Non-Kinetic Operations

Drag each Service logo to its perspective IW/IO definition:

Air Force – The employment of military capabilities in and through the information environment to deliberately affect adversary human and system behavior and preserve friendly freedom of action during cooperation, competition, and conflict.

Army – The Information Advantage (IA) and Decision Dominance (DD) doctrinal framework, where IA is a condition when a force holds the initiative in terms of relevant actor behavior, situational understanding, and decision-making using all military capabilities through the conduct of Information Advantage Activities (IAA) and DD as a desired stat in which a commander can sense, understand, decide, act, and assess faster and more effectively than an adversary by gaining and maintaining positions of relative advantage, including IA.

Navy – To deliver decision-quality information, enable freedom of maneuver in all warfighting domains, and integrate fires, whether projected through the network or delivered kinetically, for hard-kill or soft-kill.

Non-kinetic and non-lethal actions include logical, electromagnetic, or behavioral means.

True

What are the six IW IRCs of the Air Force?

Information operations (IO)
Electromagnetic Spectrum Operations (EMSO)
Public affairs
Weather (WX)
Intelligence (INTEL)
Cyberspace operations (CYBER)

IW IRCs are kinetic and non-kinetic capabilities that can have both lethal and non-lethal effects.

False

Drag and drop each term on the line next to the correct definition:

Electronic support – Actions to search for, intercept, identify, and locate sources of intentional and unintentional radiated electromagnetic energy.

Electronic attack (EA) – The use of electromagnetic energy, directed energy, or antiradiation weapons to attack personnel, facilities, or equipment.

Electronic protection (EP) – Techniques designated to protect personnel, facilities, and equipment form the effects of friendly or enemy employment of EA or other electromagnetic spectrum capabilities.

The Electromagnetic Spectrum Control Authority (EMSCA) is responsible for integrated non-kinetic effects planning, coordination, synchronization, deconfliction, and assessment in the AOC.

False

Drag and drop each term on the line next to the correct definition.

Precision jamming – Focuses more power at specific frequencies, making it more effective against targets and at a greater range.

Deception jamming – The deliberate radiation. Re-radiation, alteration, absorption enhancement, or reflection of electromagnetic energy intended to mislead hostile forces.

Brute force (barrage) jamming – A technique that attempts to jam multiple frequencies, or an entire bandwidth of frequencies, at once.

_____ is how much of a radar return the platform gives off and how big of a target it shows it appears to be.

Radar cross section

Since EW is non-lethal in nature, standard rules of engagement do not apply.

False

This organization defends the DoDIN, supports joint force commanders with cyberspace operations, and defends the nation from significant attacks.

U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM)

The Mission defense team (MDT) is the primary element of USCYBERCOM’s DAF cyber protection team.

False

The layers of the OSI model for networking are:

Physical, datalink, network, transport, session, presentation, application

The _____ layer of C-IPOE provides identification by relating how individual or groups are portrayed in cyberspace (screen names, IP addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, code signatures).

Cyber-persona

The mesh network topology is the most dependable of all.

True

The two types of counterspace operations are counter-ISR operations and counter-missile operations.

False

_____ is the combatant command responsible for military space operations.

U.S. Space Command (USSSPACECOM)

The functional capabilities of space situational awareness are:

Characterization, Detect/Track/Identify, Threat Warning and Assessment, Data Integration and Exploitation

The two fundamental types of geolocation are time difference of arrival (TDOA) and frequency difference of arrival (FDOA).

True

Covert operations are _____.

Operations conducted where it is known what was done, but not who or how it happened.

The five global ISR disciplines are:

Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Measurement and Signature Intelligence (MASINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Open-source Intelligence (OSINT)

The NSA is responsible for HUMINT and IMINT support to military operations.

False

The AOC division is responsible for translating operational-level guidance into tactical planning through the ATO process.

Combat Plans Division (CPD)

This numbered Air Force is also known as the Air Force’s Information Warfare Numbered Air Force.

16^th Air Force

Military Information Support Operations (MISO) are planned operations to convey selected information and indicators to foreign audiences.

True

Effective public affairs is the responsibility of _____

The Commander

The three categories of MILDEC that support joint operations are: _____.

Joint MILDEC, deception in support of operations security (DISO), tactical deception (TAC-D)

OPSEC is the process that secures both classified and unclassified information from exposure to adversaries.

False

What are the two categories of targeting?

Deliberate and dynamic

Match each target characteristic with its description.

Cognitive control and information – Features that describe how some targets think, process information, or exercise control functions.
Environmental – Features that describe the effect of the environment on the target and its surroundings.
Functional – Features that describe what the target does and how it does it.
Physical – Features that describe what a target is.
Temporal – Describes the targets vulnerability to detection, attack, or other engagement in terms of time available.

Target vetting determines whether a target remains a viable element of a target system and whether prosecution of that target complies with the law of war.

False

What is the primary execution tool for non-kinetic operations?

Non-kinetic duty officer (NKDO) synch matrix

The Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) provides planning and direction, collection, processing and exploitation, analysis, and dissemination.

True

A resolution cell is the smallest area of airspace in which a radar cannot distinguish between multiple targets.

True

This layer of the atmosphere is the most important for long distance communication.

Ionosphere

The three basic antenna categories are:

Directional, omnidirectional, semi-directional

How many basic types of multiple access systems are there?

5 (frequency division multiple access (FDMA), time division multiple access (TDMA), code division multiple access (CDMA), orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA), and spatial division multiple access (SDMA))

Non-Kinetic Operations

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