Major Operational Test Instrumentation
Abstract
This program funds the development, acquisition, and integration of major operational test instrumentation for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command's (ATEC) Operational Test Command and supporting test activities at test and training ranges. Requirements for instrumentation are identified through a long range survey of project managers, Research Development and Engineering Centers (RDECs), and Battle Laboratories developing future weapon systems and the test programs that support these systems. Projects are designated as a major test program based on their visibility, assessed relative technical risk (medium-high), schedule risk, cost (greater than $1.5 Million per year or $7.5 Million for the total project) and applicability to other mission areas or services. These projects are technically demanding, state-of-the-art, unique instrumentation assets or suites to meet the technology shortfalls, and generally result from development programs managed by a professional project management team. Director Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) annual report to Congress identified shortfalls in the Army’s abilities to create realistic operational environments. The Integrated Live-Virtual-Constructive (LVC) Test Environment project will address multiple shortfalls identified by DOT&E. ILTE will deliver a system of systems to provide ar Real-Time Casualty Assessment and instrumentation suite (RTCA) that delivers a high fidelity, realistic, real-time capability to measure hardware and personnel performance in modern combat environments. ILTE will enable testing under tactical conditions for small and large-scale operations while integrating network operations and effects in support of the Army Equipment Modernization Plan. ILTE also allows the U.S. Army to test all Current-to-Future, weapon systems in a realistic operational environment. ILTE will transition Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDTE) developed performance enhancements and technology upgrades to the operational test command, control, and communications, communications network, weapons system interfaces, vehicle and dismounted-troop kits and peripherals, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), encryption components, and integrates operational realistic digital battlefield data collection and analysis tools. These tools will collect, store and analyze data from the digital battlefield. Improvements will enable the ILTE system of systems to measure and record accrued damage, levels of exposure, effects of countermeasures, evasive action, and instrument threat vehicles. This capability is required by the operational test community to integrate digital battlefield data collection and analysis tools into the Network Integration Evaluation (NIE), M1, M2, Stryker, and Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV), AH-64E, Gray Eagle and other operational tests.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- 986_0604759A_6_2040_PB_2017