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-15 the NCR demonstrated robust operational capability supporting 30 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 15-1, CyberGuard 15-1, 15-2 and 15-3. In second quarter FY 2015 the NCR team executed the first Cybersecurity Table Top Exercise for the P-8A Poseidon Maritime Surveillance Aircraft assisting in their planning requirements for their Developmental Test & Evaluation (DT&E) events. In FY 2015, the demand for NCR in support of Operational, Testing and Training Customers has increased significantly. The NCR is supporting current military operations and is preparing to conduct an event in support of ongoing operational contingencies. The NCR has conducted Cyber Mission Force Exercise, Training and Certification Events in support of US Cyber Command including Pacific Sentry, Cyber Knight and Cyber Flag 15-1. The NCR has executed several events in support of Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP) and Major Automated Information System (MAIS) Acquisition Programs not limited to and including the Army Command Post Computing Environment (CP CE), the Air Force Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC) Mission Space (JMS) Program and the Navy P-8A Poseidon, Triton MQ-4C and Tactical Mobile (TACMobile) Programs. In addition, in FY 2015 an Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) was awarded to evaluate options to replace End of Service/End of Life Rack Servers and Upgrade Storage Components and reassess Risk Management Framework (RMF) Controls to Assess and Authorize the NCR in FY 2016. Additional NCR capacity will be added in FY 2016 and FY 2017 to support increasing demand from both the Testing and Training Communities. Increased funding in FY 2016 will be used to expand capacity for cyber test and training. The strategy for accomplishing this is three fold: 1) refurbish the NCR hardware, thus increasing compute and storage capacity; 2) purchase and install additional Regional Service Delivery Points (RSDPs), thus increasing capacity for cyber testing; and 3) begin construction of a new high capacity cyber range, similar to the NCR thus increasing capacity for cyber test and training. 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. TRMC will use the increased funding for FY 2017 to significantly increase cyber test capability by significantly increasing NCR computing capability using a distributed methodology. TRMC will also pursue increased computing power for JMETC, further increasing DoD cyber test capability. These actions will provide increased capacity for cyber testing with added cyber event support to the experimentation and training communities. In addition, TRMC will use a portion of these funds to increase vulnerability assessment capability for DoD systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2017
Source ID
0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2017
Change Summary Explanation
• Internal strategic efficiency reductions in management headquarters funding and staffing for better alignment and to provide support to a smaller military force. • Departmental Efficiency Adjustment • Economic assumption reduction • National Cyber Range (NCR) expansion to address increases in cyber test requirements.
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 Systems
  • Computer Network Security
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Information Warfare
  • Resource Management
  • Space Operations
  • Surveillance
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Vulnerability
  • Warfare

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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