{"id":20541,"date":"2019-07-24T15:28:12","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T15:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2019\/07\/24\/what-happened-at-the-militarys-biggest-cyber-training-exercise-to-date\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T18:18:51","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T18:18:51","slug":"what-happened-at-the-militarys-biggest-cyber-training-exercise-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2019\/07\/24\/what-happened-at-the-militarys-biggest-cyber-training-exercise-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"What happened at the military\u2019s biggest cyber training exercise to date"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When soldiers are preparing to deploy, they head to the Army\u2019s National Training Center at Fort Irwin in California. There, they can replicate an entire campaign during a two-week rotation against a world class force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But in the cyber world, no such training environment exists. That means cyber forces train in ad hoc cyber ranges and are limited by the number of teams that can dial in. Moreover, there is no space to rehearse for an upcoming mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE), managed by the Army, seeks to change all of that. PCTE is an online client in which members of U.S. Cyber Command\u2019s cyber mission force can log on from anywhere in the world for training, either of individuals or of groups, and to rehearse missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/show-reporter\/technet-augusta\/2018\/08\/23\/what-will-the-cyber-training-platform-look-like-good-question\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Info-Ops.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">What will the cyber training platform look like? Good question.<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Working through the agile development process, the Army is not sure what the finial vision for the persistent cyber training environment will look like.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In June, the program underwent its biggest test to date, working with cyber warriors from across several time zones during an exercise created by the Navy, to get the system ready for primetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Making sense of Cyber Forge<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The genesis for the June exercise, called Cyber Forge, comes from a simple fact: Navy leaders were looking for a better way to train their cyber teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The pipelines that are provided at the time do not meet the demands that we need in order to keep the sailors up to speed in the cyber realm,\u201d Chief Petty Officer Clayton Henry, told Fifth Domain during a visit to the exercise.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, the current methods and tools available are inefficient, officials said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wanted a better way to train my team,\u201d said Jeff Tucker, who is part of Navy Cyber Defense Activity 64, which houses several defensive cyber teams, and designed the Cyber Forge scenario, told Fifth Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To date, most cyber training exercises were a version of playing capture the flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCapture the flag, [is] basically just a question-based type thing. You really have to lead teams down a path, there\u2019s really no set path on how you do it right or wrong. While that\u2019s nice, that\u2019s not an effective way to train people,\u201d Tucker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Navy leaders thought there could be a mutually beneficial relationship if they linked up with the PCTE team. The operational community needs to train and the PCTE team needs operational users to continue to test its prototype. As a result, officials extended invitations to Cyber Forge to the entire joint force, not just the Navy, to help test the scalability of PCTE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI wanted to be able to expand it out to affect more teams because my team isn\u2019t the only one that needs extra training.,\u201d Tucker said. \u201cThat\u2019s how it grew.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyber Forge was a created as a template inside the PCTE platform and could then be downloaded by other teams across the Department of Defense. Teams from the Army, Air Force and Navy \u2014 six teams of 10 to 15 people each \u2014 spread from Maryland, Georgia, Texas and Hawaii, participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event focused on defensive cyber operations and involved teams hunting on a network to drive out an actor and then delivering a remediation plan to the network owner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exercise was a significant expansion from previous exercises with the PCTE .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s testing it at a scale and scope that we haven\u2019t done,\u201d Amit Kapadia, product manager of Cyber Resiliency and Training and chief engineer at Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, told Fifth Domain. \u201cThere\u2019s about 150 different virtual machines times six different individual games going on so we\u2019re gradually increasing the size and scope of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/home\/2019\/04\/16\/what-the-army-learned-from-a-february-cyber-exercise\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/3518320.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">What the Army learned from a February cyber exercise<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">Cyber teams are beginning to use a new training environment that will allow staffers to rehearse for specific missions.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cyber leaders had used PCTE for two previous offensive cyber exercises \u2014 Cyber Anvil in February and Cyber Valhalla in March \u2014 but both were smaller events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Cyber Forge, Kapadia said the team looked to learn how the system performed over several time zones. Others on the operational side noted that they\u2019re learning how to run a distributed white cell, a team of administrators which essentially runs the overall scenario dialing up or down the difficulty. Ideally, cyber teams hope to have teams dial in from all over the world for training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c[One of the] lessons learned already is [that] distributed white cell is hard,\u201d Henry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard to relay information and it\u2019s hard to relay not only information but intent. Everybody will perceive something differently,\u201d Henry added. \u201cIt\u2019s really easy to walk over to the teams, see what the team is doing \u2026 But if he\u2019s over in Georgia, I have to hope he answers his phone or he sees me on Slack \u2026 If he doesn\u2019t understand my question \u2026 that\u2019s just a pertinent example of how a distributed white cell works.