Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC)

Abstract

The Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) Program provides the infrastructure for distributed testing and evaluation (T&E) of systems during development. The JMETC program implements the infrastructure capabilities defined in the DoD’s “Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap” to provide acquisition program managers a robust nation-wide capability to “test like we fight.” JMETC provides a persistent distributed T&E capability that otherwise would not be readily available to Service/Component acquisition programs. This program is funded within the RDT&E Management Support Budget Activity because it is intended to provide test capability in support of RDT&E programs. JMETC creates a common corporate capability to link live systems with virtual and constructive representations to generate a realistic joint mission test environment for the system(s) being tested. JMETC is a widely applicable, persistent, service provider for Department acquisition and net-centric programs. Key JMETC products include readily available connectivity over existing Department networks, standard data transport solutions, tools and utilities for planning and conducting distributed integrations, and a reuse repository. This common integration capability, through the use of the Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA), provides compatibility between JMETC and the Joint National Training Capability (JNTC), streamlining reuse of technical resources across test and training communities. In turn, this enables combined test and training exercises. JMETC capabilities will migrate, along with other RDT&E capabilities, to a mature Global Information Grid (GIG) Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) Core. By linking distributed facilities, JMETC allows customers to efficiently evaluate their warfighting capability in a realistic joint environment. This enables a customer-defined joint mission test environment for systems engineering and testing, extensible to training and experimentation, in a timely and cost effective manner. JMETC’s institutional funding builds, maintains, and operates the JMETC, and pays for persistent availability of national connectivity for testing; data communications middleware; identification of interface standards; common software tools and components; and a data archive and reuse repository. It also funds JMETC program management, facilities, equipment, operating costs, and special studies and analysis related to test capabilities and infrastructure. Key attributes of the JMETC include: persistency; interoperability; reuse; various combinations of distributed capabilities (reconfigurable infrastructure to meet customer requirements); modeling and simulation (M&S) linkage; Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) test resource integration; and common support to both Service and Joint needs. System engineering, training, and experimentation all benefit from a corporate JMETC developed for T&E. The Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) is the Department’s lead for the JMETC program, and oversees both its development and its operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2011
Source ID
0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2011
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

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Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Communities
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Developmental Tests
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Navy
  • Resource Management
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Training
  • United States
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture

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