College of Aerospace Doctrine Research and Education New

College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education New & Emerging Technologies IW-270

Overview • Changing Environment • New & Emerging Technologies • Air Force Battle Lab(s) • Conclusion

Changing Environment • • • Accomplish mission Minimum of injuries and loss of life Three distinct environments – Earth – Space – Cyberspace • Need for information is driving technology

The Future • Data rates increasing exponentially • Knowledge of the universe increasing • Pace is increasing • Cost is staying down • Commercial needs drive technology

New & Emerging Technologies • • Quantum Computers Intelligent Software Virtual Reality Intelligent Materials Radiation Weapons Bio-technology Human/Computer Interfaces • • Mind Control Micro-technology Lasers Millimeter-wave Cameras • Video Insertion • Non-Lethal Weapons

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Quantum Computers vs

Artificial Intelligence Software Agents/Munitions • • Really Smart Weapons Intelligence Collection Indications & Warning Information Overload • Bad Decisions • Loss of valuable information • Too much reliance • Lack of bandwidth

Virtual Reality • Unlimited training scenarios • Almost realistic • Increase readiness • Lower cost • Safer • Environmentally friendly • Still not reality

Intelligent Materials • Battle damage repair • May lose desirable characteristics • Equipment (stealth) inspection • Susceptible to other • Camouflage threats

Radiation Weapons High Energy Radio Frequency (HERF) Gun

Radiation Weapons • Little or no loss of life • No physical collateral damage • We use electronic devices too • Distinguishing between targets • Collateral effects

Bio-technology • Give the human body more capability – Stronger – Faster – Better eyesight – Better hearing • Susceptible to other threats • Expensive • Maintenance

Human/Computer Interfaces • Eliminate interfaces • Susceptible to other • Faster reaction threats times • Increase productivity

Mind Control • Bloodless battles • Affect friendly or neutral population • Used for malicious purposes

Micro-technology • • Reconnaissance Surveillance Tagging Targeting Communications Weapon system Security • • • Communication links Power limitations Denial of service

Lasers • • • Retinal displays • Widely proliferated Weapons Communications Rangefinder Designator Chem/Bio agent detection EO/IR countermeasures Laser radar Laser propulsion

Millimeter-wave Cameras • Situational awareness • 24 -hour coverage of the battlefield • Better view of the enemy

Video Insertion • Alter enemy’s broadcasts • Deception • Public perception • What’s real? What’s not?

Non-Lethal Weapons • Little or no loss of life • No physical collateral damage • Distinguishing between targets • Collateral effects

Air Force Battle Labs AEFB Mt Home, ID UAVB SB Eglin, FL Schriever, CO C 2 B Hurlburt, FL FPB Lackland, TX IWB Kelly, TX • Small groups--focused on operational and tactical issues

IW BL Mission MAJCOMs NAFs Ops Units Customers Information Rapid Global Superiority Global Mobility Attack Air & Space Precision Air and Space Power Engagement Superiority Agile Combat Support Advance Core Competencies PSYOP Deception Destruction EW Security Info Attack IW Disciplines Industry MAJCOMs Doctrine Ctr Battlelabs Ops Units Suppliers Influencing Doctrine & Tactics to Organize, Train, and Equip Forces

What the IWB IS: A capability for innovations in IW to be rapidly discovered, developed, and/or demonstrated through warfighter interaction with new tactics, techniques, procedures and technologies that may affect AF doctrine and strategy; focused at operational and tactical levels of war. O B J E C T I V E S • Enable operator feedback • Accelerate fielding of IW advancements and technologies • Select “best of breed” concepts and capabilities • Exploit opportunities for technology insertion • Propose new capabilities, architectures, tactics and doctrine Principal Customers: AF Warfighters -- MAJCOMs, NAFs, IW Flights, Network Control Centers, and Doctrine Center

IW Data Support for Remote Users (IW Reachback) • Connect remote users with SCI data using existing low-cost satellite relay • Army incorporated system into Miniature Data Acquisition System (MIDAS) • Electronic System Center evolved system into S-band Tactical Automated Receive terminal (STAR) • Migrated into the Tactical Data Processing System (TDPS)

Sensor Guard • Secret and SCI level intelligence reachback capability for globally deployed force protect units via existing networks • Electronic mail, message traffic, voice connectivity • Standard office automation software and hardware

