CenGen has developed and supported network emulation models and simulation that are scalable, versatile, and realistic. These laboratory-based emulation suites for programs with NRL, DARPA, and U.S. Army CERDEC include distributed execution and control to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of emerging tactical technologies that have been designed for various homogeneous and heterogeneous systems. By providing the realism of hardware-based systems at both the application and transport layers, our support in this area gives necessary data and insights during the R&D and the evaluation phases to ensure technology is mature and ready for field experimentation and deployment.

Our emulation laboratory capabilities and analysis support provides a rich set of features to support research, development, and evaluation of applications like Information Assurance solutions, MANET routing protocols, network coding algorithms, and reliability algorithms for multi-media applications (SA, chat, video, voice).

CenGen accomplished a number of high-risk challenges through the Tactical Automated Intrusion Detection Response (TAIDR) program: Created and validated a physical replication of the MANET environment; Defined metrics and methodology to assess various IA approaches in military, mobile environments (First to use application utility as metric); Developed an automated testbed control mechanism to enable effective testing of varied approaches; Developed well defined IA experimentation process and methodology that has proven highly effective in determining whether or not IA technology performance meets expected customer requirements and/or Go/No Go criteria for these programs; Developed real-time applications to automate testing, data collection, and analysis; Developed a test range that can be reconstituted quickly and which addresses the significant differences between mobile military networks and the wired internet that is the basis of current state-of-the-art modeling and simulation environments.