# Integrated Cyber and Electronic Warfare
**Entity class:** Army research architecture
**Aliases:** ICE
## Definition
**Integrated Cyber and Electronic Warfare (ICE)** was a U.S. Army CERDEC research program for common data contexts, standards, software-control mechanisms, and architectures that could coordinate cyber and electronic-warfare capabilities. It addressed the operational blur among cyber effects, radio-frequency systems, tactical networks, EW sensors, and electromagnetic operations.
## Relationships
- **developer:** Army RDECOM CERDEC, including the Intelligence and Information Warfare Directorate.
- **domains:** [[wiki/Cyberwarfare|Cyberwarfare]], [[wiki/Electronic Warfare|Electronic Warfare]], [[wiki/Signals Intelligence|SIGINT]], and [[wiki/Cyber-Electromagnetic Activities|CEMA]].
- **successor direction:** tactical-edge cyber/EW convergence, including ATTACC-related work.
- **disambiguation route:** [[wiki/ICE|ICE disambiguation]] and [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|intelligence environment]].
## Sources / Provenance
- [U.S. Army — Army looks to blend cyber and electronic warfare capabilities](https://www.army.mil/article/113678/army_looks_to_blend_cyber_electronic_warfare_capabilities_on_battlefield)
- [Army Technology — Protocols and architectures](https://api.army.mil/e2/c/downloads/317241.pdf)