IW Visualization & Integration Platform (Cyberwarrior) · Impact – Increase situational awareness for AOC CC – Rapidly Identify IW opportunities – Determine most efficient use of assets – Protect most critical friendly nodes

Network Attack Visualization STATUS RAMSTEIN AB LOCATION PROFILE ASSESSED TARGET STATUS RAMSTEIN AB AB RAMSTEIN ADMIN LAN PROBE (e) RSCAN ASIM v. 2 CAMS PROBE (e) ELMENDORF AFB CAMS PROBE (e) LANGLEY AFB ASIM v. 2 CAMS PROBE (e) M. HOME AFB ASIM v. 2 UNK PROBE (e) ROBINS AFB DATA ASIM v. 2 CANNON AFB COPS WCCS PROBE (e) SHAW AFB ASIM v. 2 CAMS PROBE (e) PERSONNEL DB PROBE (e) CAMS PROBE (i) SPANGDAHLEM AB COPS AB TRAVIS AFB SHOW ASIM v. 2 ALL PROBES DATA ATTACKS CDS ASIM Monitoring Screen huge amounts of data Correlate similar information Discover similarities between events Easy viewing techniques Advanced analysis visually depicted SPIRE or STARLIGHT Data Visualization

Network Attack Visualization Network Early Warning System (NEWS) IMPACT STATUS RAMSTEIN AB LOCATION RAMSTEIN AB AB RAMSTEIN CANNON AFB ELMENDORF AFB LANGLEY AFB M. HOME AFB ROBINS AFB SHAW AFB SPANGDAHLEM A AB TRAVIS AFB B SHOW PROFILE ASIM v. 2 RSCAN ASIM v. 2 COPS ASIM v. 2 ALL ASSESSED TARGET ADMIN LAN CAMS UNK WCCS CAMS PERSONNEL DB CAMS STATUS PROBE (e) PROBE (e) PROBE (i) PROBES ATTACKS · Concept Demonstration: · Identify unusual network activities at each AF site · Determine correlation between unusual events · Provide list of indicators of potential IW attacks · Impact: · Detect onset of a potential IW attack · Allow for development of better security measures, intrusion detection methods, and recovery techniques

Reconfigurable Electronic Warfare Avionics Parts (REWRAP) Multi purpose re-configurable cards EXPECTED RESULTS: - Increased deployability - Single logistics trail - Fewer types of spares needed - Reduced cost per unit - Possible common use of parts (within a system or systems)

Software Agents for OPSEC UNCLASSIFIED Related systems throughout the World UNCLASSIFIED on UNCLASSIFIED Discussion System A UNCLASSIFIED THREAT SYSTEM DISCUSSIONS UNCLASSIFIED CHAT ROOM UNCLASSIFIED Technology Developments UNCLASSIFIED System A Developments UNCLASSIFIED u Use Intelligent Agents to collect, analyze and correlate web data u Identify possible OPSEC problems u Continuous monitoring

More Concepts • Miniaturized Global Positioning System Jammer – GPS jamming of our adversaries from a low cost, easily deployed and concealed battery-power unit • Signal Analysis Mapping (SAM) – An anomaly prediction system that allows aircrews to better discriminate between threat and non-threat emitters • Voice Optimal Interrogation and Characterization Environment (VOICE) – Rapidly digitize, translate, visualize voice communication collections

Experiments • Information Assurance (IA) Tools experiment to synchronize planning and development efforts among CINCs, Services, and Agencies • Participants: – Joint Battle Center – Army, Navy, and AF IW Battlelabs – JIOC – DISA • Benefits: – Identified IA tools for the near term – Described standard IA toolkit for the JTF – Preparation for Expeditionary Force Experiment

Future Challenges • • Increase Information and System Protection Greater play in Joint Exercises/Experiments Integrate Information Attack functions Seek Opportunities to Make the IO Force More Effective and Lethal • Improve Information Available to Customers • Explore Initiatives With Broader Operational Impact

Bottom Line • • High-tech tools are readily available We have to stay ahead of our adversaries Information Warfare is not about technology Information Warfare is about exploiting technology “Dominating the information spectrum is as critical to conflict now as occupying the land or controlling the air has been in the past. ” Gen Fogleman, AF Chief of Staff