Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program
Abstract
Joint Investment and Modernization Projects: - Continued development of the initial unit and integration with NEWEG project test capability of the Advanced Dynamic Transmitter Array (ADTRA) project to provide a complex, dynamic radio frequency (RF) threat environment at the Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF) to test advanced aircraft against EW threats. - Completed the preliminary and final design of the FLY-out System for the Advanced Range Tracking and Imaging System (ARTIS) project to provide an integrated next generation suite of optical tracking systems to increase performance, reduce costs and establish secure reliable optical tracking capability on DoD open-air ranges. - Completed System Requirements Reviews for both systems of the Advanced Vehicle Durability Testing (AVDT) project that develops a multi-axle vehicle chassis simulator and a drive train simulator at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD in order to test 4 and 5 axle vehicle performance and reliability. - Completed critical design review and risk reduction for the Advanced Weapons Effects Test Capability (AWETC) project to develop a capability to more accurately measure fragment characteristics of explosive weapons (2mm size and above) and more accurately estimate collateral damage distances. - Completed Requirements and Project Planning for all subprojects and Preliminary Design for the Guardian subproject for the Autonomy, Integration and Teaming (AIT) project to develop the capability to safely operate Unmanned and Autonomous aerial vehicles in controlled airspace. - Completed requirements development and project planning for the Autonomous Systems Test Capability (ASTC) project that develops test capability for DoD autonomous ground systems. - Completed development and Factory Acceptance Testing for CLPS unit #1 of the Closed Loop PESA Simulator (CLPS) project to develop a closed-loop radar system that will closely replicate the performance of a widely fielded Western Pacific (WESTPAC) long-range surface-to-air missile (SAM) system. - Finalized procurement and delivery of the G550 AEW aircraft and completed PDR #1 for the Commercial Derivative Aircraft Based Instrumentation Telemetry System (CBITS) project provides expanded telemetry support for aircraft and missile defense testing in inter-range and broad ocean area weapons testing. Evaluations of the PDR design indicated the design would not satisfy the complete system specifications required to support the Concept of Operation Use Cases. - Completed work on upgrades focusing on correlation with Western Test Range open air systems for the Common Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Threat Environment Model for Long Range Strike (LRS) Family of Systems project which improves constructive mission-level models (Suppressor and ESAMS) to evaluate LRS Family of Systems survivability performance against a modern threat Integrated Air Defense System. - Continued site activation at 6 ranges for the completed F-22 configuration deliveries. Initiated software upgrade to Windows 10. Continued the Interim Contractor Support contract to provide initial support for the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) project that establishes a high dynamic, sub-meter, military standard (MILS) capable range instrumentation system. - Completed fielding at SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, CA and supported USS Secure Serial 7 and 8 test events for the Cyber Test Analysis and Simulation Environment (Cyber TASE) project that provides the ability to test enterprise level IT systems against increasingly robust Cyber threats. - Provided support to Test and Evaluation/Science and Technology (T&E/S&T) Program efforts for the Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) project that that provides very short pulse neutron effects test capability for certification and survivability testing of new circuit card designs. - Completed risk reduction under the Enhanced Solutions Process (ESP) for the Direct Inject Electro-Optical-Infrared System (EO-IR). This proposal provides a test capability for high speed, coordinated EO/IR sensor stimulation to ensure comprehensive testing of sensor fusion algorithms for aircraft and helicopters. - Contract awarded and System Requirements Review completed on the Direct Inject Jammer Common Operating Picture (DIJCOP) project that provides real-time awareness, data collection and analysis of DIJ health, status and geolocation information for both White and Red Cell operations at JRTC, Ft Polk, LA and JMRC, Hohenfels, Germany. - Completed requirements development, risk reduction and preliminary design for key HEU elements. Completed test casting of a depleted uranium safety block to confirm production process prior to casting with HEU on the Fast Burst Reactor Upgrade (FBRU) project that replaces the Highly Enriched Uranium HHEU) fuel for the existing FBR with new fuel (seven rings and two safety