WASHINGTON — The Navy plans to experiment with an info warfare cell at a maritime operations heart throughout an enormous train this yr, in line with a prime official.
The idea stems from the addition of data warfare composite commanders on the provider strike group degree, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Trussler, deputy chief of naval operations for info warfare, N2/N6, stated Wednesday on the C4ISRNET Conference.
Starting in 2017, the Navy created information warfare commanders at every strike group to behave as the focus for the strike group commander to combine disparate features of data warfare from electromagnetic spectrum to our on-line world to intelligence to oceanographic operations.
“I discuss to each strike group commander that involves the Pentagon; I ask him particularly, ‘How is that IWC [information warfare commander] idea working?’ Each considered one of them love their IWC and love that idea,” Trussler stated. “It’s labored out very nicely.”
As the knowledge warfare surroundings turns into extra advanced and extra necessary, the Navy desires to duplicate the tactical-level idea on the operational degree.
Trussler stated the Navy will experiment with these cells on the maritime operations facilities, which is the place the joint power maritime element commanders sit and the place the operational degree of battle takes place.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Michael Gilday has expressed the need to construct out new dedicated information warfare cells inside fleet maritime operations facilities, a mission that was supposed to learn by the outcomes from an train that was postponed final yr because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now, the Navy will experiment with the knowledge warfare cell at its Giant Scale Train scheduled later this yr, utilizing suggestions to additional consider the idea, Trussler stated.
On the finish of 2019, Gilday had famous that workouts would assist refine necessities and timelines for the knowledge warfare cells as a part of the budgeting course of for fiscal 2022.
“We predict it’s a robust idea. We predict it’s only a continued maturation of the knowledge age, and we have to handle that info in a different way, not solely with the instruments we’re going to develop, however with how we course of that within the decision-making of a commander and his workers,” Trussler stated.