Test and Evaluation Science and Technology

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to defend the homeland, deter strategic attacks and aggression, prevail in conflict, build enduring advantage, and build a resilient joint force and defense eco system. The Test and Evaluation/Science and Technology (T&E/S&T) program seeks out and develops test technologies to keep pace with evolving weapons technologies. Aligned with the National Defense Strategy, this program is critical to ensure that the Department of Defense (DoD) has the ability to adequately test the advanced systems that will be fielded in the future, building a more lethal force. To meet this objective, the T&E/S&T Program performs the following activities: • Exploits new technologies and processes to meet important test and evaluation (T&E) requirements. • Expedites the transition of new technologies from the laboratory environment to the T&E community. • Leverages industry advances in equipment, modeling and simulation, and networking to support T&E. Additionally, the T&E/S&T Program examines emerging T&E requirements resulting from Joint Service initiatives to identify T&E technology needs and develop a long-range roadmap for technology insertion. The program leverages and employs applicable applied research efforts from the highly developed technology base in theDoD laboratories and test centers, other Government agencies, and industry to accelerate development of new test capabilities. The program outreaches and engages academia to address test technology challenges in DoD testing, advancing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and other minority serving institutions. This program provides travel funds for T&E/S&T program oversight, special studies, analyses, and strategic planning related to test capabilities and infrastructure. The T&E/S&T Program aligns with the science and technology (S&T) Communities of Interest (COI) to prepare the T&E community to test warfighting capabilities that emerge from priority S&T investments. The T&E/S&T Program utilizes Advanced Technology Development funding because which supports the development and demonstration of high payoff technologies for current and future DoD test capabilities.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2023
• Source ID: 0603941D8Z_3_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President's Budget request did not include out-year funding. FY 2022 Congressional addition of $198.000M improves the following capabilities: 1) upgrade space ground testing facilities by developing new test technologies enabling space systems to be more reliably and accurately tested on the ground prior to launch; 2) upgrade space test lab and range infrastructure to validate space domain awareness enhancements, as well as capabilities to support dedicated tracking and imaging of systems as part of the development of a National Space Test and Training Complex; 3) advance large energy national shock tunnels to assess aerothermal and dynamic event effects on hypersonic, ballistic missile defense, and strategic systems and advanced sensors; 4) upgrade electromagnetic spectrum lab and test range infrastructure to prototype 5G test environments needed to assess commercial 5G operation impacts on critical test data transmission in operationally relevant test environments; 5) upgrade directed energy lab and test range infrastructure to develop required instrumentation on the missile and sUAS target to assess High Power Microwave (HPM) effects; 6) upgrade target lab and test range infrastructure to continue the development and fielding of next-generation aerial target platforms; 7) improve capacity for hypersonics flight test to augment hypersonic launch capabilities and continue the prototype development of rapid, responsive flight test capabilities; FY 2022 decrease of $10M reflects a congressionally directed reduction of funds due to excessive growth.
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Cyber
• Electronic Warfare
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Ground and Sea Platforms
• Sensors
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems
• Aircrafts
• Artificial Intelligence
• Collision Avoidance Systems
• Control Systems
• Data Analysis
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Electronically Scanned Array
• Global Positioning Systems
• Information Systems
• National Security
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Facilities
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Psychometric Testing or Psychological Assessment.