Signature Event 10: Multi-domain Battlespace Training
(Room 330BCD)
04 Dec 19
2:00 PM
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3:30 PM
Tracks:
Full Schedule, Signature Event, Wednesday Schedule
A common mantra within the U.S. military has been to “train as you fight.” Yet, live training fails to replicate with fidelity the type of cyber and informationized operations that warfighters will experience in a contested and complex battlespace. Synthetic training environments can inject a much-needed degree of realism, replicating an information-saturated combat environment for non-cyber warfighter training. However, synthetic training systems, scenarios, and models must evolve to support this future. Integrating cyber and informationized operations into non-cyber warrior training does not just require simulating the effects of an adversary’s cyber or information operations in a synthetic training environment. Warfighters must also understand the unique attributes that cyber warriors bring to the fight when pursuing multi-domain operations, to include timing, authorities, and classification, among others. Multi-domain operations require warfighters to more seamlessly work between domains to support, augment, or assure their mission. An integrated synthetic training environment must support this end. This special event will highlight multi-domain battlespace training requirements, challenges, successes, gaps, and potential solutions from the perspective of multi-domain warfighters, cyber simulation & training researchers, and integrated synthetic training environment developers. Scientists and technologists across academia, industry, and the services will showcase technologies they have developed that allow cyber effects to propagate across environments. The technology demonstration should provide a networking opportunity, so that participants can work together to scale and implement ideas to better serve the warfighter.