blocks) to test missile components to required levels of short-pulse neutrons simulating Nuclear Weapons Effects. - Completed initial prototype development finalizing design for the Global Position System Localized EW Emitter (GPS LEWE) project to provide low energy, vehicle mounted GPS jamming capability for testing of ground vehicle communications and navigation systems against GPS jamming. - Continued design activities on the G-Range Weather Effects project that upgrades the three inch G-range test track at AEDC to provide a small scale dust, rain, and snow erosion hypersonic test capability. -Continued the development of requirements and started design activities for the High Altitude LIDAR Atmospheric Sensing (HALAS) system that provides DOD launch and flight test ranges with improved ability to measure atmospheric conditions to reduce uncertainty and improve launch and recovery operations. - Continued design work on the Holloman AFB High Speed Test Track (HHSTT) to provide a full scale rain erosion capability to validate vehicle structural designs and qualify hypersonic weapon systems for flight in an open air environment. - Continued design activities for the heater pit construction and initiated refractory brick procurement. Source selection for the system integration contract completed and work started to complete component designs and start ordering long lead items for the Hypersonic Test Capability Improvement Project (Phoenix) to provide a clean air, variable Mach ground test capability for hypersonic system prototypes from Mach 4 to Mach 7.5 at Arnold Engineering Development (AEDC) Complex, TN. - Completed integration of five threat command posts at the Electronic Combat Range, China Lake, CA. for the Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) Enhancements project that fields high-priority, threat-representative Command Post (CP) models to open air test ranges. - Continued early operational capability fielding at NAS Patuxent River, MD and Edwards AFB, CA for the Integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry (iNET) Project Block I capability to develop a network-enhanced aeronautical telemetry capability for T&E ranges and facilities. - Completed analysis and designs required for supported EW projects on the Integrated Technical Evaluation and Analysis of Multiple Sources (ITEAMS) activities to provide detailed analysis and validation of threat system designs and operational techniques for integration into ongoing electronic warfare projects. - Completed EW investment roadmap on the Joint Electronic Warfare T&E Study (JETS) developed a high level follow-on investment strategy to the 2010 Tri-Service EW Test Capability Study (TEWTCS) to maintain and advance air superiority as a critical component of EW Air Dominance and the National Defense Strategy. - Installed Knowledge Management capabilities at Edward AFB, CA. for the Joint Strike Fighter Knowledge Management, Big Data Analytics project establishes next-generation big data analytics and knowledge management capabilities utilizing the latest in virtualization technologies, methodologies, and best practices for efficient and effective use of T&E data. - Completed requirements development and project planning. Initiated development and testing of target boards for small UAVs and subsonic cruise missiles to support Service prototype testing on the Mobile High Energy Laser Measurement (MHELM) project to support testing of directed energy weapon systems. - Completed CDS network environment and multi-level desktop for the Multi-Level Secure Joint/Coalition Network Environment (MLS-JCNE) project providing a DoD multi-level secure and cross-domain data management T&E network environment at the TRMC JMETC SYSCON, NAS Patuxent River and multilevel workstation for cross-domain data management at the Manned Flight Simulation Facility, NAS Patuxent River. . - Completed requirements development and project planning on the Mission System Test Capability (MSTC) project that develops the capability to support integration and interoperability testing of Multi-Function Advanced Data Link (MADL) in a ground test, simulation environment. - Completed development, initial assembly and test on the Mid-Pressure Arc Heater (MPAH) project that expands the H2 Hypersonic Test Facility at Arnold Engineering Development (AEDC) Complex, TN to provide higher enthalpy at the mid-pressure altitudes to enable ground materials testing of components of hypersonic systems. - Continued development on the M&S for Weather Effects on Hypersonic Systems project that provides a database of realistic and relevant weather conditions as a basis for ground test requirements, and develops advanced material response models validated with improved ground test data to predict weather erosion in flight. - Provided NCWTEE servers to China Lake, CA for the Network Centric Weapon T&E Environment (NCWTEE) project that establishes the capability to test and evaluate network centric weapons in a distributed end-to-end simulation environment. Completed