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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
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Appendix B