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SAN DIEGO -- The Navy’s Shore and Expeditionary Integration Program Office (PMW 790) hosted a three-day working group for users of Navy shore and expeditionary systems in San Diego July 19 – 21, 2016.
The theme for this year’s working group focused on “Shaping the Future,” because collaboration between various type and acquisition commands is critical to solving the complex problems of updating or replacing legacy systems within various operational environments.
“We have found ourselves relying on legacy systems because they allow us to remain interoperable with our international mission partners,” said Executive Director, Mr. John Pope III, Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I). “Speed to capability is important because we need to be able to upgrade these legacy systems while remaining interoperable.”
During the three-day working group speakers from PMW 790 and PEO C4I, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR), Commander, Naval Air Forces (CNAF), Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM), Commander, Naval Information Forces (NAVIFOR) and others shared their views of the current and future state of shore and expeditionary systems within their operational environments. One of the main points of discussion involved cybersecurity.
“Anomalies need to be analyzed with standard baselines,” said Capt. William E. Chase, commanding officer for NETWARCOM in reference to the Navy’s ability to recognize anomalies in the cyber realm that might indicate a breech or other adversarial activity on a network. “NETWARCOM has been somewhat absent from the conversation but I am here to share our commitment to the advancement of net-centric warfare,” Chase said.
Chase also spoke about Commander, U.S. 10th Fleet’s and U.S. Fleet Cyber Command’s goals for situational awareness. “It is critical we figure it [cybersecurity strategy] out or our adversaries will run circles around us,” Chase said. “We need to find those end-to-end solutions.”
Subject matter experts in the field of developing or improving information warfare technologies such as those attending the working group like to refer to the concept of development through implementation as end-to-end solutions. The concept refers to all the processes involved in getting a system from research to development to testing to evaluation to installation and operation.
During the second and third days of PMW 790’s users working group, participants had the opportunity to attend several break-out sessions for various systems or programs such as the Navy’s CYBERSAFE program, Navy command, control and communications (NC3) and the Vulnerability Remediation Asset Manager or VRAM. VRAM is particularly important to cybersecurity because it is used to ensure shipboard networks comply with Information Assurance Vulnerability (IAV) requirements. Ships meet these requirements through regular application and software patching.
“We’re running a Patching Summit this week as well so there is some overlap on topics of discussion but the summit focuses on improving patch delivery and implementation on C4I and other systems,” said Pope.
The users working group and the summit foster collaboration among the Navy’s program offices and the commands they support in an effort to support the Chief of Naval Operation’s strategic goals including speed to capability.
CNO Adm. John Richardson released his Design for Maritime Strategy in January with four key lines of effort.
1. Strengthen naval power from the sea.
2. Achieve high-velocity learning at every level.
3. Strengthen our Navy team for the future.
4. Expand and strengthen our network of partners.
Improving speed to capability falls under focus area one, particularly the goal, “Further advance and ingrain information warfare. Expand the Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare concept to encompass all of information warfare, to include space and cyberspace.”
The underlying theme for both the user working group and the summit seemed to be emphasizing the need to get the best solution, whether it is a system or a patch, in place quickly so that the Navy remains one step ahead of our adversaries. “We want to shorten the timeline between speed to IOC [initial operating capability] and speed to FOC [full operating capability],” said Les Hubbard, program manager for PMW 790.
PEO C4I and its partner program offices contribute to the CNO’s Design for Maritime Strategy through the continued development and advancement of information warfare systems.
| Date Taken: | 07.21.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 07.28.2016 17:33 |
| Story ID: | 205387 |
| Location: | SAN DIEGO, CA, US |
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