FA8650-17-S-1006-Atch6.pdf

BAA FA8650-17-S-1006

Attachment 6

Spectrum Warfare Enduring Challenges (SWEC) Statement of Objectives (SOO)

10 Jan 2017

1.0 Background

The United States defense strategy continues to evolve to best position the Department of Defense (DoD) to counter evolving global threats, to provide an effective geopolitical deterrent for the nation, and to maintain a decisive military advantage in light of global technological access. Strategic guidance at all levels emphasizes the need for Science and Technology (S&T) to enable effective military operations in anti-access/area-denied

(A2/AD), cyber, and contested environments, where advancements in sensing and countermeasures technology are needed to defeat high-end weaponry such as integrated air defenses, long-range ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, advanced fighters, and weapons of mass destruction (WMD). As the Air Force evolves to provide core mission capabilities against potential near-peer threats, it continues to play a central role in counter-insurgency and counter-terrorism operations against a range of extremist groups in the Middle

East and throughout the world, placing a continued demand on further development of persistent surveillance and other advanced sensing capabilities that provide a substantial warfighter impact. The

Sensors Directorate continues to be stretched in multiple directions to address a variety of user needs, and must exhibit a combination of agility and discipline to effectively respond to the evolving Air Force needs while maintaining sufficient focus in key research areas to establish and transition new sensing and countermeasures capabilities.

Effectively addressing these extensive and competing user demands necessitates a research portfolio with appropriately balanced and focused revolutionary, relevant, and responsive components. It must simultaneously provide innovative sensing capabilities to the current warfighter as conflicts continue to evolve; extend Air Force capabilities for ISR, strike and electronic warfare in contested environments to deter future conflicts; and discover game-changing capabilities that will provide a long term military advantage in a world of proliferated technology. Furthermore, it demands that the directorate become more effective in demonstrating the integration of technology into complex systems-of-systems capabilities, since this is where the Air Force can maintain dominance in a world of rapidly proliferated technology.

To respond to these extensive and competing demands for revolutionary sensing and countermeasures capabilities, the RYW Spectrum Warfare Division is pursuing 2 enduring challenges:

PROTECT AIRCREWS AND AIRCRAFT

Enhance threat understanding, the spectral coverage and sensitivity of warning receivers, and the effectiveness of countermeasures techniques to protect against a range of surface-to-air and air-to-air threats, with a focus on the most advanced, lethal, and emerging threats. Enable assured operations of airborne missions in the presence of agile and complex threat kill chains, electromagnetic disruption of mission systems such as Global Positioning System (GPS) and communications, and on- and off-board cyber threats.

DEFEAT INTEGRATED AIR DEFENSES (IADS)

Enable persistent airborne missions with distributed, networked and adaptive electronic warfare capabilities to deny, disrupt, degrade, and deceive integrated active and passive, airborne and ground-based defensive capabilities, including directed energy threats.

2.0 Objective

The objective of this effort is to conduct research and development (R&D) in the areas of aircrew/aircraft protection and defeating integrated air defense systems (IADS).

3.0 Tasks and Technical Requirements

3.1 Aircrew/Aircraft Protection: The future battlespace will be electromagnetically contested and congested with digitally based, software defined systems with lethal capabilities at extended ranges. US weapon systems need to operate and dominate in this environment.

3.1.1 Cyber threats to Avionics Systems: Areas of interest include developing technologies designed to counter reverse engineering of our IP, identifying and mitigating vulnerabilities due to hardware and software deficiencies, developing adaptable, resilient protections and designing cyber resistant architectures.

3.1.2 Assured and Accurate Position, Navigation and Timing (PNT): Areas of interest include developing methods for maintaining the military use of global navigational satellite systems while denying the same to an adversary, improving the accuracy, precision and C-SWAP of PNT systems and developing PNT capabilities which do not rely on satellite navigation systems.

3.1.3 Defeat of Kinetic Threats: Areas of interest include developing novel methods of defeating kinetic threats associated with state-of-the-art IADS with RF/EO/IR spectrum warfare.

3.1.3.1 Radio Frequency Electronic Warfare: Areas of interest include developing advanced radio frequency electronic warfare support (ES) capabilities for current and future threat environments, developing advanced electronic warfare (EW) capabilities in a complex/dynamic denied environment, and developing advanced electronic attack (EA) capabilities to increase mission survivability.

3.1.3.2 Electro-Optic/Infrared Countermeasures: Areas of interest include developing electro-optical countermeasure solutions for defeating current and future threat sensors, providing proactive countermeasures to prevent launch/fire of electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) guided weapons and providing the warfighter with hostile fire indications (HFI), missile warning and laser warning capabilities against threat systems.

3.2 Defeat of IADS: State-of-the-art IADS provide the nerve center for anti-access threats to blue forces. Defeat of IADS can be accomplished by non-kinetic means including RF/EO/IR electronic warfare and cyber approaches to locate key nodes, degrade their operation, and reduce the effectiveness of adversary air defense capabilities.

3.2.1 RF/EO/IR Electronic Warfare: Areas of interest include developing novel methods of RF/EO/IR electronic warfare to locate, degrade and reduce the effectiveness of IADS.

3.2.2 Cyber IADS: Areas of interest include developing novel cyber technologies to locate, degrade and reduce the effectiveness of IADS.

4.0 Management

The contractor shall exercise program, administrative, and financial management functions including establishing activities and milestones; tracking performance, cost, and schedule; overseeing quality performance; planning, forecasting, and reporting funding and funding changes; and preparing appropriate documentation.

5.0 Deliverables

Data shall be delivered in accordance with the Contracts Data Requirements Lists (CDRLs). Specific hardware/software deliverables as well as residual hardware that are procured or developed under this effort shall be delivered as applicable.

6.0 Security

The contractor shall coordinate security requirements in accordance with the DD254. General OPSEC procedures, policies and awareness are required in an effort to reduce program vulnerability from successful adversary collection and exploitation of critical information. OPSEC will be applied throughout the lifecycle of the contract.

The Critical Information List will be provided upon request by the RYOY Information Protection Office. While working on the government installation OPSEC will be provided by the RYOY Information Protection Office.

7.0 Safety

The following safety requirements will be incorporated into the contract, as applicable: Must comply with all Air

Force, federal, state, and local safety and environmental regulations; Requires an approved Safety Plan (AFI 91-

202 AFRL Sup 1) before any experiment may be conducted outside of a lab environment; Must comply with system safety requirements contained in MIL-STD 882E, Section 4 “General Requirements” for any deliverable systems or hardware; Must identify safety-critical components of those systems or hardware, and software interfaces with those components; must test and verify the safety-critical hardware and software for safety acceptance.