On February 17, the U.S. Space Force issued a request for information (RFI) for Threat Informed Space Environment for Cyber Test & Training Range. Responses are due by 4:00 p.m. Pacific on March 17.
In accordance with Part 10 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, the U.S. Government (USG) is issuing this RFI in an effort to understand market availability and maturity of the ability to conduct live, virtual and on-orbit training events with congruent operating models supporting blue and red representations simultaneously for large-scale and team/mission-focused scenarios. The operating models need to include accurate, physics-based environments for realistic training events.
The Secretary of the Air Force has established seven new operational imperatives, major focus areas for the Department of the Air Force in 2022:
- Defining Resilient Space Order of Battle and Architectures (defensive and offensive)
- Achieving Operationally-Optimized Advanced Battle Management System (ABMS) / Air Force Joint All Domain Command and Control
- Defining the Next Generation Air Dominance System of Systems (sensors, communications, command & control, weapons, and uncrewed aerial vehicles)
- Achieving Moving Target Engagement at Scale (air, sea surface and ground mobile targets)
- Defining Optimized Resilient Basing, Sustainment, and Communications in a Contested Environment
- Defining the B-21 Long Range Strike Family of Systems
- Evaluating Readiness of the DAF to Transition to a Wartime Posture Against a Peer Competitor
The above imperatives will set the tone for the Department of the Air Force’s future and senior leaders across the Air Force have been appointed as operational and acquisition leads for each imperative to perform analysis within an aggressive timeline to generate FY24 POM recommendations for the Secretary by the end of March 2022. This RFI supports the analysis for ONE of these imperatives, specifically OI #7 (Evaluating Readiness of the DAF to Transition to a Wartime Posture Against a Peer Competitor), to inform future budget and program decisions. Additional separate RFI’s may be issued in support of other imperatives. Where possible, the Air Force would like to understand within your responses how your technology and operational concepts for this imperative could enable, connect, and contribute across all 7 imperatives. The DAF would also like to understand the scalability and adaptability of your proposed concepts.
Responses to this RFI will inform USG plans to create live, virtual and on-orbit space cyber test and training events as well as TTP development that will enable Cyber Professionals to exercise various mission set vignettes in a simulated environment with the ability to incorporate HWIL. The DAF may desire to perform proof-of-concept evaluations and prototype evaluations. The DAF may desire to procure small quantities of hardware for qualification and continued testing.
Review the full Space Force cyber RFI here.
Source: SAM
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