Increment 2 Datalink development and continued development of digital scene generation capability. Supported Joint Tactical Attack Controller developmental testing from the NCWTEE Lab. - Completed Full Operational Capability at NAS Patuxent River, MD. Continued procurement and integration for NEWEG systems at the Electronics Combat simulation and Evaluation Laboratory (ECSEL), Pt Mugu, CA and the Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF), Edwards AFB, CA. for the Next Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator (NEWEG) Build B project that provides advanced electronic warfare simulation/stimulation capabilities for testing future Electronic Attack and Electronic Support Measures systems at multiple DoD test facilities and reprogramming laboratories. - Continued work on projects for the Non-Internet Protocol Cyber Test Tools. A portfolio of projects to provide cyber test tools required to evaluate cyber security of weapon systems components, data links, communications buses and other critical items. - Worked requirements for the Open-Air Multi-Spectral Data Collection (OAMSDC) which provides enhanced IR missile signature open air data collections processes; provides conduits for playback of observed IR missile shots to an open air missile plume simulator; provide multi-mode (RF + IR) threat missile presentations to systems under test; and a Joint Multispectral Target Board (JMTB). - Began requirements development for the Ordnance Evaluation Range, Detonation Chamber which provides the ability of measuring hypersonic components to survive varying temperatures, vibrations, and acoustic stresses. - Completed risk reduction under the Enhanced Solutions Process (ESP) Over Water Scoring System that provides persistent, relocatable range capability for open-ocean, high precision weapon scoring and range surveillance based on a “Waveglider” platform and processing software prototyped by the 96th Test Support Squadron, Eglin AFB. - Completed the Ka-Band radar upgrade and hardware PDR for the Advanced Dynamic Aircraft Measurement System (ADAMS-3) system at the Atlantic Test Range for the Radar Cross Section Range Relevance (RCSRR) project comprised of 11 subprojects that upgrade radar cross section (RCS) capabilities at both the National Radar Cross Section (RCS) Test Facility (NRTF), Holloman AFB, NM, and the Atlantic Test Range (ATR), NAS Patuxent River, MD to improve infrastructure to ensure test measurement capabilities and throughput capacities at both ranges are sufficient to measure and evaluate advanced low observable technologies. At the NRTF completed the new Command and Control system, calibration pit, new data signal processing software, new HF antenna, refurbished target support pylon. Initiated the new fiber optic network perimeter security subprojects at the NRTF. - Completed integration of 16 RSE and 5 classified threat devices at the Nevada Test and Training Range (NTTR), NV and Navy Land and Sea Ranges at China Lake and NAS Pt Magu, Supported F-35 IOT&E at NTTR, NV for the Radar Signal Emulators (RSE) project that provides open-loop, transmit-only simulators representative of threat radar systems operating in the C and S radio frequency (RF) bands. - Completed preliminary design of the air-to-air and advanced signal blocks. Radar Air-to-Ground Environment (RAGE) project provides an installed test facility, ground test capability for testing advanced aircraft radars in high-density air-to-air environments. The air-to-ground block is awaiting technology maturation as an entrance criterion. - Initiated funding for the RF and IR threat model development process in cooperation with the Test and Evaluation Threat Resource Activity (TETRA), for the Radio Frequency and Infrared Modeling and Simulation project develops at least 20 classified Intelligence Production Center-certified threat system models for use in DoD test and evaluation simulators. - Completed three efforts: Range Reference Atmosphere Update, Thresholds and Rationale in Defense of UAS Risk Criteria and IEEE-1588 Precision Time Protocol update for the Range Commander’s Council Technical Group projects. The RCC Technical Groups manage inter-range policies and procedures. - Initiated the Reconfigurable RF Target Simulator (RRFTS) project to upgrade an Eglin AFB facility to test prototype sensors in a simulated hypersonic target and scene environment. - Supported the development of the White House “Developing a Sustainable Spectrum Strategy for America’s Future” memorandum, reviewed proposed legislation (e.g. H.R. 471, Wireless Investment Now in 5G Act and S.2223, Advancing Innovation and Reinvigorating Widespread Access to Viable Electromagnetic Spectrum (AIRWAVES) Act), Evaluated 10 papers for the International Consortium for Telemetry Spectrum for the Spectrum Stewardship project that ensures DoD T&E spectrum concerns are addressed in domestic and international forums establishing policies related to issues such as spectrum management, frequency allocations, and spectrum interference that