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 Department of Defense’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. The JMETC program is funded within the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Management Support Budget Activity because it is intended to provide test capability in support of RDT&E programs. 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. On October 1, 2012, the Under Secretary Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD(AT&L)) directed Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) to take responsibility for operations and resources of the National Cyber Range (NCR). TRMC undertook management oversight of the NCR, including all operational activities and sustainment of resources, transitioning it from a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Science & Technology project to an operational capability supporting cyber test, experimentation, and training events. The NCR mission is to provide secure facilities, technology, processes, and workforce to rapidly create hi-fidelity, mission representative cyberspace environments and facilitate integration/federation of cyberspace T&E infrastructure in support of the TRMC Mission. In FY-14 the NCR demonstrated robust operational capability supporting 20 different events for a diverse set of customers including US Cyber Command, Joint Staff J-7, Director, Operational Test & Evaluation (DOT&E) and US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR). The NCR was critical to the successful execution of CyberFlag 14-1, CyberGuard 14-1, 14-2 and 14-3 and just completed CyberFlag 15-1 in the 1QFY15. In 3QFY14 the NCR team executed the first Cybersecurity Developmental Test & Evaluation (DT&E) event supporting a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP), the MQ-4C Triton Program. In the 1QFY-15 the NCR executed a second MDAP Cybersecurity DT&E Event in support of the P-8A Increment Three. In FY-15, a Systems of Systems Cybersecurity DT&E Event will be conducted involving triton, the P-8A and Tactical Mobile (TACMobile) Program. Additional events are planned in support of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation (CAPE), F-35 (Re-programming Center West) Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) Mission Space (JMS) Program and other acquisition and operational customers. Concurrent with these NCR Events are engineering activities to sustain and upgrade NCR Computing Resources, improve the automated software tool suite and improve operational capabilities to satisfy increasing customer demand. The Test Resource Management Center (TRMC) is the Department’s lead for the JMETC program, the National Cyber Range, and oversees both their development and operations.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2016
Source ID
0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2016
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 the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Computer Network Security
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Information Warfare
  • Marine Corps
  • Resource Management
  • Surveillance
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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