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. In 2012, the National Cyber Range (NCR) transitioned from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC). The NCR mission is to provide secure facilities, technology, processes, and workforce to rapidly create hi-fidelity, mission representative cyberspace environments to conduct cyber test, experimentation, and training events. The NCR supports a wide-range of customers performing Developmental and Operational Testing, Cyber Mission Force Training and Certification, and support for operational contingencies. In FY 2016, the Department, as a result of a study conducted by DASD(C3&CB), recognized the magnitude of need for increased cyber test and training capacity and capability. Based on this and other inputs, the Department increased funding in the Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) in FY 17 to build out additional cyber T&E capacity based on the National Cyber Range (NCR) architecture. This increased capacity will also be available to conduct training for the Cyber Mission Force. The TRMC worked with the Services to identify facilities where this buildout could be accomplished most efficiently. They also considered additional criteria such as accessibility by acquisition programs, availability of qualified work force, utilities and network availability, timing, and expected cost. To date, TRMC and the Services have identified five sites that are potential candidates. We have begun detailed design in FY 17, to prepare for beginning the build-out in FY 18. Once complete, the Department will have well over four times the cyber test and training capacity offered by the current NCR. 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 test conduct. In order to meet the significant growth in requirements, TRMC will use the increased funding for FY 18 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, 2019
Source ID
0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2019
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
  • Engineering
  • Information Warfare
  • Resource Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Marine Propulsion Engineering and Naval Architecture

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control

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