tThT I JA 88TFlED c gs - - 9 i·jl C I · • t r ' L EXERCISE MIGHTY DERRINGER COMMUNICATIONS OBSERVATIONS SITE CITY • •• ·· • '·'· r - _ sy 1- 1vorL•o j all it iti rirv inr there were no major type problems The following comments represent items in the minor category of significance The establishment of communications deiayed The advance party arrived party The commo techs were all at been helpful if their efforts could between the sites sooner at the Camp Atterbury site was somewhat at about the same time as the main the Franklin location It would have have been better coordinated and split Cellular telephones could have been used by key personnel in the area for initial coordination but were not KY-71 operations were slow getting up due to the absence of strapping option documents which were still with commo personnel in Franklin instead of personnel at the site KY-71 experienced problem going secure with calls initiated from it 1 1 Incoming calls were not a problem Appears to be a technical problem somewhere in _the electronics of the equipment Initial problem with telephone 8 line rotary with incoming calls Problem was that players had been given numbers that were in error with a couple of digits inverted The field organization communications staff official seemed to have difficulty in getting information from technicians on progress status of the communications setup -i ' There appeared to be a sense of reluctance on the part of commo technicians to discuss commo matters with exercise monitors Secure facsimile equipment ·compatibility among various agencies involved in the exercise was lacking in some cases DOE uses the RICOH 3312 standard while some other agencies use the Valutec standard The two are not compatible FBI experienced some problems with their secure fax which turned out to be the result of overload of the AC power in the building and resulting low voltage fluctuations This was overcome by placing the load on a large generator FEMA experienced some initial problems in getting their transportable microwave system operational They also experienced some problems as a result of telephone company lines with split pairs -· • MIGHTY DERRINGER COMMUNICATIONS OBSERVATIONS KY71 Secure Voice and Facsimile does not work well on the standard 8-access telephone circuits These circuits in NV are the least expensive routes and are not suited for reliable consistent data transfer and synchronous ock-up_ NEST advance party installed their DES repeater in a pre-positioned location that was within the perimeter of the military control zone The refuel effort created interference to operations of the fon1ard observers Access was closed for the DES-NEST team The location behind Building 2201 has been used as a NEST communications repeater location on previous exercises and·the antennas were al ready erected NEST microwave tenninal for the TOC to the forward CP working point experienced major failure and had to be replaced or repaired This same link was also down for four 4 hours during the early device diagnostic phase due to a multiplex failure at the working point tenninal Later the TOC terminal receiver on the microwave was replaced due to a noisy output NEST DES radio repeaters originally located at the forward military repeater site was moved to the preferred location Building 2201 once the area was secured This improved hand-held radio coverage on -all three nets 1 • RF compatibility during the peak usage time created no operational problems for any agency in the exercise One military group had minor open squelch noise but d1d not affect communications The NEST player telephone system worked very well quick and service was very good The •in sta11atfon went very The NEST DOE players in co1l111 unications required more telephone circuits early in the activity I'm not sure tbat all alternatives were examined closely as there was some simple solutions ··· -··---- ------·- -- UNCLASSIFIED ·' I 1 •· •· I PERSONAL COMMENTS I The DOE NEST player did not corrmunicate the operational status unless you him HP nlso coordinated telephone service with the NTS Telephone Company rather than observing protocol · ' '' n I It was obvious that the NEST corrmunications team was prepared for two-location support This limited the number of workers available for the initial equipment installation Those people worked very hard and long which could result ·in stress and ultimate errors It seems the best evaluation that could be made of a NEST include a qualified electronic person who was not tied to management responsibility or CPAF pressure The input by Vic Berniklaw for Corrmunications would give an unbiased events whether they be good or bad operation would the team through someone like response to actual The CATCOM network had·prob1ems handling all the various input port traffic once all the users came on line In summary this was the best NEST conmunications exercise that I have observed It should be noted that some of the set-up was relatively easy and helped relieve the workload If the access to the staging area and the contro1 point had been geographically separated from the TOC I'm not sure enough manpower would have 1 en available for a timely set-up I I I I I ' i i I f