{"id":562,"date":"2023-09-01T00:32:26","date_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=562"},"modified":"2023-09-01T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T00:32:27","slug":"cyber-quest-23-informs-cyber-and-electronic-warfare-program-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daily-bullet.com\/?p=562","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Quest 23 Informs Cyber and Electronic Warfare Program Managers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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FORT GORDON, Ga. \u2014 Environment matters when it comes to experimentation and analysis of capabilities for the Army. To determine how a piece of technology will perform on the battlefield, the right environment is needed that replicates many of the battlefield variables.<\/p>\n

In the electronic warfare and cyberspace \u2014 shortened as EW and cyber \u2014 communities, Cyber Quest is that environment. Developed with purpose, Cyber Quest is the perfect place for EW and cyber to experiment and analyze potential technologies that may make their way onto the battlefield one day. It\u2019s where Soldiers, industry and government partners come together for a common purpose \u2014 inform capability development in various portfolios including EW and cyber, areas not only critical to the Army but critical to the Program Executive Office, Intelligence, Electronic Warfare & Sensors \u2014 known as PEO IEW&S.<\/p>\n

This annual prototype assessment, now in its eighth year, explores industry innovations and captures Soldier feedback through a series of rigorous and objective experimentations to provide evidence-based results. Soldiers from the U.S., Australia and Canada took part in evaluating technologies this year.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cCyber Quest is about making sure the interaction between the science and the practitioners is at the right level,\u201d Maj. Gen. Paul Stanton, commanding general, U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence said during his opening remarks. \u201cWe take the state-of-the-art capabilities that industry and the scientific community have been working on and we refine them in accordance with what Soldiers tell us they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anyone within the EW and cyber communities will agree, things move incredibly fast and change constantly. To keep pace, events like Cyber Quest help inform the requirements documents and ultimately increase the rapid acquisition of EW and cyber capabilities.<\/p>\n

Members from the EW and cyber requirements and acquisition communities, as well as Soldiers, attend Cyber Quest to see what industry has developed and how those capabilities performed in the experimentations during a culminating distinguished visitors day event.<\/p>\n

Due to its focus, Cyber Quest has become the premier prototyping event for the Army, and feeds into larger Army technology assessments like Project Convergence.<\/p>\n

From a product manager perspective, \u201cCyber Quest allows us to see a broader perspective of what\u2019s going on in the [EW] community,\u201d Liz Bledsoe, Product Manager, Electronic Warfare Integration, explained. \u201cThere may be technology here we can use in some capacity in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond the technology results, networking with the community adds even more value to Cyber Quest. \u201cStakeholder relationships is important at our level,\u201d Bledsoe said. \u201cI met with our Canadian and Australian allies in attendance to catch up and talk shop. We operate alongside both countries often so it\u2019s important we keep those relations up.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bledsoe\u2019s work focuses on the Electronic Warfare Planning and Management Tool, or EWPMT, a commander\u2019s tool to remotely control and manage electromagnetic spectrum assets to execute offensive and defensive EW operations. At Cyber Quest, EWPMT was set up to receive data from the participating vendor products and was able to receive data as a result. \u201cExperimentations are great. Any of the data we get from Cyber Quest helps with the future of EWPMT,\u201d Bledsoe explained.<\/p>\n

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The experimentation aspect of Cyber Quest is fairly unique and can provide the acquisition community a look ahead. \u201cIf there\u2019s something really important, we see in the final results, could be positive or negative, it gives us insight on changes we need to make and where can we build the capability up to,\u201d Bledsoe explained. \u201cWe may identify aspects the Combat Capabilities Development Command, Command, Control, Communication, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Center or other science and technology organization could work through first and then we can pick up and implement it in two to three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

The experimentation component of Cyber Quest 23 also drives home an increasingly important aspect of software development \u2014 Soldier feedback matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you want good Soldier feedback, you have to show you value it in the first place by quickly integrating feedback into the next iteration of a product,\u201d Bledsoe said.<\/p>\n

She hopes to be able to take data from the experimentations and Soldier feedback back to her team to help them further develop and improve EWPMT.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis community is at the nexus of the science and the practitioners, new protocols, new kit, new antennas, new algorithms \u2014 aligning with our Signal, EW and Cyber Soldiers \u2013 this is our time at Cyber Quest to make sure things work,\u201d Stanton explained. \u201cWhat we\u2019ve done here at Cyber Quest informs future requirements and capability drops that we hand off to our Acquisition community to buy and build the equipment that\u2019s going to work the way we need it to. It does us no good to give Soldiers a piece of kit that is not going to function under the extreme circumstances of the operating environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

By Shawn Nesaw<\/em><\/p>\n

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