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Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap
their joint mission environments. Because these actions are critical to the successful execution
of this Roadmap, I further recommend:
1. The Deputy Secretary of Defense direct establishment of a common task-based language
derived from the UJTL, for concept development, functional analyses, JCIDS capabilities,
acquisition, T&E, training and experimentation, and mandate its use in all JCIDS documents.
2. The Chairman update his Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 3170.01D to
ensure all JCIDS CDD and CPD documents define, or reference the source for, the explicit joint
mission capability needed in task-based terms derived from the UJTL, and to provide for
feedback of T&E results to the FCBs as appropriate.
3. The USD(AT&L)-led Acquisition M&S Working Group, with other Office of the Secretary
of Defense (OSD) offices, the Services, and Defense Agencies, develop an Acquisition M&S
Master Plan that addresses the development or update, validation, and maintenance of models
and simulations to ensure needed virtual and constructive threat and system representations;
standard, readily available simulation environments; and identify required funding to support
systems engineering and T&E M&S requirements.
4. The ASD(NII), USD(AT&L), and DOT&E establish an Engineering and T&E Community
of Interest (COI) to ensure system engineering, and DT&E and OT&E data are made visible,
accessible, and understandable across the Services, Agencies, developers, and other parties.
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