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SAN DIEGO, Calif. \u2014 The U.S. Navy\u2019s information warfare community has several ongoing initiatives to understand the actual state of its IW capability and to further integrate it in with the rest of the Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Vice Adm. Kelly Aeschbach, the commander of Naval Information Forces, a key hurdle has been the inability to train with information warfare systems during live events, either due to the harm they may cause nearby in the electromagnetic spectrum or because they don\u2019t want to reveal their tools and tactics to anyone watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy number-one priority right now is that we need to get information warfare fully into live, virtual and constructive training, and we\u2019re focused on that this year through a partnership with [Naval Information Warfare Systems Command] in a series of tests and pilots,\u201d she said during a Feb. 16 panel presentation at the WEST 2022 conference, cohosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and AFCEA International.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cUntil we deliver that, we\u2019ll remain challenged in being objective about how well we\u2019re executing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aeschbach explained several issues related to understanding how good the service\u2019s IW force is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, she said, it\u2019s unclear if the systems the Navy is buying are as good as the Navy expected, or if the sailors can use them properly \u2014 \u201cin some cases we are probably more effective than we know we are, and in some we are not as effective as we think we are,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, in an actual operation, multiple information warfare sailors might be using multiple systems or techniques at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are at risk, I think, of some fratricide in the spectrum \u2014 and we also may have the ability to bring even more compelling effects through the innovation of our sailors in the concurrent use of some of these capabilities that we actually don\u2019t fully understand yet,\u201d she said in separate remarks at the conference on Feb. 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been uncomfortable, especially with the increase in complexity of what we do, that we are guessing about what we\u2019re delivering,\u201d she said, and that won\u2019t be resolved until the IW community has an LVC training system where they can safely operate in a virtual environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said NAVIFOR and NAVWAR are in their third pilot this month, which brings in classified information. Aeschbach said some IW systems have been connected into the LVC pilot and that the effort to get an LVC trainer up and running would continue throughout this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aeschbach said in the panel discussion that an LVC trainer would allow NAVIFOR to understand how each sailor performs in various mission areas and give them more training in specific skills or scenarios to raise their proficiency at an individual level \u2014 something that\u2019s hard to measure and improve today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a force level, though, she praised the two training strike groups \u2014 Carrier Strike Group 4 and CSG 15 \u2014 for \u201cdeveloping more complex scenarios and events that \u2026 are forcing, across all of our mission areas, integration\u201d of information warfare forces within the carrier strike group that\u2019s reflective of how a CSG would operate if called upon to fight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, the Navy deployed its first information warfare commander in a CSG<\/a>, adding the new position to supplement the air warfare commander, surface warfare commander and air warfare commander under the CSG admiral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aeschbach said that she just last week submitted the concept of operations for the information warfare commander role to U.S. Pacific Fleet and U.S. Fleet Forces Command for signature. These information warfare commander CONOPS show \u201cthe goodness and the superb capability that we\u2019re delivering with an information warfare commander now,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an expansion of IW operations at the tactical level, the last few amphibious ready groups (ARGs) to deploy from both the East and West coasts have included a Navy commander and a Marine Corps major whose full-time jobs are to coordinate \u201coperations in the information environment\u201d across the three-ship amphibious ready group and the embarked Marine expeditionary unit, Aeschbach said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe feedback from the leaders that go out on those deployments has been resounding that that\u2019s been incredibly powerful, so we\u2019re committed to working with the surface warfare community on how we turn that position into a permanent one and maintain that integration\u201d in ARG\/MEU deployments, the way the Navy has committed to continuing the role of the information warfare commander in carrier strike group deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, she said, the submarine force is also looking to integrate an IW professional into submarine crews for better integration at the tactical level. Commander of Naval Submarine Forces Vice Adm. Bill Houston, who took command last year shortly after Aeschbach took command of NAVIFOR, \u201cfully embraces information warfare, so much so that he is carving out billets from within the submarine force to pilot permanent party information warfare onboard submarines.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She said Houston recognized that having submarine officers conducting information warfare part-time was \u201cinsufficient,\u201d and that it made more sense to have IW sailors conduct the work themselves as a full-time member of the crew.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two submarines will conduct a pilot program this summer. Each will have a junior officer \u2014an information professional on one submarine, a cryptologist on the other \u2014 as well as two cryptologic technicians and an independent duty intelligence specialist. This group of one officer and three enlisted sailors will help integrate IW capabilities into everyday undersea operations, even as NAVIFOR continues to provide direct support for specialized missions on a temporary basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aeschbach said only the Navy\u2019s IW community could provide battlespace awareness, assured communications and integrated fires<\/a> under the sea, and it was important to start practicing that capability and deploying it around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the operational level, she said, the Navy is experimenting with putting IW sailors at maritime operations centers<\/a>. During last year\u2019s Large Scale Exercise 2021, the Navy fielded an information warfare cell at a MOC for the first time, which Aeschbach said demonstrated the role of IW in maritime operations and the importance of having IW professionals integrated at the staff level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Counting that LSE21 demonstration as a win, she said it was now on her as the type commander to figure out what types of trained individuals are needed to support MOC operations, what equipment should be located at the MOC and what doctrine and tactics are needed to support information warfare at the operational level \u2014 as opposed to the tactical level in a carrier strike group or amphibious ready group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a further sign of the fleet embracing IW, Aeschbach said Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Samuel Paparo asked her to establish an Information Warfare Task Force for the Pacific, which she\u2019s been working on since last summer. The capability was demonstrated at a few exercises since last fall, and she said later this year she\u2019d send an IW flag officer to lead a permanent IW task force to support Pacific operational requirements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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