Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC)
Abstract
The Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) program was established for the purpose of implementing the Department’s strategy to move to an enterprise-centric, distributed test capability that results in acquisition systems fielded with enhanced joint capabilities, reduced program costs, and improved acquisition timelines. 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 test and evaluation (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 in order to generate a realistic joint mission test environment for the system(s) being tested. JMETC is a widely applicable, persistent, service provider for the Department’s acquisition and net-centric programs. Key JMETC products include readily available connectivity over existing 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 the test and training communities. In turn, this integration capability enables combined test and training exercises. By linking distributed facilities, JMETC allows customers to efficiently evaluate their warfighting capability in a realistic joint mission 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 infrastructure 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 distributed 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2012
- Change Summary Explanation
- Service Agency Name
- Office of Secretary Of Defense
Related Documents
- Child Project: Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC)
- Child Accomplishment: Joint Mission Environment Test Capability