Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC)

Abstract

This program supports the Department's initiatives to defend the homeland, deter strategic attacks and aggression while prevailing in conflict, building enduring advantage, and building a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem. The Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) program provides a Department of Defense (DoD) enterprise-wide test capability to support system-to-system interoperability testing, mission-level environment testing, and cyber event operations, including cyber testing, cyber training, cyber experimentation, and cyber mission rehearsal. The JMETC program implements the infrastructure capabilities defined in the DoD “Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap” to provide acquisition program managers a robust nation-wide capability to “test like we fight”. The JMETC program provides a persistent, distributed test and evaluation (T&E) capability that supports system development to measure and improve interoperability performance and cyber resiliency, 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 provides test capability in support of RDT&E programs. By linking distributed facilities, as well as providing the necessary tools, services and subject matter expertise, the JMETC program allows acquisition programs to efficiently evaluate their warfighting capability in a realistic joint mission environment. The JMETC program has been aligned to advance the National Defense Strategy (NDS), to test the development of resilient, survivable, federated networks and information ecosystems from the tactical level up to strategic planning, as well as test and assess cyber defenses, building a more lethal force.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2024
Source ID
0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2024
Change Summary Explanation
The FY 2023 increase of $63.120 million is comprised of a realignment of $-0.380 for higher departmental priorities and a congressional add of $63.500 million to accelerate implementation and testing of Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) and the testing of kill webs and testing the cyber vulnerabilities and integration of trusted artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems in partnership with the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO). FY 2024 no funding change.
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

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Big Data
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Cyber Defense Techniques
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Cyberspace Operations
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Management
  • Information Systems
  • Information Warfare
  • Knowledge Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • 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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