The Persistent Cyber Training Environment - Cyber Mission Force Training for the 21st Century

摘要

The Persistent Cyber Training Environment (PCTE) will provide the DoD cyberspace workforce the capability to conduct cyberspace training, exercises, mission rehearsals, experimentation, certifications, as well, as the ability to assess and develop cyber tactics, techniques, and procedures for missions that cross boundaries and networks. PCTE will provide the cyberspace workforce with a training environment that emulates a realistic operational environment that provides scope (types of nodes), scalability (number of nodes), and fidelity (level of representation of nodes) driven by training objectives and user defined specifications. The PCTE Objectives are: a) decrease the time to produce and present training scenarios, b) increase the training throughput, c) increase the quality of training, and d) increase the reuse of existing training scenarios and emulate environments. PCTE will be a hybrid cloud simulation environment composed of five regional compute and storage sites. These sites will be deployed from the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018 until the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2019. PCTE will initially be accredited at the Secret level. PCTE will eventually be accredited a multiple classifications levels from Unclassified to Top Secret SCI. This paper will explain what PCTE is, how it is being developed, what has been accomplished, and where the program is going.