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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2025
- Source ID
- 0605100D8Z_6_0400_PB_2025
- Change Summary Explanation
- Changes in FY 2023 are due to SBIR/STTR and Cancelled accounts adjustments. FY 2025 - A reduction of $1.958 was applied to meet DoD overall funding reductions, which was spread to mitigate impact. +$14.760 was added for Kill Webs, JADC2 Development and Experimentation and an inflation adjustment of +$.420.
- Service Agency Name
- Office of the Secretary Of Defense
Entities
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
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