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 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 the DoD 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, 2024
• Source ID: 0603941D8Z_3_0400_PB_2024
• Change Summary Explanation: The FY 2023 increase of $657.282 million is comprised of a realignment of $0.268 million for other Departmental priorities and Congressional adds to improve the following capabilities: 1) enhance hypersonic testing capabilities, 2) advance cybersecurity signal generation, 3) improve hypersonic thermal protection test equipment, 4) enhance hypersonic wave heat facilities, 5) upgrade electronicmagnetic spectrum test emitters, 6) upgrade electronicmagnetic spectrum sensor fusion, 7) improve airborne 5G, 8) upgrade 5G range instrumentation, 9) develop additional hypersonics sensor packages for RQ-4 and MQ-9 platforms, 10) advance directed energy airborne high-power testbed, 11) improve space-based range tracking, 12) advance 5th generation aerial target, 13) upgrade artificial intelligence hubs technology development, and 14) upgrade all-domain autonomous modeling and simulation. The top-line increase of $657.282M will provide enhanced capabilities and increased throughput to meet increasing test demand. The FY 2024 increase of $40.846 million is comprised of an economic assumption increase and an increase to address Department priorities in: 1) enhancement of critical defense microelectronics infrastructure testbeds, and 2) development of artificial intelligence T&E high-performance computing resources to support continued enhancement of artificial intelligence hubs technology.
• 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
• Kinetic Weapons
• Sensors
• Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems
• Aircrafts
• Artificial Intelligence
• Control Systems
• Data Analysis
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Military Aircraft
• National Security
• Parallel Computing
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Equipment
• Test Facilities
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Unmanned Underwater Vehicles
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Aerospace Test and Evaluation
• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.