Located at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, Neb., US Strategic Command (US STRATCOM) is one of nine unified commands in the Department of Defense. One of the components of STRATCOM is the US Cyber Command, which is responsible for planning, coordinating, integrating, synchronizing, and directing activities to operate and defend the Department of Defense information networks, and, when directed, conducts full-spectrum military cyberspace operations in order to ensure U.S. and allied freedom of action in cyberspace, while denying the same to our adversaries.

SCALABLE is under contract with STRATCOM to adapt the EXata/Cyber simulation platform to meet some very specific training needs. This cyber training system will enable users to:

• Build detailed software virtual networks comprised of both standard routers, switches, hubs, wireless access points, base stations, and mobile users, and customized DoD-specific communications equipment 
• Control per-layer and per-event animation in 2D and 3D to visualize communications behavior
• Leverage extensible libraries that model encryption, authentication, key distribution and certificate management, wormhole attacks, network intrusion, and other adversaries
• Learn about eavesdropping, radio jamming attacks, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks