{"id":28767,"date":"2016-08-11T10:07:29","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2016\/08\/11\/army-spearheading-cyber-persistent-training-environment\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:27:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:27:02","slug":"army-spearheading-cyber-persistent-training-environment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/cyber\/2016\/08\/11\/army-spearheading-cyber-persistent-training-environment\/","title":{"rendered":"Army spearheading cyber persistent training environment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the military continues to build its cyber forces and institutionalize a professional cyber corps, top officials are calling for\u00a0a cyber persistent training environment. While Cyber Command conducts large-scale exercises every year such as Cyber Guard and Cyber Flag, more is needed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army was recently tasked by DoD as the lead for the joint services to develop the persistent training environment, Ron\u00a0Pontius, deputy to the commanding general of Army Cyber Command, said at TechNet Augusta, held in Georgia Aug. 2-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The cyber PTE will provide scenarios event management and access for high quality, individual and collective training and mission reversal capabilities for our cyber mission forces at the time and place of need for all four services and for U.S. Cyber Command,&#8221; Pontius said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This past year the deputy secretary of defense designated the Army as the executive agent for cyber training ranges and then in this last year&#8217;s program budget review the Army was specifically given some resources\u2026to do persistent training environment, to lead the development for the whole DoD capability,&#8221; Pontius told C4ISRNET in a recent interview at Fort Belvoir, Virginia.\u00a0Funding is slated to begin in fiscal 2017,\u00a0and in the meantime, the Army is &#8220;working through the governance and management and the requirements and the acquisition approach for when resources start flowing in FY17,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pontius said the Army is working hand in hand with CYBERCOM on requirements for building cyber ranges, but they are also leveraging the other work that&#8217;s\u00a0been done across the force. He said the Joint Staff and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology\u00a0and Logistics co-led an evaluation of alternatives for a PTE. Based upon this evaluation, the Joint Staff and CYBERCOM coordinated\u00a0development of the initial requirements document that was approved by the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs and the Joint Requirements Oversight Council in June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional efforts the Army is looking to leverage in leading the PTE are the work done at the national cyber range in Orlando, Florida;\u00a0a cybersecurity range in Stafford, Virginia, run by the Marines Corps on behalf of DISA;\u00a0the C4 assessment division in Suffolk, Virginia, part of the Joint Staff J-7; and efforts from the Defense Enterprise Cyber Range Environment, or DECRE, which is also forming ranges, Pontius said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Boosting existing training<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many military officials have expressed a strong desire for the persistent training environment as current training is not\u00a0up to snuff. Col. 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