Entegra Systems Inc of Hanover, MD and Boca Raton, FL-based Immersive
Wisdom Inc. announced on December 4 that
they jointly participated in Cyber Quest 2019, an annual multi-week exercise to evaluate cyber and electronic
warfare tactics and technologies hosted by the U.S. Army Cyber Center of
Excellence (CCoE), Cyber Battle Lab, in Fort Gordon, Georgia. Entegra Systems
and Immersive Wisdom’s participation included integration of their Virtual
Tactical Operations Center (VTOC), which enabled collaborative tactical
planning in a 3-Dimensional environment that brought together all available
Cyber, Electronic Sensor, and Intelligence data, overlaid on 3D terrain maps,
to enable mission planning and situational understanding of the battle.
The Virtual TOC allowed
brigade staff to ingest, visualize, analyze, augment, and collaborate upon
diverse data sets, including data from both electronic warfare and cyber
sensors, and from legacy applications, within a temporal and geospatially-aware
Virtual/Mixed/Augmented Reality space. Multiple users worked together in a
virtual room/world, standing on maps, surrounded by tactical and other
mission-relevant data in an immersive space. Users simultaneously interacted
with and analyzed a comprehensive, 3D, real-time view of the battlespace which
included sensor feeds, cyber/network data, collection platforms, tagged assets,
imagery, and UAV video.
This year’s exercise was held
May 29 through June 14, 2019, to allow the Cyber Battle Lab to evaluate
emerging technologies from government, industry, and academia in a tactical
environment against associated Army required capabilities. The exercise outcomes are used to inform the
capability definition and doctrine writing efforts, validate concepts, and
better understand doctrine, organization, training, materiel, leadership and
education, personnel facilities and policy impacts for those concepts under
evaluation. Cyber Quest also served as a
risk mitigation event that Army acquisition and capability development
proponents can leverage to validate selected candidate’s solutions for
participation in Army/Joint exercises and experiments (i.e. Joint Warfighting
Assessments (JWA), the Army Expeditionary Warrior Experiment (AEWE), the Joint
Users Interoperability Communications Exercise (JUICE) and Network Integration
Experiment (NIE).
“Immersive Wisdom and Entegra Systems are partnered to develop groundbreaking solutions which provide enhanced situational understanding, facilitate global collaboration and data visualization, speed analysis of complex data, and inform the decision-making process for our Government customers,” said Michael Appelbaum, CEO of Immersive Wisdom. “Cyber Quest provided a unique environment for meaningful collaboration between warfighters and technologists which enabled us to demonstrate a view into the future of Multi-Domain battle planning and management. The feedback from the soldiers was overwhelmingly positive and confirmed that our solution is both mature and effective.” said Dean Johnson, CEO of Entegra Systems.
“Entegra Systems and Immersive Wisdom demonstrated an uncommon commitment to the success of this exercise. Their team of integrators worked tirelessly to integrate Program of Record systems, such as Army DDS and EWPMT, as well as EW and Cyber tools under evaluation, and to incorporate feedback from our soldiers, often overnight. In this exercise, we demonstrated a technological leap forward, and quite possibly the future of planning and execution of Multi-Domain Operations,” said MAJ Scott Macpherson, UK Exchange Officer assigned to the U.S. Army Cyber Center of Excellence, Cyber Battle Lab, the Exercise lead for Cyber Quest 2019.
Source: Entegra
By Loren Blinde
December 5, 2019
