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For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap and Agency test sites, training, and depot/system manager locations; acquisition program capabilities; and from industry. This will provide a distributed network of capabilities available to a vast array of users with very diverse requirements, not discrete networks or network managers serving exclusive interests. The Joint Theater Air Missile Defense Office has made regular use of the baseline JDEP capability as a development and T&E resource. During Millennium Challenge 2002, JFCOM used distributed networking and TENA for linking T&E ranges and other resources, to demonstrate the feasibility of the joint training concepts planned for the JNTC. In the summer of 2004, JNTC conducted a major joint training exercise using distributed resources, centered around the Combined Joint Task Force Exercise 04-2. This exercise also was a major demonstration of combining joint training exercises with T&E, including follow-on OT&E (FOT&E) of Aegis software upgrades, and the participation of five JT&E projects. There are other communities of interest that need access to the same (or a subset of the same) universe of capabilities. A May 2004 article in Signal, referencing comments at an Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) “West 2004” conference in February 2004, stated: “Rear Adm. Thomas E. Zelibor, USN, Director, Space, Information Warfare, Command and Control Division, called for a joint testing domain that would link all the Service laboratories and test facilities. This would allow testers to plug in all of their boxes to determine whether they “play joint.” Customers would reap dividends in the battlespace. Building in certain characteristics will permit composing whatever is needed without resorting to middleware, he continued. “It’s not plug and play; it’s plug and fight,” Adm. Zelibor declared.” This roadmap makes a strong business case for the priority development of the core connecting infrastructure capability that will enable testing in a joint environment, and is the overarching capability without which achievement of the desired force transformation will be much more difficult and costly. The objective is to provide a universal persistent capability for all acquisition programs, including Service-specific smaller acquisition programs. There is a significant common need for a persistent, robust distributed systems engineering and test network that can link the specific remote sets of HITL, M&S, and other resources with the live system in development to accomplish the systems engineering or testing required for a spectrum of transformational initiatives, as well as to support training exercises and experimentation. Figure 3 illustrates various specific processes and initiatives needing this common capability. 16 For Official Use Only
For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap Constructive Virtual Live JBMC2 Roadmap AT&L SE Policy SE Interop IA DT&E BMD Cert T&E T&E Contractor Experimen- T&E Exercises tation OT&E Training JT&E Net Centric EPP IO Range Study IO Roadmap T2 Impl. Plan Figure 3. Overarching Single Solution for Broad Spectrum of Needs The roadmap promotes full development and deployment of a persistent, robust distributed test system to link a large number of diverse LVC resources (Figure 4) that will enable joint operating environments and provide all the essential tools for systems engineering, testing, training, and experimentation. This overarching capability is the linchpin required for testing in a joint environment as well as systems engineering and a number of other pivotal requirements. Evaluation Continuum Pre-Systems Acquisition Systems Acquisition Sustainment Concept Dev Sys Design System Dev - DT&E/OA OT&E Training/Exercises Constructive Joint Environment Distributed Network Infrastructure Live Virtual Battle Tng Ranges MRTFB IWCs DMSs Labs JDEP JNTC ISTFs HITLs OARs Figure 4. Core Infrastructure Capability Distributed Network of Test, Training and Systems Engineering Facilities This distributed networking of capabilities will serve as a valuable systems engineering and testing asset for PMs across the acquisition lifecycle to achieve the joint mission requirements defined by the CDD and CPD. From Concept Refinement through Operations and Support, the system’s interaction with the joint mission environment will be evaluated along an evaluation continuum (Figure 5) using various LVC combinations. 17 For Official Use Only
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