Information Dominance Warfare Officer (Idwo) Pqs 202 Information Processing Systems

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

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SSEE Increment E/F

- Ships Signal Exploitation Equipment.
- Part of ship’s tactical cryptologic systems (TCS) suite.
- Allows operators to monitor and analyze signals of interest aboard a variety of ship classes.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

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AN/SLQ-32(V)

(V)1: simple threat warning receiver; phased out.
(V)2: receives surveillance and targeting radars = passive targeting capability for Harpoon missile-equipped ships.
(V)3: active radar-jamming capability.
(V)4: designed for installation on aircraft carriers.
(V)5: compact version of the (V)3 system intended to give active jamming capability to the Perry class FFG’s, which were too small to carry a full (V)3.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

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AN/SRS-1, Combat DF

- Combat Direction Finder.
- Automated long range hostile target signal acquisition and direction finding system that can detect, locate, categorize and archive data into the ship's tactical data system.
- Electronic support, signal acquisition, and direction-finding system provides warship commanders near-real-time indications and warning, situational awareness, and cueing information for targeting systems.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

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MK 36, DLS

- Decoy Launching System with Super Rapid Blooming Offboard Chaff (SRBOC).
- Short-range mortar that launches chaff or infrared decoys from naval vessels to foil anti-ship missiles.
- Each launcher has four tubes set at a 45-degree angle, and two tubes set at a 60 degree angle, providing an effective spread of decoys and countermeasures to defeat radio frequency emitting missiles.
- Can also be fitted with the TORCH infrared "flare" decoy system.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

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MK 53, DLS

- Commonly referred to as “NULKA” (in the Australian Aboriginal dialect, "Nulka" means "be quick!").
- Rapid response Active Expendable Decoy (AED) System capable of providing highly effective defense for ships of cruiser size and below against modern radar homing anti-ship missiles.
- Intended to counter a wide spectrum of present and future radar-guided anti-ship missiles (ASMs) assessed to have passive decoy rejection and active angular deflection electronic countermeasures rejection capabilities.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

AN/ULR-21 TROLL/ISCRS

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- Integrated Submarine Communications Receiving System.
- New Attack Submarine (NSSN) Electronic Support Measures (ESM) System
- Formerly called ASTECS - Advanced Submarine Tactical ESM Combat System.
- Will develop a new ESM system that will support operations in both the open-ocean environment and the complex littoral signals environment.
- Provides detection, identification, and direction-finding for radar and communication signals emanating from ships, aircraft, submarines, and other emitters.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

AN/USQ-113

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- Communications Jammer.
- EA-6B Growler communications countermeasures set (CCS) to locate enemy communication channels and disrupt communications.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

AN/ALQ-99

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- Tactical Jamming System (TJS).
- Intercepts and automatically processes radar signals and power manages the system's transmitters to effectively jam large numbers of diverse radar threats with very high effective radiated power (ERP).
- Capable of intercepting, automatically processing and jamming received radio frequency signals.
- Receivers can also be used to detect, identify and direction find those signals, providing signals intelligence (SIGINT) either automatically or manually.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

UYX-4 SEI

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- Specific Emitter Identification technology.
- Provides a reliable, long-range, all-weather positive target identification capability against seaborne platforms and land-based systems that emit radar signals.
- A network of geographically separated SEI-equipped aircraft, ship, and land-based platforms operating in a networked environment provide time-critical, tactically relevant Electronic Intelligence (ELINT) that contribute to early Indications and Warning (I&W) of suspected hostile vessels, enhance the commander's situational awareness, and assist in forming courses-of-action.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

RADIANT MERCURY

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Software application that automatically sanitizes, guards, and downgrades multi-level classified, formatted information, to allow its release to users (primarily tactical users) not authorized access to more highly classified data.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

AN/USQ-146

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- Off-the-shelf dual receiver-transmitter that provides conventional AM/FM voice and data communications, multiband surveillance scanning, target detection, identification and analysis.
- Allows multi-waveform jamming of targeted signals in the 20 to 2,500 MHz frequency range.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

AN/SSX-1

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- Electronic warfare system that supports a variety of missions including maritime interdiction operations against weapon, chemical and drug smuggling.
- Collects precision electronic parametric data and correlates it to specific transmissions from ships and aircraft searching for potential matches.
- Designed for the US Navy's Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) which is an upgrade to the AN/SLQ-32 electronic warfare anti-ship missile defense system.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

