Training and Exercises
Understand the threat. Then rehearse the decision.
Three initial courses and a tabletop exercise program, designed for organizations whose operations, investments, or missions depend on space systems.
Initial curriculum
Three courses, each aimed at a different gap.
The courses are built from the same analytic work that produces Direwolf's intelligence products. They give staff and leadership a shared, accurate vocabulary for the threat environment, so that intelligence, when it arrives, is understood and acted on.
Space Threat Fundamentals
An introduction to threats to space systems and the missions that depend on them: counterspace, RF interference, PNT disruption, and cyber threats to space systems, and why each matters to a mission.
Who it is for
Staff and leadership who need a shared, accurate picture of the threat environment before intelligence arrives.
Participants leave with
A working vocabulary for space threats, counterspace, RF and PNT interference, and space cyber threats.
Course outline available on request
Foreign Space Capabilities
An introduction to foreign space programs and capabilities: how foreign military and dual-use space programs are organized, what they field, and how to read their activity. Grounded in the same tradecraft used in Direwolf assessments.
Who it is for
Staff and leadership whose mission requires an accurate reading of foreign military and dual-use space programs.
Participants leave with
An understanding of the foreign programs and capabilities relevant to their mission.
Course outline available on request
Commercial Space Awareness
An introduction to the commercial space landscape for organizations that depend on it: the activity, actors, and interference that can affect commercial missions.
Who it is for
Operators and executives whose business depends on space, and the staff who support them.
Participants leave with
An understanding of what can affect a commercial mission and what to watch.
Course outline available on request
Tabletop exercises
You have a plan for a satellite anomaly or a GPS outage. Has anyone tested it?
A plan that has never been exercised is a plan you have not tested. A tabletop exercise places participants in a simulated space or cyber incident and requires them to decide, under time pressure and with incomplete information.
The initial format is a focused session of two to four hours built around simulated space and cyber incidents and the decisions they force.
The program will grow into sophisticated multi-day exercises. Those will incorporate orbital events, intelligence injects, cyberattacks, GPS disruption, jamming and spoofing, satellite anomalies, adversary activities, executive decision-making, and after-action reporting.
Today
A focused session of two to four hours
Two- to four-hour exercises involving simulated space and cyber incidents and decision-making. Scoped to the organization's mission and the decisions its people are responsible for.
Next
Multi-day exercises
Multi-day exercises with orbital events, intelligence injects, cyberattacks, GPS disruption, jamming and spoofing, satellite anomalies, adversary activities, executive decision-making, and after-action reporting.
Building toward-
Scenario
A simulated space or cyber incident, built around the organization's mission and its systems.
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Injects
New information arrives during the session and changes the picture: an orbital event, an anomaly, a signal, an intelligence report.
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Decisions
Participants decide under time pressure and with incomplete information, as they would during a real incident.
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After-action
Formal after-action reporting is part of the multi-day format the program is building toward: what was decided, what was missed, and what to change.
Audience
Who the training is for
The courses and exercises are written for the people who have to make decisions about space systems, and for the staff who support them.
- Government and national-security space organizations
- Defense primes
- Commercial satellite operators
- Aerospace and space technology companies
- Executives and operational staff at any organization that depends on space-domain awareness
- Approved allied and partner organizations, where legally permissible
Formats
Delivered where the people are
Direwolf travels for exercises and program work.
- Delivery
- On site at the customer's location, or virtually.
- Scope
- Each course or exercise is scoped to the organization's mission, its systems, and the decisions its people are responsible for.
- Handling
- Content is unclassified and, where required, handled in CUI-appropriate environments.
- Inquiries
- contact@direwolfspace.com
Outcomes
What participants leave with
Training is judged by what participants can do afterward, not by what was presented.
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A working vocabulary For space threats, counterspace, RF and PNT interference, and space cyber threats.
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An understanding of the relevant foreign programs The foreign programs and capabilities that matter to their mission.
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A rehearsed decision process For exercises, a decision process that has been run under pressure before it is needed.
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Formal after-action reporting For future multi-day exercises, a formal after-action report.
Book training
Tell Direwolf who needs to be trained and what decisions they are responsible for.
A course or exercise will be scoped to match.