Capt. Christopher Bryant, commanding officer, CIWT, supplied an outline of the Data Warfare coaching CIWT is chargeable for at its 4 major coaching instructions and distributed studying websites. Cmdr. Peter Manzoli, commanding officer, IWTC Corry Station, was additionally readily available and mentioned his command’s mission, programs supplied, and numerous Data Warfare group pupil inhabitants.
All through the dialogue Hermosilla voiced eager curiosity in CIWT’s useful resource sponsorship and necessities relationships. Bryant defined the useful resource sponsorship function of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Data Warfare (N2N6), but additionally the vital roles that Naval Data Forces, the Nationwide Companies, and Data Warfare group leaders play in offering the necessities that charts the course of coaching the Data Warfare group.
To explain the technical improvements CIWT coaching is headed, CIWT workers members, Cmdr. Josh Dennis and Cmdr. Gil Baughn mentioned adjustments being made by CIWT to transition curriculum into digital supply platforms to extend actuality, sophistication, and accessibility of coaching in addition to making curriculum Prepared, Related Studying-compliant.
Cmdr. Dennis highlighted the cloud-based Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Companies (CANES) program that takes place within the Coaching Digital Surroundings (TVE), and the Multipurpose Reconfigurable Coaching System (MRTS) 3D® which is getting used to develop coaching functions for the Floor Ship Radio Room that will probably be integrated into IT and Data Skilled (IP) officer programs.
Cmdr. Baughn defined the present and deliberate growth of Cyber Mission Power (CMF) coaching occurring inside the CIWT area, inserting emphasis of the event of the Navy’s Maritime Cyber Officer designator which is able to see CIWT host the Navy’s first Laptop Community Operations {Qualifications} Course (CNOQC) in July 2023. Bryant then highlighted that CIWT had been in a position to develop classroom-delivered cyber coaching programs executed inside the Persistent Cyber Coaching Surroundings (PCTE), two to 3 years forward of schedule. PCTE is a cloud-based platform designed to ship lifelike cyber simulations on the particular person, crew, and drive stage, at the moment adopted by all 4 companies and the U.S. Cyber Command.
Bryant additionally requested Hermosilla for his help in getting floor damaged for the deliberate, high-end CMF coaching facility deliberate for Corry Station in 2027, saying, “it retains being pushed to the appropriate. We want that to cease rolling, and we have to get floor damaged.”
The go to concluded with Manzoli offering a tour of IWTC Corry Station coaching services the place Hermosilla was in a position to observe one of many MRTS 3D® labs utilized by cryptologic technician technical college students to learn to keep the AN/SLQ-32(v)6, the principal Digital Warfare system used on Navy floor ships. As Hermosilla watched Cryptologic Technician Technical 1st Class Brooks Wartgow maneuver by means of the touchscreen coaching system, he commented that the MRTS 3D® know-how ought to be used on a wide-scale all through the fleet to maximise coaching alternatives on all sorts of completely different methods.
With 4 schoolhouse instructions, two detachments, and coaching websites all through the US and Japan, Middle for Data Warfare Coaching trains over 26,000 college students yearly, delivering skilled data warfare professionals to the Navy and joint companies. Middle for Data Warfare Coaching additionally affords greater than 200 programs for cryptologic technicians, intelligence specialists, data methods technicians, electronics technicians, and officers within the data warfare group.
