In the modern battlespace, Army forces must be Multi-Domain Operations (MDO)-capable, and as part of the Joint Force, must be prepared to fight across all domains (Land, Sea, Air, Space, and Cyberspace), the Electromagnetic Spectrum (EMS), and the Information Environment (IE). Increasingly, in conjunction with traditional kinetic operations, threats target the Army’s Radio Frequency (RF) connected elements to gain an advantage in contested environments, such as the disruption of Global Positioning System (GPS) and other Position, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) systems, and jamming of radio communications. To support MDO training in this complex operational environment, the Army’s Live, Virtual, Constructive, and Gaming (LVC&G) training systems need to incorporate these Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) to produce realistic effects for the training audience. However, incorporating EMS elements in training environments is difficult due to regulations on spectrum interference and the lack of integration with existing constructive and virtual simulation systems. In this work, we describe our initial efforts to provide an architecture to coordinate training of EMS operations and effects between the synthetic training environment and live training participants. We established an architecture, toolset, and approach to communicate threat radio jamming effects from the simulated environment, producing actual jamming effects on participant radios in the live environment. The Cyberspace Battlefield Operating System Simulation (CyberBOSS) system was used as an integrating architecture between simulated jammers in the One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) system, stimulating software defined radios (SDR) in the live environment. This resulted in actual jamming effects on tactical radios instrumented with Direct Injection Jammer (DIJ) devices, providing an emulated jamming effect without any open-air jamming in the operational environment. This paper describes the work to date for this effort, and discusses the next steps to be taken to further coordinate CEMA training between live and synthetic training environments.

Keywords
ELECTRONIC WARFARE,JAMMING,RADIOS,SIMULATIONS

Additional Keywords
Electromagnetic spectrum, Cyberspace, CyberBOSS, Software Defined Radios, Cyberspace Effects