By: Mark Pomerleau
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This is the 4th too concluding component subdivision of a serial detailing Army efforts to advance too integrate tactical cyber, electronic warfare too data operations inside traditional forces. Previous installments tin forcefulness out hold upward works life at part one, part two too part three. Through its recent Cyber Blitz exercise, the Army learned lessons regarding how good electronic warfare personnel tin forcefulness out comport cyber planning too how integrating electronic warfare too dot tidings would piece of occupation on the battlefield. Maj. Gen. John Morrison, the commanding full general of Fort Gordon, talks well-nigh the Army's role inwards the cyber mission force, grooming electronic warfare officers too more. On Oct. 1, 2018, all the functional electronic warfare personnel transferred into the cyber branch becoming cyber planners.
Despite questions whether these electronic warfare personnel volition hold upward able to programme cyber operations inside the cyber too electromagnetic activities (CEMA) cells across echelons, 1 official noted that their chore overall is non changing.
“Being the alone [EW career plain warrant officer] inwards the room, the 1 affair I wanted to emphasize is nosotros are converting to the cyber branch; however, nosotros are soundless electronic warfare professionals,” Chief Warrant 2 James Gill, Cyber Center of Excellence electronic warfare assessor at Cyber Blitz, told C4ISRNET during a view to the experiment.
The EW chore is non changing, he added. Rather, they volition cause got a foundational agreement of cyber too EW that volition let them to comport the planning, the integration too the synchronization, only similar the Definition of CEMA says.
The Army volition cause got cyber soldiers trained inwards a multitude of electronic disciplines.
The Army has defined an approach inwards which everyone volition cause got this foundation of EW too cyber, enabling a tactical cyber forcefulness that tin forcefulness out besides comport electronic warfare. The high-end folks volition feed into the cyber mission force, amongst the cyber warriors provided past times the services to USA Cyber Command to comport strategic score cyber operations.
(Signals) Intelligence versus electronic warfare
Despite friction inwards the past times over what constitutes tidings too what is necessary for battlefield commanders, the Army is instantly looking to converge signals tidings too electronic warfare, both of which residual on similar scientific principles.
Here's how the Army is fusing tidings too electronic warfare.
Cyber Blitz helped leaders assess this realization, evidence its integration inwards operations too allowed assessors to cause got valuable lessons back.
Cyber Blitz Director Richard Wittstruck told C4ISRNET that the Army published its nation of war machine intelligence-electronic warfare concept of operations, which was designed to convey the 2 closer together. For example, from the SIGINT perspective, how tin forcefulness out SIGINT back upward the electronic support/electronic gear upward on mission too vice versa, how does that mission assist too tidings collector refine their SIGINT collection?
Such concepts were gamed during Cyber Blitz amongst alive teams too alive capabilities on the base’s range. There were tidings too electronic warfare personnel rolling to an objective together, doing their respective mission essential tasks, but having a basic agreement of what the other 1 needed inwards gild to brand the objective happen, Wittstruck said.
With this convergence, the Army is instantly pushing integrated capability for these 2 forces to utilisation called the Terrestrial Layer System, which is soundless inwards the works. Despite the force for integrated capability, Gill noted that the focus of assessors at Cyber Blitz wasn’t on such an integrated arrangement or capabilities inwards general, but rather the concepts for how these forces tin forcefulness out operate together.
“We’re seeing actually where nosotros demand each other,” he said. “So the SIGINTers cause got away, ‘OK, this is what EW tin forcefulness out create for me too this is where I demand EW.’ EW takes away, ‘Well, this is why I demand SIGINT, this is why I demand them correct beside me helping me out amongst what I demand too this is what I tin forcefulness out create for them every bit well.’ ”
Overall, the integration worked fantastic, Gill said, adding it was the best he’d always seen.
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