AFIWC support to AF Battlelabs

by 2nd Lt. John Mizell

AFIWC/SAA

Kelly Air Force Base, Texas

The Air Force Information Warfare Center stands ready to provide support to Air Force Battlelabs. The center is uniquely positioned to provide a broad spectrum of information operations support activities that cut accross almost all of the mission areas the battlelabs are designed to support.

Besides being able to provide the battlelabs technical expertice, the center will also play a major role as a location for modeling and simulation activities and as a focal point for information protect and computer security.

The center's systems analysis directorate is ready to provide quantitative analysis through modeling and simulation of offensive and defensive U.S. Air Force command and control warfare/information warfare systems capabilities and vulnerabilities.

One model, developed by the C2W analysis division, is the C2W analysis and targeting tool. CATT can provide the battlelabs with the ability to more effectively test a potential C2W concept's ability to corrupt an adversary's decision cycle by accurately simulating the capability of the adversaries system.

The CATT model has a control screen and at least one Integrated Air Defense System command screen. The control screen shows the ground truth for the IADS scenario, similar to the picture at left, and with the flight paths overlaid.

The Integrated Air Defense System command screens depict what a red (hostile) operator would see in the IADS structure.

CATT is currently a prototype model and is being expanded to model the IADS of several countries. Analysts will be able to examine any country of interest by incorporating the country's tracking algorithms and IADS structure.

EA's major contributions to the Information Warfare Battlelab include expertise, facilities and equipment, concepts and ideas, and support to field demonstrations and exercises. Thus far, Engineering Analysis have provided personnel to stand up the Information Warfare Battlelab and will matrix additional personnel to support specific defense information warfare-related Mitchell Battlelab Initiatives and Kenney Battlelab Initiatives.

Another area the center will be able to support the battlelabs, especially the Information Warfare Battlelab, will be with test facilities and equipment.

One of the major objectives of the battlelabs is to borrow, lease, and utilize (not duplicate) existing facilities and equipment.

This is an IMOM (Improved Many-On-Many) of Bosnia. IMOM visually displays the complex interaction of multiple ground based radar systems acted upon by multiple airborne ECM aircraft. These models detection capabilities of radar with the effects of radio wave propoganda, Stand-Off Jamming and Self-Protection Jamming platforms.

The Engineering Analysis test facility is dedicated to furnishing a complete and technically advanced testing environment. The test facility contains many different computer platforms, operating systems, modems, servers, printers and switches.

The Air Force Information Warfare Center stands ready to help the Air Force's six battlelabs with their modeling and simulation needs.

Retrun to July 97