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Radiant Mercury Usage

at the

Nevada Test and Training Range

Ted Gruber Engineering Project Manager

JT3 / Arcata Associates Inc.

Nellis AFB, Nevada

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Nevada Test and

Training Range

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• The Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR) provides a real-world environment for air and ground-based military activities, including pilot and crew training, combat exercises, and testing of new aircraft and weapons systems

• NTTR hosts highly sophisticated training exercises that simulate battlefield situations (e.g., Red Flag, USAF Weapons School)

• NTTR has more than 1600 surface targets -- USAF drops more than 45% of all peacetime live ordnance here

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Nellis AFB and

NTTR Locations

Combined Operations

Center

• The Combined Operations Center (COC) is located at Nellis AFB, Nevada

• The COC employs Red and Blue systems, in addition to White Force umpires, to assist with the training of combat aircrews

• The COC personnel responsible for these activities are collectively known as Roulette

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Roulette

• The Roulette mission is to provide accurate simulation of real-world aircraft acquisition and command and control functions

• Roulette operators exercise tactical control over assigned simulated surface-based air defense systems (threats) on the NTTR

• During missions, Roulette operators use the Digital Integrated Air Defense System (DIADS) software to provide command and control data to threat simulators at remote NTTR locations

• Roulette operators also collect threat simulator engagement data for range users

NTTR Threat Simulators

• Manned Threat Simulators T1, T13, T43

• Unmanned Threat Simulators Unmanned Threat Emitter (UMTE)

Joint Threat Emitter (JTE)

• Mobile Threat Simulators Roland

Early Warning Emitter (EWE)

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DIADS NTTR Map View

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DIADS Threat

Communications

• Roulette operators use DIADS to engage threat simulators against Blue Force aircraft

• Manned threat simulators receive data by radio, telephone, or a digital datalink with optional simulated jamming

• Unmanned threat simulators are controlled directly from DIADS

• EWE systems detect jamming and degrade the DIADS perceived mode air picture accordingly

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DIADS

Slant Range Display

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TSMP Pointout Display

Radiant Mercury Guard

• DIADS operates at the SECRET level and communicates with other unclassified systems and NTTR assets

• The Radiant Mercury (RM) Guard is an NSA-accredited cross domain solution developed by Lockheed Martin for red/black separation Message filtering rules determine what data the

RM can pass from high to low and low to high

• JT3 and CUBRC selected the RM as the red/black separation mechanism for DIADS at NTTR

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Radiant Mercury 4.5.2

• One RM 4.5.2 system was deployed in the COC in 2009 Hosted on a Sun Netra 240 (Trusted Solaris)

A second RM was deployed as a spare

Some message traffic was offloaded to the spare system

• Two Security Test and Evaluation (ST&E) tests were conducted June 2009 (DIADS Phase 1 and 2 messaging)

December 2009 (added Phase 3 messaging)

• DSAWG granted the Approval to Connect in April 2010

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Radiant Mercury 5.0

• Lockheed Martin released RM 5.0 in August 2010 Supports Sun and 64-bit PC hardware Solaris with Trusted Extensions Provides significant improvement in message

throughput capacity

• Two RM 5.0 systems were deployed in the COC in January 2011 One operational system, one spare

• No ST&E required due to Platform IT status • RM 5.0 integration in January 2011

Replacement of RM 4.5.2 systems Added DIADS Phase 4 messaging

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Radiant Mercury 5.0

Connections

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