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 that supports system development, interoperability testing, and cyber testing which 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, as well as providing the necessary tools, services and subject matter expertise, 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. The NCR supports diverse set of customers performing Developmental and Operational Testing, Cyber Mission Force Training and Certification, and support for operational contingencies. 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. In order to meet the significant growth in requirements, TRMC will use the increased funding for FY 2018 to substantially increase cyber test and training capacity by 1) refurbishing the current NCR hardware that is nearing end-of-life and increasing computing capacity to support additional customers; 2) procuring and fielding additional enterprise computational and storage resources for JMETC’s Regional Service Delivery Points (RSDPs) capability; and 3) begin construction of a new high capacity cyber range similar to the NCR.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2018
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. • SRRB - Service Requirement Review Board - As part of the Department of Defense reform agenda, the incremental reduction accounts for consolidation and reduction of service contracts. • 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

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Command Control Communications
  • Computer Network Security
  • Control Systems
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Warfare
  • Resource Management
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture
  • Naval Mine Countermeasure Systems Development.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber

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