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For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap combined/joint warfighting capabilities" and "Transforming the Joint Force"; and the Quadrennial Defense Review's (QDR) pillar for "Strengthening Joint Operations". 1.2 GOAL The Department will be able to conduct adequate, realistic, and timely T&E in a joint environment to enable informed decisions regarding development, acquisition, and deployment of joint warfighting systems or systems-of-systems. 1.3 SCOPE The objective of this roadmap is to define the changes that will position T&E capabilities to fully support adequate T&E of warfighting capabilities developed under new capabilities-based acquisition methods in the appropriate joint mission environment. Testing in a joint environment requires changes in the following areas: − Test and evaluation methodology and processes. − A networking T&E infrastructure able to generate the joint mission environment. − Policy and regulations to implement testing in a joint environment as a Department-level policy, and institutionalize this expanded T&E capability. − Prudent organizational recommendations and a Department-wide common business process to support the networking infrastructure. − Initial resourcing to begin development and implementation. 1.4 KEY DEFINITIONS − "Testing in a Joint Environment" – A more accurate description of the capability this roadmap will address than the title of the SPG paragraph, "Joint Testing in Force Transformation". The report avoids the term "joint testing" because this terms connotes testing that requires participation of more than one Service, which is not always true, and is easily confused with the Joint Test and Evaluation (JT&E) program. − "Testing" and Test and Evaluation (T&E) – The term "testing" (or test) is used for simplicity/brevity in some cases. Throughout the context of this report, the term "testing", where applied, is synonymous with T&E. T&E is used as a collective term for DT&E and OT&E when used alone, while DT&E and OT&E will be used to distinguish when needed. Joint interoperability certification testing is included. 2 For Official Use Only
For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap − "Joint Mission Environment" – The operational context in which the capability being developed must perform. − "Joint Mission Infrastructure" – Collective term for the hardware/software – the combination of representations of friendly and enemy forces and the geophysical environment, as well as the supporting infrastructure, required to generate the joint mission environment necessary for capability development and T&E. 3 For Official Use Only
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