JTT/CTT

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- Joint/Commander’s Tactical Terminals.
- Family of special application UHF tactical intelligence terminals which provide the capability to disseminate time sensitive C4I and battlefield targeting information to tactical commanders and intelligence nodes.
- Information is provided in near-real-time and allows selected collection managers at all echelons a full-duplex capability to dynamically adjust pre-planned tasking.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

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AIS

- Automatic Identification System.
- Automatic tracking system used on ships and by Vessel traffic services (VTS) for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships and AIS Base stations.
- Supplements marine radar, which continues to be the primary method of collision avoidance for water transport.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

DRT

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- Dead Reckoning Tracer
- Mechanical computer that plots the location of the ship on a paper chart, based upon a known start location and a series of inertial inputs.
- The DRT operator places a piece of tracing paper on top of the glass and periodically marks lighted ship positions projected onto the paper from beneath the glass and bearings to contacts.
- Typically located in ship’s CIC (combat information center)

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

DCGS

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- Distributed Common Ground Systems.
- Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office (DARO) vision for the integrated architecture of all ground/surface systems.
- Establishes the core framework for a worldwide distributed, network centric, system-of-systems architecture that conducts collaborative intelligence operations and production.
- Family of fixed and deployable multi-source ground processing systems that support a range of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems such as national and commercial satellite systems, U-2, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), and F-16 Theater Airborne Reconnaissance Systems (TARS).

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

JCA

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- Joint Services Imagery Processing System (JSIPS) concentrator architecture (JCA).
- Developed for the fast and efficient delivery of imagery while providing increased flexibility in bandwidth management.
- Client-server based architecture, with web-like browsing features and capabilities for fleet imagery subscribers.
Provides the fleet with a SECRET, GENSER, user-friendly network-centric, imagery delivery system.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

GALE-Lite

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- Generic Area Limitation Environment.
- Computer application used to display and manipulate intelligence information.
- Provides cartographic data management; user-definable visualization environment; space, time, and movement modeling; sensor modeling; and data fusion.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

GCCS-J/M (GENSER and SI)

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- Global Command and Control System.
- Maritime - receives, processes, displays, and manages data on the readiness of neutral, friendly, and hostile forces in order to execute the full range of Navy missions in near-real-time via external communication channels, local area networks (LANs) and direct interfaces with other systems.
- Joint - provides a robust and seamless C2 capability to the Combatant Commands, SECDEF, NMCC, CDRs, JFCs, and Service Component Commanders; offers vital connectivity to the systems the joint warfighter uses to plan, execute, and manage military operations. 
- Full-duplex General Service (GENSER) and Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) connectivity.

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B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

Turbulent Wave

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- Provides capability for real-time remote, shipboard access to national SIGINT collection and processing resources.
- Provides Seawitch and NSANET capabilities.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

NITES

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- Navy Integrated Tactical Environmental System.
- Software suite of METOC applications, services, and data servers that are used for both oceanographic and meteorological forecasting, weapon system performance prediction, and sensor detection/counter-detection capabilities.
- Used to produce detailed meteorological and oceanographic data displays (e.g., wind speed/direction, air pressures, sea-state) along with the effects of these physical environmental parameters on military operations.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

AN/UMQ-12

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- Mini rawinsonde system (MRS).
- Measures air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed, and wind direction in troposphere and lower stratosphere.
- Measurements based on the use of a free-flying expendable meteorological sonde (attached to a weather balloon), which transmits pressure, temperature, and humidity measurements to the AN/UMQ-12 over a radio link.
- Highly compact, portable system ideal for shipboard, mobile team, and field use.

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A. Describe the purpose/function.
B. How does the IDC use this system to support operations?

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- METOC Satellite Receiver Processor.
- Stand-alone environmental satellite ground receiver.
- Capable of receiving raw imagery data in the visible, IR, and water vapor wavelengths from both the military Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) and the NOAA TIROS polar orbiting satellites.
- Satellite pictures and a limited selection of weather charts can be received from the GOES satellites on the WEFAX channel.
- Digitally interfaced to the NITES 2002.