Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Atlantic Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) SSC Atlantic is part of the Naval Research & Development Establishment (NR&DE)
Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Other Transaction (OT) IWRP Focusing on underlying technologies that advance Naval information warfare capabilities through a consortium that can support research, development and prototyping Enables rapid research for information warfare Prototype projects in the area of information warfare Increases access to innovative commercial solutions for defense requirements Fosters innovation with non-traditional industry partners Objectives Development of research data Innovation Rapid Prototyping and initial Fleet Fieldings Policies and Guidance IWRP OT OT Authority Flexible, streamlined acquisition tool Covered by 10 USC 2371 and 2371(b) to carry out research and prototype projects Warfighter Needs Emerging Technology Assessment Commercial & Investment Sector 2
IWRP Execution (Notional) Scope Cyber Warfare Data Science/Analytics Technologies Assured Communications Cloud Computing Enterprise Resource Tools Collaboration and Social Networking Autonomy Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded Systems Mobility Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) On-Demand Manufacturing Technologies that would enable and improve Assured Command and Control (AC2) Technologies that would enable or improve Battlespace Awareness (BA) Technologies that would enable or improve Integrated Fires (IF) Note: More in-depth description of each of these scope areas located in backup slides IWRP is an opportunity for the consortium members to identify research topics in addition to government identified research topics 3
Timeline (Notional) IWRP OT Program Announcement Solicitation N65236-18-R-0035 SSC Pacific/SSC Atlantic Joint Initiative $100M Execution Limit 3 Year Performance Period Reduce barriers to collaboration Award to Consortium or Consortium Management Firm IWRP Industry Day Brief, Draft PA and Q&A s posted on ecommerce: https://e-commerce.sscno.nmci.navy.mil/ 4
Technology Growth Areas - Descriptors Brief Description (Not Inclusive) Cyber Warfare Data Science/Analytics Technologies Assured Communications Cloud Computing Enterprise Resource Tools Collaboration and Social Networking Autonomy Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded Systems Mobility Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) On-Demand Manufacturing Defensive and offensive technologies used to operate, configure, control, secure, maintain, and restore the infrastructures and resident data, including IP networks, radio frequency (RF) networks, computer systems, embedded processors and controllers, process, and physical systems Includes technologies and technical processes enabling and enhancing the reliability, assurance, integration, interoperability, delivery, value of data and information assets. Data may be derived from diverse verticals (Combat, ISR, EMW, Cyber, etc.) includes specialized technology capabilities that capture, ingest, persist, analyze, and visualize data and help our customers perceive, visualize, and make decisions about their environment Technologies providing robust, protected, resilient, and reliable information infrastructure undergirding the Navy's overall information environment and allowing uninterrupted worldwide communication between deployed units and forces ashore. Technologies will include application in multiple transmission spectrums, including RF, millimeter wave, optical; networking technologies such as application awareness, resilient routing, and attack tolerance On-demand self service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, measured service, software as a service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Private Cloud, Community Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud Collection of computer programs with common business applications, tools for modeling, and development tools for building organization unique applications focused on solving enterprise-wide problems to improve the enterprise's productivity and efficiency Collaboration/Social interaction for sharing design patterns and best practices into our engineering culture, allowing social interaction to be aggregated, assessed, and pushed back into the supporting systems as structured data that can be used to support better decision-making. Covers techniques applicable to systems, incorporating assistants and decision support systems implemented through artificial intelligence and machine learning enabling them to adapt their actions to changes in their mission and operating environment without the intervention of a human operator Various connected sensors that can be accessed or controlled remotely across an existing network infrastructure, creating opportunities for more direct integration of the physical world into computer-based systems resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy, and economic benefit in addition to reduced human intervention; encompasses computer systems that performing a particular function within a larger system without direct human interactions Includes the wireless technology and infrastructure to connect and authenticate to the enterprise while enforcing enterprise specific security policies on mobile devices to access to enterprise data Technologies used to support the development, management, and application of virtual constructs of varying fidelity across the spectrum of systems engineering activities; including operational capability functions, system requirements, design, analysis, verification, validation, operations, and maintenance activities Additive and/or Traditional manufacturing methods ; ie Stereo Lithography (SLA), Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) Direct Metal Printing (DMP) Color Jet Printing (CJP), Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM). 3D Additive Manufacturing (AM) 5
Technology Growth Areas - Descriptors Brief Description (Not Inclusive) Assured Command and Control (AC2) Battlespace Awareness (BA) Integrated Fires (IF) AC2 is the ability of our naval commanders to exercise authority and direction over assigned and attached Navy and Joint forces in the accomplishment of a mission while access to and use of critical information, systems and services are denied, degraded or exploited. Sensing the environment, understanding our adversaries and operating and defending our communications and networked systems are inextricably linked to the assurance of C2. AC2 will require a more robust, protected, resilient and reliable information infrastructure that undergirds the Navy's overall information environment and allow uninterrupted worldwide communication. AC2 is enabled by essential network and data link services across secured segments of the electromagnetic spectrum to transport, share, store, protect and disseminate critical mission/combat information. Battlespace Awareness (BA) is the ability to have awareness of the environment and the status of adversary and friendly forces, yielding an interactive picture that provides timely, relevant and accurate assessments of friendly and adversary operations within the battlespace. understand the characteristics and conditions of the operating environment as it would relate to the disposition and intention of our force and an adversary force. BA will require enhanced and advanced means to rapidly sense, collect, process, analyze, and evaluate information content to exploit the operating environment. The understanding of the operating environment will serve as the basis from which nearly all decisions will be made, enabling our forces to more effectively maneuver and coordinate actions that engage and target enemy forces. Unique to BA are the decisions which require levels of synchronized Assured Command and Control (AC2) and Integrated Fires (IF) elements to provide characteristics and conditions ensuring the understanding of the operating environment and to effectively use AC2/IF elements to exploit the operating environment to our advantage. BA is aided by passive discrimination, identification and tracking of objects, persistent sensing and realtime/multi-spectral awareness, and cyber situational awareness within the operating environment. Integrated Fires (IF) is the ability to fully employ integrated information in warfare by expanding the use of advanced electronic warfare and offensive cyber effects to complement existing and planned air, surface and subsurface kinetic weapons within the battlespace. IF effects will be designed to impact and change adversary behavior, or when necessary, to control, manipulate, deny, degrade or destroy his warfighting capabilities. IF will use networks, cyberspace and space capabilities to achieve non-kinetic effects (active and passive discrimination) and kinetic effects (direct support to Fires) to exploit and attack the vulnerabilities of adversaries. IF will expand, in a deliberate and systematic methodology, both kinetic and non-kinetic weapons desired effects. IF is enabled by the use of advanced electronic warfare and offensive cyber effects to complement existing and planned air, surface and subsurface kinetic weapons within the battlespace. 6
Definitions of Prototype A prototype project can generally be described as a preliminary pilot, test, evaluation, demonstration, or agile development activity used to evaluate the technical or manufacturing feasibility or military utility of a particular technology, process, concept, end item, effect, or other discrete feature. Prototype projects may include systems, subsystems, components, materials, methodology, technology, or processes 7
Definitions of Prototype A prototype project may involve: a proof of concept a pilot a novel application of commercial technologies for defense purposes a creation, design, development, demonstration of technical or operational utility; or combinations of the foregoing, related to a prototype The quantity should generally be limited to that needed to prove technical or manufacturing feasibility or evaluate military utility 8