) against LPI signals. Develops and prototypes Threat Electronic Support systems by leveraging state-of-the-art commercially available Software Defined Radio (SDR) technology incorporating AoA, TDoA, and/or Frequency Difference of arrival (FDoA) and integrates emerging processing techniques to include Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. Provides a relevant and realistic threat battlespace environment inclusive of advanced ground and aerial sensor systems, low power ground surveillance systems, and other threat sensor systems employing non-RF applications (acoustic, seismic, and electro-optical/infrared). Integrates advanced sensor capabilities with existing threat Unmanned Aerial System and threat command and control systems. Develops and prototypes Threat Electronic Attack (EA) systems by leveraging state-of-the-art commercially available SDR technology to develop jammers that function against numerous System Under Test (SUT) operating on the full RF spectrum. Provides jamming capabilities up to 40 GHz in order to target satellite uplinks, Threat Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT), exploitable systems for Cyber & Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA), and a threat environment required for Multi-Domain Operations (MDO) using ground based and aerial platforms. Develops jammers capable of Digital Radio Frequency Memory across the spectrum to enable advanced threat replication. Develops and prototypes a threat tactical communication replication effort that will leverage state-of-the-art commercially available SDR technology to present realistic signatures and Electronic Order of Battle for the SUT. This system will cover threat tactical communication ranging from High Frequency to Super High Frequency. The Common Tactical Signal Emitter Program (CTSEP) will leverage intelligence community models to provide realistic, threat representative, signatures. Assets will be able to emulate tactical command and control nodes and mounted and dismounted tactical communications systems by emitting threat representative waveform signatures. Develops an affordable, common set of radar threat emitters based on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) SDR technology to create a realistic RF signal dense threat environment for MDO. Provides an affordable, common set of RF emitters needed to establish Tactical Communications and Gray-Space environments based on COTS SDR technology. Provides validated radar and communications digital models for use in a Live, Constructive, and Virtual environment as determined by Army Test & Evaluation Command (ATEC) to support Developmental Tests and Operational Tests for numerous SUT. Develops high fidelity threat digital twin models to support Army Operational and development testing. These models are utilized to produce validated threat waveforms and also utilized to adjudicate the effectiveness of Blue Forces Electronic Attack (BFEA). Finally, these models will be utilized in a virtual/constructive environment to augment the quantities of live threat simulators required.

Provides cyber red team personnel and Information Operations (IO) weapons, Command and Control (C2), infrastructure, and research for advanced threat capabilities targeting Army programs, systems, and commands. Provides funds for cyber training and certifications of on-net interactive operators, certified ethical hackers, mission leads, planners and logistics. Threat representative sensing of public and commercially available information used for simulating near-peer information warfare threats against Army systems. Access to real-time Internet flow information used for characterization of near-peer threats and the application of this information to Army targets. Provides rapid creation and employment of robust, validated Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) threat, Multi-Domain Operations (MDO), and commercial representative cyber and non-kinetic warfare environments. Provides Foreign Materiel Acquisition and Foreign Commercial Purchase of Army, Joint, other Services, and Other Government Organizations hardware and software. Increases capacity of support to 200+ Dev*Ops and MDO events annually. Information and Decision Advantage Threat Simulation simulates threat's ability to leverage and act on publicly and commercially available information across the conflict continuum. This threat simulation provides the Army with measurement data towards effectiveness of program protection and Operational security (OPSEC) processes and provides valuable input to Army measure and countermeasure development priorities and execution.