impact DoD test and evaluation ranges. - Completed Phase I and Phase II analysis of hypersonic platform flight safety parameters, flight path geographical safety data and individual DoD and Allied range data for the Study of Open Air Ranges for Hypersonic Test (SOAR-H) to determine an optimum range of solutions for the Open Air Range flight testing of hypersonic systems. - Demonstrated semi-autonomous control of HSMST, one operator controlling 8 HSMST, and ability of HSMST to dynamically change SWARM maneuver formations. Supported operational testing against representative surface swarming threats at the Pacific Missile Range Hawaii. Completed prototype demonstrations UAS weapons impact scoring subproject capabilities and Eglin AFB, FL for the SWARM project that upgrades the Navy’s existing High-Speed Maneuverable Surface Target (HSMST) with semi-autonomous control and develops an overhead scoring capabilities for testing US Navy ship defense systems and US aircraft weapons against representative surface swarming threats. - Completed requirements development, project planning and initiated development for the Technology Development Acquisition Program Next Generation (TDAP NGEN) project that implements a new set of IT tools to support the T&E Board of Directors Reliance Process in order to receive, review and prioritize Service test and evaluation gaps and development proposals. - Completed a study of current adversarial, non-adversarial, and commercial capabilities utilizing Quantum Technologies. Initiated development of a proof of concept prototype system for Quantum Encryption Key Distribution (QKD) for the Threat Management Office Integrated Threat Force, Redstone Arsenal, MD. for the Threat Center of Excellence project that provides research, evaluate new technologies and methodologies to counter critical conventional threats posed by traditional and non-traditional adversaries focused initially on the Cyber, EW, and small UAS threats. - Continued development of the Transient Thermal Analysis Software (TTAS) project that provides improved capabilities for predicting aerothermal and ablation response to high speed, high temperature flow in flight test environments. - Continued development of the program for the Tunnel 9 High Mach Number project that develops a Mach 18 test capability at the AEDC White Oak, MD facility to support aero/aero-thermodynamic modeling and simulation supporting intermediate range and strategic boost glide vehicle and maneuvering system concepts. - Continued the UAV Range (UAV Range) project development in coordination with associated T&E/S&T Program efforts for the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Range project to provide Global Hawk UAVs equipped with telemetry, Light Detection and Ranging System (LIDAR) and optical tracking for inflight data collection of hypersonic systems. - Worked program requirements for the X-Ray Simulators for Test and Evaluation of Nuclear Survivability (XSTENS) project to replace or upgrade three X-ray simulators that measure the susceptibility of missile components to damage from high dose warm and cold x-rays experienced in space. Resource Enhancement Projects: - Awarded contract and completed a System Requirements Review (SRR), and Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Advanced Communication Threat Testing Suites (ACTTS) Uplink project develops EW threat representative uplink jamming system to support test and evaluation of end-to-end satellite system responsiveness to threat systems operating in applicable bands. ACTTS-U will be the only upper band operationally relevant Super High Frequency (SHF) electronic attack capability available with Extremely High Frequency (EHF) low Probability of Intercept/Low Probability of Detection (LPI/LPD). - Completed system integration Risk Reduction III (RR3) testing on the Airborne Early Warning Interoperability Simulator (AEIS) project develops the hardware and software necessary to generate a properly spaced, dense target and Electronic Counter Measure (ECM) environment for injection-mode Installed Systems Test Facility (ISTF) testing. - Completed System Requirements Reviews (SRR) for the Air Warfare Battle Shaping (AWBS) develops a capability connecting ranges/assets and creates a Threat Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) coupled with the Live/Virtual/Constructive (LVS) Laboratory Electronic Attack (EA) effect. - Continued development, received all parts and assembled prototype on the Common Operational Test Vehicle and Engagement Real-Time Test Instrumentation (COVERT-I) will improve the data collection footprint in Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles by reducing from three unique data collectors to one modular, scalable data collector with increased storage capacity. - Completed Phase I feasibility study for the Dynamic DIADS Control of CEESIM (D2C2) develops a capability to have DIADS drive CEESIM radar engagements in real time vs static, script-based engagements. Adds Pilot-in-the-Loop dynamics to EW