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For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap by the program office responsible for the system that is under test, which should help defray sustainment costs for their virtual representations. This continual cycle of model-check-model will dramatically enhance available models and simulations, ultimately improving confidence in the insight provided by them. Over time, verification and validation data for virtual and constructive system representations will become more readily available since comparison of constructive models with virtual and real systems, and comparison of virtual systems with test data from real systems, will become available. There are numerous efforts within DoD to develop and maintain constructive models and virtual representations of systems and networks along with the required databases. The envisioned joint mission infrastructure will have to leverage on those activities, adding or modifying capabilities to meet the specific requirements for joint mission assessments. Because the M&S efforts being used were developed for other specific applications, it will be necessary to establish a comprehensive, yet efficient, accreditation process to ensure that existing capabilities are adequate for joint force assessments. Accreditation of individual models, as well as accreditation of the interactions required of those models, will be necessary. A structured process will be established to take advantage of existing M&S verification and validation (V&V) efforts, and to create additional V&V databases based on comparisons among constructive, virtual and live test events within the joint mission infrastructure. B.2.4.2 THREAT REPRESENTATIONS Development or modification of threat representations (threat weapons and command and control systems, as well as threat scenario development) will be required to support testing in a joint environment. Developing a joint force infrastructure capable of replicating joint mission environments will require close coordination with the intelligence community to develop virtual and constructive simulations of red forces for a range of potential operational scenarios with realistic signatures such as infrared, electro-optical and radio frequency. These threat representations must be maintained and made available to the joint mission infrastructure similar to the system representations. These threat representations must be integrated into both the live and virtual domains as applicable. B.2.4.3 ENVIRONMENT REPRESENTATIONS A critical aspect to the joint mission infrastructure is a common context. There must be a common understanding of the environment or the test results will be skewed. Representing and generating the natural environment in a standard, computer-intelligible fashion is a mammoth task. Each element of the environment – the Earth's shape, terrain, terrain features, urban areas, bathymetry, sea state, atmospheric conditions, and the weather – must be represented in a standard way. The Synthetic Environment Data Representation and Interchange Specification B-10 For Official Use Only Appendix B
For Official Use Only Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap (SEDRIS), a program run by the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), has established a process to standardize and unify the multitude of environment definitions, including those developed by non-DoD activities. Not only do these standards need to be adopted, but the Department also needs to re-energize the Modeling and Simulation Executive Agents for Terrain, Oceans, and Air and Space. The Department needs to ensure adequate investment is included in budgets to satisfactorily populate DMSO's Master Environment Library to support the conduct of testing in a joint environment. B.2.4.4 DEVELOPMENT AND TEST FACILITIES AND NETWORKS An overview of capability of systems engineering, test, training and experimentation facilities that can be integrated to contribute to testing in a joint environment includes: Joint Distributed Engineering Plant (JDEP): Navy Distributed Engineering Plant (NDEP): Center for Domain Integration: Air Force operational and developmental test bed Combined Test and Training Support Facility: Army test bed for C3 systems, mainly systems engineering, but expanding capabilities for DT testing Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC): multitude of labs beyond JDEP System of Systems Integration Lab: - Army distributed capability for Systems engineering and DT, support to OT and training for Future Combat System program) Service Battle Labs: can be linked together for force development experiments and training Marine Corps Systems Command: distributed C2 lab Joint Battle Center (JBC): JFCOM’s Joint C4ISR Battle Center (JBC) is an essential instrument to improve joint C2 warfighting capabilities by prototyping and assessing timely solutions to meet joint force capability needs and by conducting interoperability demonstrations under its Interoperability Technology Demonstration Center (ITDC). JBC provides end-to-end analysis and validation of functional capabilities through its operational and interoperability assessments early in the lifecycle of a program. The ITDC specifically addresses joint operational, system-of-systems, technical, software, and procedural interoperability. B-11 For Official Use Only Appendix B
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