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System-of-Systems: An NIE Experience and

The R&D "Use" of Propulsion Vehicles Workshops

July 16-18, 2013 ~ El Paso, Texas

TEST AND EVALUATION CAPABILITY FOR THREAT FAITHFUL EW TESTING

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PRESENTED BY

• Threat Systems Management Office (TSMO), Redstone Arsenal, AL

• Russell Ivey – Project Manager TSSP Operations, Maintenance

and Test Support with SRC (Scientific Research Corporation)

• Curtis Leslie – RF Design Engineer and Test Support Lead with

SRC

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THE MISSION

• The US Army NIE events create a realistic environment for evaluation of Systems Under Test (SUT)

• This environment includes use of these systems in a realistic operational environment

• Our combined team provides a threat faithful Electronic Warfare (EW) environment for the exercise

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THE ORGANIZATION

Army Test and Evaluation Command

(ATEC)

Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, & Instrumentation

(PEO STRI)

Project Manager for Instrumentation, Targets,

and Threat Simulators (PM ITTS)

Threat Systems Management Office

(TSMO)

Scientific Research Corporation

(SRC)

Operational Test

Command (OTC) NIE

EW Threat Team

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THREAT FAITHFULNESS

Validation

• Certify threat simulator to emulate specific threats

Accreditation

•Certify threat simulator to operate within specific test parameters

Test Planning

• Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures

• Range Scaling

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LIVE VIRTUAL CONSTRUCTIVE (LVC) DOMAINS

• Live assets exist in the real world and produce real world effects (RF, motion, etc.)

• Virtual simulators operate in a virtual world but with a human operator

• Constructive simulations are purely digital constructs

• The Threat Information Electronic Warfare Environment (TIEWE) and Integrated Threat Force (ITF) seek to operate in the LVC domains

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THREAT INFORMATION ELECTRONIC WARFARE - ENVIRONMENT

• TSMO is developing EW constructive simulations of its EW assets

• These models are hosted within the OneSAF simulation environment

• EW Jammer, Computer Network Operations (CNO), Direction Finding (DF), and Cellular Network models are being developed

• These models will interface with live hardware through the Integrated Threat Force (ITF) system

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INTEGRATED THREAT FORCE (ITF)

• Threat representative, scalable, command and control (C2)

• Visualization and collaboration tools for test planning, execution, and after action analysis

• Capable of integrating live, virtual, and constructive threat systems

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ITF NETWORK

THQ

CPV 2

NESTS-H4

NESTS-H5 NESTS-H6

WSMR Network

OPFOR TOC

AO WSMR

AO North Bliss

Ethernet

RS PAT-2

JS 30

AO South S-JS 4

CST-Comms

EB-6

CPV 1

JS 30

S-JS 6

CST-OAC

JS 34

Seus

Ft. Bliss Network

JS 6

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ITF VISUALIZATION

• ITF System tracks location of threat assets and SUT emitters

• Visualization can be used for mission planning and data analysis

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NETWORKED ELECTRONIC SUPPORT THREAT SENSORS-HIGH (NESTS-H)

• Detection of RF transmissions • Geolocates transmitters for mission planning

and electronic attack • Captures data for real-time and post mission analysis

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FOREIGN THREAT SYSTEM

• Communications jammer • Provides Electronic Surveillance Measures

(ESM) • User selectable modulation and bandwidth • Fast frequency switching

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WIDEBAND CONFIGURABLE CONTROLLED JAMMER (WCCJ)

• Frequency notching for removal of protected frequencies

• Two channels of jamming with multiple waveforms per channel

• Able to attack microwave, SATCOM, navigational and network systems

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CONTROL SIGNAL TRANSMITTER – OPEN AIR CAPABILITY (CST-OAC)

• Emulates multiple current and emerging threats

• Open air or injection jamming operations • Local or remote controlled operation through the ITF system

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INJECTION JAMMING

• Injection jamming couples a simulated threat jammer with a SUT receiver at the radio itself

• Allows for jamming techniques which are not allowed open-air on US ranges

• Remote Jamming Unit (RJU) scales input power based on received power of control signal

• Propagation losses of control signal mimic losses of jamming signal

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INJECTION JAMMING

SUT 1

SUT 2

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MOBILE COMMERCIAL NETWORK INFRASTRUCTURE TEST RANGE (MCNITR)

• Provides a closed loop cellular network with European standards

• 2G with voice, SMS and data • 3G with voice, MMS and data • WiFi hotspot capability • Simulated internet (LARIAT) on virtual servers

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QUESTIONS