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; supporting system development, interoperability testing, and cyber testing; that otherwise would not be readily available to Service/Component acquisition programs. USD (AT&L) directed TRMC to take responsibility for operations and resources of the National Cyber Range (NCR) beginning October 1, 2012. The Director of TRMC assigned NCR to JMETC. The JMETC 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. To support the DoD guidance on cyber defense and attack operations, the JMETC environment includes a distributed cyberspace interoperability testing capability for systems under test. 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, standardized data transport solutions, tools and utilities for planning and conducting distributed integrations, DoD corporate distributed testing expertise, 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 acquisition programs 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 and development of interface standards; common software tools and components; and a 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 to include distributed cyber testing); modeling and simulation (M&S) linkage; Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) test resource integration; and distributed test support to satisfy 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, 2015
Source ID
0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2015
Change Summary Explanation
• Strategic efficiency reductions in management headquarters funding and staffing for better alignment and to provide support to a smaller military force.
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Improvised Explosive Devices
  • Infrared Countermeasures
  • Resource Management
  • Standards
  • Surveillance
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Training
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Cyber

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