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For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap Figure A.2. Secretary of Defense Reply to DOT&E of December 18, 2002 A-2 For Official Use Only Appendix A
For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap Appendix B – Needed Infrastructure B.1 INTRODUCTION It is seldom practical, and rarely affordable, to create a live test environment with all elements of a joint mission. Any set of joint missions will be complex because of the numbers and variety of combat systems and geographic space involved. B.2 REQUIRED CAPABILITY The infrastructure solution is to create the networking capability that effectively integrates live systems and forces with virtual and constructive representations of other necessary elements to generate a realistic test environment for the system(s) being tested. This infrastructure will provide a persistent, repeatable, operationally realistic joint mission environment in a timely and cost-effective manner for systems engineering, testing, training, and experimentation. To conduct a test event in a coherent and realistic joint operational context, three key elements must exist: defined joint missions; a core networked infrastructure that links LVC capabilities; and the LVC representations of the needed systems, threat, and physical environment. B.2.1 FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITY DESCRIPTION The process for planning for testing in a joint mission environment will be similar to T&E planning today. Planners will develop the PM’s T&E strategy and design tests for the system using a combination of other friendly interacting systems, the threat environment, and the physical environment necessary to define the mission environment and achieve specific test objectives. A persistent, repeatable, operationally realistic networked infrastructure will provide the ability to create much more complex and realistic test environments than are currently available. Figure B.1 is an overview of the common joint mission infrastructure. The top layer illustrates the library of available virtual and constructive representations that, linked together, provide for generation of the required mission environments. Each additional layer represents a specific mission environment. Working from a persistent infrastructure of connectivity, common data exchange middleware, data description standards, common archiving, configuration and execution tools, test planners will be able to select from the library of virtual and constructive resources to supplement available live systems. System availability and required fidelity will determine the appropriate combination of LVC representation. Use of this infrastructure will permit rapid, facile and cost efficient creation and execution of tests over a full range of required test environments. B-1 For Official Use Only Appendix B
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