The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded Raytheon [RTN] a contract to develop an automated tool to assess the effectiveness of using missiles, kinetic interceptors, cyber and electronic warfare (non-kinetic) weapons in wargames, the company said Thursday.
The assessment tool is meant to automatically teach wargame participants which weapons to use in all possible scenarios and help better prepare the warfighters. The contract was awarded under the MDA’s Advanced Technology Broad Agency Announcement.
Raytheon will deliver an initial wargame tool based on its Coordinated Cyber/Electronic Warfare Integrates Fires (CCEWIF) program by early 2018. The CCEWIF uses analytics to assess the probabilities of success within a wargame scenario using kinetic and non-kinetic options. It incorporates real-world data on threats and kinetic/non-kinetic effects to generate realistic simulations, Raytheon said.
The company then uses its “mathematical foundation” to provide probabilities of success, predicted battle damage to the target, and confidence values for those predictions.
“This really is a first of its kind tool that brings together automation, analytics and cyber capabilities. This unique program will give our military an edge in today’s digital battlespace when seconds count and they need options and answers fast,” Todd Probert, vice president of mission support and modernization at Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services segment, said in a statement.
Raytheon said that an example where CCEWIF could be used would be to provide probabilities of success for using different cyber, electronic warfare, and munition options to eliminate a ballistic missile before, during, and after launch.
Raytheon did not disclose the contract value.