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This experience from participating in an exercise is critical for the program office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis is huge because the platform providers [and] the program office will see what works and what doesn\u2019t work and we can take that feedback and roll into the next sprint,\u201d Lee Rossey, chief technology officer of SimSpace, one of the PCTE contractors, told Fifth Domain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Personnel from the operational community were generally pleased working with the PCTE team for Cyber Forge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo one was expecting a flawless operation but we are pretty close to having almost no issues,\u201d Tucker said. \u201cFor the most part, we are able to provide a pretty realistic simulated environment for the teams to work how they see fit \u2026 I couldn\u2019t be happier with the way PCTE is going \u2026 the way I see it is it could easily be our primary tool to train our personnel and assess our personnel in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials noted it will be many months until PCTE is ready to can be used for a major Tier I exercise such as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fifthdomain.com\/dod\/cybercom\/2019\/07\/16\/cyber-command-tested-persistent-engagement-in-june-exercise\/\" target=_blank>Cyber Flag<\/a>, which is Cyber Command\u2019s premier annual exercise, but the goal is to eventually reach that threshold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, many in the contracting and cyber community are concerned about how the eventual PCTE platform will scale around the world given that the prototype has been run by smaller companies without experience integrating large programs akin to major prime contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s why we want to do these events,\u201d Kapadia said. \u201dWhy we are in this prototyping stage is to be able to know that each of these events that we\u2019re taking on \u2026 we\u2019re getting to that next level of scalability,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Col. Thomas Monaghan, product manager of cyber resiliency and training at PEO STRI, told Fifth Domain there is no correct answer to the scalabilty question, acknowledging this is the first time a program like this has been done. \u201cWe\u2019re taking small scale events and figuring, okay, this is what the materiel solution management looks like, this is what the operational management looks like \u2026 and [we] adjust fire for the next mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>We\u2019re going to need a bigger boat<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For a joint program that is going to span all services, the Army\u2019s program office is going to need a bigger contract vehicle going forward for PCTE allowing for more money and a wider range of services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The PCTE team held an industry day June 11, when they briefed a new contract vehicle for the program called Cyber Training, Readiness, Integration, Delivery and Enterprise Technology, or TRIDENT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat that means is we can do stuff, like when cyber mission forces say \u2018we need to go after this type of training event, this type of content,\u2019 we have the vehicle to do that,\u201d Monaghan said. \u201cIt\u2019s more of an everything contract instead of a little niche \u2026 it allows us to do so much more instead of this little [contract]\u2026 figure out an OTA, figure out this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Monaghan said the contract vehicle is valued at almost $1 billion dollars, one of the biggest contracts the program office has ever awarded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Where is PCTE headed?<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Many at Cyber Forge described the current iteration and future version of the PCTE platform as an on-demand interface with modules that teams can click on depending on what they want to practice. Additionally, there\u2019s the option for organizations to create their own exercise or range within the platform, like the Navy did for Cyber Forge, or to choose from an existing template inside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to budget documents, the PCTE program plans to spend more than $400 million on the program in the next five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The program still has a way to go in terms of integrating new capabilities. In the prototype phase, the Army has conducted a series of cyber innovation challenges (CICs), which are awards to layer new technologies onto the platform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The third challenge was awarded in February to Metova Federal, ManTech and SimSpace Corp. to work on the white cell exercise control. SimSpace will also work on a technical management dashboard. These capabilities were too new to be featured in Cyber Forge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Similar to the Apple app store, the program office has instituted a standard for companies to provide new solutions or applications so long as they meet certain security requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the vendor awards a series of monthly sprints will incrementally add capabilities and technology to the platform. Rossey explained that monthly sprints occur with users providing feedback. He added another major update to the platform is scheduled for August with more monthly updates planned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of this is leading up to what personnel are calling the PCTE 1.0, or the official version of the program, slated for release in January.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>PCTE is also making cyber more joint<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials said events like Cyber Forge also allow for personnel from the program community, contracting community, academic community and operational community to get together and hash out big picture issues associated with cyber training and cyber issues across the joint force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since PCTE is a joint program to be used by all the services cyber mission force personnel under Cyber Command, the program has to take into account stake holders and teams from across the services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the sessions observed at Cyber Forge focused on building content for what are known as Joint Qualification Requirements (JQR). JQRs are essentially the checklists personnel in DoD need to know to qualify to use a particular weapon system, cyber or not. For cyber, this could be the defensive kits teams deploy with when responding to a breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Participants said they wanted to include the requirements in the training environment for all the cyber weapon systems, a change that would allow cyberwarriors to log in to train on their specific weapon system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">By having this discussion, officials said it also helps Cyber Command look at the capabilities they have and standardize them across the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Army is taking a multifaceted approach to test and build the next generation cyber training platform for all of DoD&#8217;s 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