Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program
Abstract
Jim Projects: - Awarded the contract for system development and completed preliminary design for the Advanced Range Tracking and Imaging System project to provide an integrated next generation suite of optical tracking mounts needed to increase performance, reduce costs, and effectively deliver secure reliable optical throughput. - Continued procurement and initiated sustainment for the Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System project to develop a common range instrumentation system to address next generation range data requirements. - Completed the B-2 Defense Management System project to upgrade test capabilities at the Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF) to support B-2 testing in a modern radio frequency (RF) signal threat environment. - Completed Block 1 Initial Operational Capability for the Multi-Level Secure Joint/Coalition Network Environment (MLS-JCNE) project to develop a standardized, DoD multi-level secure and cross-domain data management T&E network environment. Continued system development for Block 2 to develop a standardized, multi-level secure voice, text chat, file transfer, and multi-level work station for cross-domain data management in a T&E network environment. - Completed Block 1 (Initial Operational Capability) and Block 2 (Full Operational Capability) for the Synthetic Battlefield Emitter Systems and project to provide a controlled, high-density open air environment for testing C4ISR systems. - Completed development and fielded the Vertical Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) System at both NAS Patuxent River, MD, and White Sand Missile Range, NM; and a High Power Microwave (HPM) Test Sources project to provide vertical high-altitude EMP and HPM external electromagnetic environments for testing in accordance with Military Standards. - Completed system design for Increment 1 and Initial Operational Capability for the Network Centric Weapon (NCW) T&E Environment project to provide an enhanced capability to test and evaluate an NCW in a distributed end-to-end simulation environment. Continued system design and development for Increment 2. - Completed system design and an Early Operational Capability Demonstration of the Cyber Test Analysis and Simulation Environment project and continued development to enhance current Information Assurance / Cyber testing and analysis capabilities and modeling and simulations tools for testing against increasingly robust Cyber threats. - Completed system development and initiated production for the Radar Signal Emulators to provide open-loop, transmit-only systems that will accurately emit waveforms of threat radar systems operating in the C and S radio frequency (RF) bands. Delivered 8 of 16 Radar Signal Emulators at the Nellis AFB Test and Training Range, NV and initiated site acceptance testing. Continued production of the remaining 9 Radar Signal Emulators. - Completed integration of three threat command posts at the Electronic Combat Range, China Lake, CA and continued system development for remaining deliverables for the Integrated Air Defense System (IADS) Enhancements project that will add comprehensive threat-representative IADS capabilities based on the development and integration of several high-priority, threat-representative Command Post (CP) models to open-air test ranges, test laboratories and modeling and simulation (M&S) facilities. - Completed source selection and contract award and initiated preliminary design for the Commercial Derivative Aircraft Based Instrumentation Telemetry System project to provide expanded capability and capacity telemetry support for aircraft and missile defense testing in inter-range and broad ocean area test scenarios. - Completed requirements development and initiated concept development and preliminary design for 7 projects improving hypersonic ground test capabilities to address critical shortfalls in developmental and operational testing of cruise missile and boost glide vehicles. * The Hypersonic Test Capability Improvement Clean Air/Variable Mach Capability to provide clean air, variable Mach test capability for hypersonic system prototypes from Mach 4 to Mach 7.5. * The Tunnel 9 High Mach Number project that develops a Mach 18 test capability at the AEDC White Oak, MD. * The High Altitude LIDAR Atmospheric Sensing System that provides DOD launch and flight test ranges with improved ability to measure atmospheric conditions to reduce flight test evaluation uncertainty and improve launch and recovery operations. * Holloman AFB High Speed Test Track Weather Effects System that provides a full scale rain erosion capability in order to validate vehicle structural design and qualify hypersonic weapon systems for flight in an open air facility. * AEDC G-Range Weather Effects that provides a small scale dust, rain, and snow erosion capability in order to validate vehicle structural design and qualify hypersonic weapon systems for flight. * M&S for Weather Effects on Hypersonic Systems that provides a database of realistic and relevant weather conditions as a basis for ground test requirements, and that develops advanced material response models validated with improved ground test data to predict weather erosion in flight. * Transient Thermal Analysis Software Transition tool set provides dramatically improved capabilities for predicting aerothermal and ablation response to high speed, high temperature flow in ground and flight test environments. - Completed requirements development and planning, and contract award and initiated preliminary design for the Advanced Weapons Effects Test Capability project to develop a capability to more accurately measure fragment characteristics of explosive weapons and more accurately estimate collateral damage distances. - Completed concept development and preliminary design, and initiated system development for the Mid-Pressure Arc Heater project to expand the H2 Hypersonic Test Facility at Arnold Engineering Development Complex, TN to provide higher enthalpy at the mid-pressure altitudes to enable ground materials testing of components of hypersonic systems. - Completed requirements development for the Pulsed Neutron Environment project to provide a Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) facility and transitioned this project to the Fast Burst Reactor Upgrade project that will begin during FY2018. - Completed critical design and continued system development for the Advanced Dynamic Transmitter Array (ADTRA) project to develop a complex, dynamic radio frequency (RF) threat environment that will accurately represent signal characteristics, increase signal densities while reducing test system set up and calibration times at the Benefield Anechoic Facility (BAF). - Completed critical design and continued system development of the Closed Loop PESA Simulator 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. - Completed