DHS S&T soliciting JamX 22 exercise participation

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) officials said the agency is seeking participants for the 2022 First Responder Electronic Jamming Exercise (JamX 22).

There has been a Request for Information (RFI) issued for the endeavor at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, April 25-29, 2022. It is open to industry, academia and federal organizations with anti-jamming technology solutions ready for testing and evaluation.

Officials said JamX 22 is organized in two parts. One is Operation Trinity, which is described as an operational exercise developed in partnership with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to assess the effectiveness of Resilient Communications Training for operational federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal first responders.

The other, Project Resilience, serves as an experiment with industry, academia and federal partners to assess tools and technologies identifying, locating and mitigating spectrum interference.

“Communications are a lifeline,” Sridhar Kowdley, JamX 22 director, said. “This counter-jamming research is essential to ensure highly resilient and available communications for the safety of the responders and the public they serve. The partnership with CISA for Operation Trinity and S&T’s Project Resilience will focus on not just technologies but also practical applications of tactics, techniques and procedures.”