testing. - Completed Phase I, developed and accomplished in-water testing of the High Speed Quiet Propulsion System (HSQPS) for the General Threat Torpedo (GTT) that develops a threat torpedo surrogate with upgradable interchangeable segments, as an upgrade replacement for the current threat surrogate torpedo. -Completed development, finalized integration, tested system, and delivered to Electronic Combat Range (ECR) to support the EA-18G Growler Operational Test (OT) events for the Integrated Digital Acquisition Radar Environment - Upgrade (IDARE-U) capability that upgraded two NAWCWD Electronic Combat Range OEM Radars’ analog output with digital upgrade for downstream digital messaging. - Continued development of the track mount and subassemblies and completed the Software Design Review of the background suppression software capability of the Joint Standard Instrumentation Suite (JSIS) Phase 2 capability that measures and collects missile attitude (6DOF) as well as signature, TSPI, and related data for a larger portion of the threat MANPADS trajectory at the required accuracies within a single firing to support evaluation of the missile/hostile fire warning systems such as the Advance Threat Warning (ATW). - Initiated and completed the System Requirement Review (SRR), Project Management Plan (PMP) and a prototype of the Post Intercept Debris Simulation (PIDS) capability will enhance Navy Probability of Raid Annihilation simulator federation with realistic post-missile intercept debris. - Completed the emitter and radome performance specifications and awarded the contract for Phase 2 for the Pulsed Doppler Emitter Capability Payload for Aerial Targets (PDEC-163) develops kinematic threat representations and threat representative emissions to provide the DDG-1000 OT SUT with the ability to collect data necessary for COTF to accredit the DDG-1000’s fire control loop weapons system response to threat targets. - Initiated project and has awarded the Army Missile Plume Simulator (MPS) contract, completed a Critical Design Review (CDR), and assembled the first modulator cell of the Multi-Spectral Sea and Land Target Simulator (MSALTS) Emitter Upgrade that improves MSALTS and Joint Mobile Infrared Countermeasure Test System (JMITS) emitter bandwidth in order to keep up with emerging System Under Test (SUT). - Completed the build, delivery, and launch of the 10x10x10cm free flying CubeSat with 2 and 4cm targets for the Space Fence Radar operational testing for the Space Fence Evaluation of Radar Effectiveness (SFERES) which developed a 3-axis stabilized CubeSat that released two spheres into orbit in order to support accurate evaluation of the Space Fence radar. - Completed Phase 1 of the ULB engineering design effort for a production ULB Emitter Generation Rack for the Ultra Low-band Time Difference Of Arrival (UT) which develops a capability for a time difference of arrival (TDOA) multi-aircraft test configuration to support three aircraft under test in both the Air Combat Environment Test and the Evaluation Facility (ACETEF) and Electronic Combat Simulation and Evaluation Lab (ECSEL). - Began requirements development for the Battlefield Awareness Testbed (BAT) which intends to develop a mobile communications laboratory intended to replicate the voice, data, and video environments of tomorrow’s battlefield, while also providing reach-back to legacy systems. - Developed requirements for a Program Management Plan for the Maritime Survivability Library (MSL) which plans to develop a weaponeering tool for timely planning and execution of surface warfare strike missions. The T&E community requires a tool to accurately evaluate the lethality of emerging anti-ship weapons for use in acquisition decisions. - Developed requirements for a Program Management Plan for the Non-IP Cybersecurity Suite (NICS) that proposes to develop a hardware and software framework to automatically connect to non-IP interfaces, decode non-IP communications protocols, and launch basic non-IP cyberattacks through a Graphical User Interface and a software Application Programming Interface to dramatically accelerates and expands non-IP cybersecurity testing. - Developed requirements for a Program Management Plan for the Tactical Aerospace Laser Optical Simulator – High Altitude (TALOS HIGH) which intends to develop a dual laser threat simulation capability within a 2-story cryo-vacuum chamber to evaluate space-based ISR sensors against surrogate ground- and air-based laser threats within a simulated space environment. - Developed requirements for a Program Management Plan for the Towed Array Threat Emulator (TATE) that proposes to develop a modular towed array to support T&E needs. The array will be designed to support receive and transmit nodes defined for the System Under Test (SUT). Each transmit and receive node will deliver raw data to the array tow vehicle for processing and generation of an acoustic or tactical response.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2021
- Source ID
- 0fa585abc4c3be30e8cf2eee35c27d22