preliminary design and initiated system development for the Radar Cross Section Range Relevance Project to upgrade radar cross section measurement capabilities to measure and evaluate advanced low observable technologies at the Atlantic Test Range, Patuxent River NAS, MD and the National RCS Test Facility, Holloman AFB, NM. - Completed preliminary design and initiated system development for the Swarm Autonomy and Scoring project to upgrade existing High Speed Maneuverable Surface Targets (HSMST) with semi-autonomous control and UAS overhead scoring capabilities for testing against representative surface swarming threats. Deferred concept development and preliminary design of the Real Time Casualty Assessment capability pending completion of a feasibility assessment. - Continued system development of the Integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry (iNET)Project Block I capability to develop a network-enhanced aeronautical telemetry capability for T&E ranges and facilities. - Continued system development for the Next Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator (NEWEG) Build B project to provide electronic warfare simulation capabilities for testing future Electronic Attack and Electronic Support Measures systems. - Continued Integrated Technical Evaluation and Analysis of Multiple Sources (ITEAMS) activities to provide detailed analysis and validation of threat system designs and operational techniques. - Continued system development for Full Operational Capability for the Joint Distributed Infrared Countermeasures (IRCM) Ground Test System project to provide end-to-end ground testing of IRCM systems. - Continued the Joint Strike Fighter Knowledge Management (KM) project to establish a next-generation KM capability that utilizes the latest in virtualization technologies, methodologies, and best practices for efficient and effective use of T&E data. Initiated development of small form factor instrumentation prototypes for data collection and data analytics systems to support F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation. - Initiated risk reduction activities under the Enhanced Solutions Process for potential FY18 multi-Service T&E developments, as recommended by Service Test and Evaluation Executives. - Monitored early maturation under the Test and Evaluation/Science and Technology Program for a prototype capability to develop a Dense Plasma Focus (DPF) system to meet short pulse fusion neutron test requirements necessary for both weapons certification and testing new circuit designs for nuclear weapons effects testing that will transition to CTEIP development in FY2018. - Continued threat system simulator, modeling and simulation development efforts to improve integration; reduce potential duplication and ensure that accurate, cost-effective representations of threat systems are available to support testing. Resource Enhancement Project: - Completed the Advanced Mine Simulation System (AMISS) Upgrade, which provides the existing AMISS asset with five new mine-triggering emulations, as well as sensor and improved compartmentalization enhancements. - Completed the C2 and Urban Background Environment Simulator (CUBES) to incorporate modern urban communication background signals and selected closed-loop communications for Installed System Test Facility communications jamming purposes. - Completed the Digital Integrated Air Defense System (DIADS) Sensor Reactivity Upgrade (SRU) to upgrade DIADS radars with enhanced ECM response features in support of F-35 and F-22 operational testing. - Completed development of Torpedo Operational Testing Using Modeling and Simulation (TOTUMS) to enhance torpedo OT&E by upgrading an HITL simulator and environment simulator for high-fidelity, OT-ready realism. - Completed Tactical Datalink (TDL) and Full Motion Video (FMV) Accuracy Assessment Tool (T-FAAT) to interface commercial off-the-shelf tool suites to create a net-enabled weapon situational awareness during live testing. - Continued development of Airborne Early Warning Interoperability Simulator (AEIS) to develop the hardware and software necessary to generate a properly spaced, dense target and ECM environment for injection-mode Installed Systems Test Facility testing of the E-2D Hawkeye mission system. - Continued development of Boosted Zombie Target (BZT) to develop multi-stage, economical targets for PAC-3 by integrating a GFE booster onto a blue "Zombie" maneuvering target. - Continued development of Joint Standard Instrumentation Suite (JSIS) Phase 1 to measure and collect signature, TSPI, and related data from key flight trajectory segments of threat missile and hostile fire munitions (e.g., small arms and RPG) firings to support evaluation of the missile/hostile fire warning systems such as the Advance Threat Warning (ATW) system. - Continued development of the Medium Range Target Engagement Radar (MR-TER) Radar System Emulator (RSE) to develop and integrate TER waveform replication capability into C-Band RSEs. - Continued development of Cognitive Electronic Warfare (Cognitive EW) Flight Test to evaluate an advanced EW system against emerging threat representations. - Continued development of Submarine Launched Modular 3-inch Device (SLAM-3D), which provides a Cluster Duncan countermeasure emulator that will help resolve the Anti-Submarine Warfare COI for the Mk 54 Mod 1 Torpedo. - Continued development of General Threat Torpedo (GTT) to develop a threat torpedo surrogate with upgradable interchangeable segments as an upgrade replacement for the current threat surrogate torpedo. - Initiated development of Advanced Communication Threat Testing Suites (ACTTS) Uplink Capability to develop an electronic warfare (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. - Initiated development of additional enhancements to Air Warfare Battle Shaping (AWBS) investments to improve air-to-air range infrastructure for NAWC-WD. - Initiated development of Common Operational Test Vehicle and Engagement Real-Time Test Instrumentation (COVERT-I) to reduce 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. - Initiated development of Integrated Digital Acquisition Radar Environment. - Upgraded (IDARE-U) to upgrade two NAWCWD Electronic Combat Range OEM Radars’ analog output with digital upgrade for downstream digital messaging. - Initiated development of Joint Standard Instrumentation Suite (JSIS) Phase 2 to measure and collect 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) system. -Initiated development of the Pulsed Doppler Emitter Capability Payload for Aerial Targets (PDEC-163) to develop 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 development of Space Fence Evaluation of Radar Effectiveness (SFERES) to fabricate a 3-axis stabilized CubeSat which will launch two spheres to support accurate evaluation of the Space Fence radar.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- 82a00aab7e429406ef48e26a62e4d85d