Information
Operations: Government
& Military
U.S.
Air Force Information Warfare Center 'is a
collocated unit of the Air Intelligence Agency,
Kelly Air Force Base, Texas. The Center is engaged
in a myriad of activities supporting its role as
the Air Force Information Warfare executive agent.
AFIWC's mission is to develop, maintain and deploy
information warfare/command and control warfare
capabilities in support of operations, campaign
planning, acquisition and testing.'
U.S. Army - Land Information
Warfare Activity (LIWA). Location:
Fort Belvoir, VA. The LIWA provides Information Warfare and Command and Control
Warfare support to land component and separate Army commands, both active and
reserve, to facilitate planning and execution of Information Operations. The
LIWA consists of four directorates: Plans/Operations Support, Intelligence/Analysis
Support, Information Support, and System Threat Assessment. The ARAT-TA constitutes
the System Threat Assessment Directorate and the Chief, ARAT-TA, reports directly
to the LIWA Director.
U.S.
Navy Fleet Information Warfare Center 'Our
mission is to provide continuously improving IW support,
which encompasses and integrates all IW disciplines,
to deploying and operating Naval forces worldwide
as tasked by CINCLANTFLT, CINCPACFLT, CINCUSNAVEUR,
and COMUSNAVCENT.'
U.S. Navy - Naval Information Warfare Activity (NIWA). The Naval Information
Warfare Activity (NIWA) at Ft Meade is the Navy's principal technical agent to
research, assess, develop and prototype Information Warfare (IW) capabilities.
This recently created activity supports the development capabilities encompassing
all aspects of IW attack, protect and exploit. A key focus of efforts in this
line is providing tactical commanders with an IW Mission Planning, Analysis,
and Command and Control Targeting System (IMPACTS) tool. An aggressive program
is maintained to acquire and analyze state-of-the-art technologies (software
and hardware), evaluate fleet applicability and prototype developmental capabilities.
NIWA is the Navy's interface with other Service and National IW organizations,
working closely with the Fleet Information Warfare Center (FIWC) to develop of
IW technical capabilities for Navy and Joint Operations.
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