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Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap
2.2.4 PARTNERSHIP ACROSS TEST, TRAINING, AND EXPERIMENTATION
Creating separate joint venues and joint mission infrastructures for systems engineering,
T&E, training, and experimentation is not effective, efficient, or affordable. At a hearing of
combined sub-committees of the House Armed Services Committee on March 18, 2004, Dr. Paul
W. Mayberry, Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness) testified:
“JNTC is a tremendous resource with value and benefit well beyond training. The “T” can
also stand for “testing.” The underlying pillars for JNTC are the same as those required for a
realistic operational test event. We must partner with the testing community to maximize our
commonality in the areas of instrumentation, data collection, cross-functional use of ranges,
as well as long-term range sustainment. The same arguments can be made for the
experimentation community, as they need to validate emerging operational concepts.”
It will be mutually beneficial to create a partnership between the systems engineering,
testing, training, and experimentation communities sharing LVC resources, but maintaining
independence between the separate missions. While the general requirements of systems
development, testing, training, and experimentation within the joint mission infrastructure are
similar, specific requirements for factors such as resolution, latency, etc., will likely be different
for many of the elements. For each community, the joint mission infrastructure should be
accredited for specific applications.
There are two areas of overlapping equities.
2.2.4.1 SHARED PROCESS/VENUES
The event planning and execution process for systems engineering, testing, training, and
experimentation events have much in common, and the venues where testing, training, and
experimentation events in the joint context are conducted are virtually identical. Department
infrastructure must be effectively utilized, and the shared use by testing, training and
experimentation customers presents a perfect opportunity to get the most effective use out of
existing and evolving infrastructure. Joint training has formed a mutually-beneficial partnership
with the T&E ranges, beginning with Millennium Challenge 2002, which provided early lessons
learned related to the issues associated with combined test, training, and experimentation. These
lessons laid the ground work for JNTC as an integrated LVC environment, and the lessons
continue proving the value of a common joint mission infrastructure for support of training, the
Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities
(DOTMLPF) process and system-of-systems testing.
JFCOM will continue to work with Services and combatant commands to improve the
approach to joint experimentation. The proposed JNTC networking (called the Joint Training
and Experimentation Networking (JTEN)) will provide the realistic, accessible training, systems
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