Air-to-Air Missile Testing Using Advanced Distributed Simulation

Abstract

The Joint Advanced Distributed Simulation Joint Test and Evaluation (JADS JT&E) was chartered by the Deputy Director, Test, Systems Engineering and Evaluation (Test and Evaluation), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) in October 1994 to investigate the utility of Advanced Distributed Simulation (ADS) technologies for support of Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E) and Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E). The program is Air Force led, with Army and Navy participation, and is nominally scheduled for five years. The JADS JT&E is tasked in three areas: Investigate the present utility of ADS for T&E; Identify the critical constraints, concerns, and methodologies when using ADS for T&E; Identify the requirements that must be introduced into ADS systems if they are to support a more complete T&E capability in the future. The JADS JT&E is executing its charter by evaluating the application of ADS to the T&E of representative military systems. The types of systems selected represent three slices of the T&E spectrum: a System Integration Test (SIT) which explores ADS support of air-to-air missile testing, an End-To-End (ETE) test which explores ADS support for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence (C41) testing, and an Electronic Warfare (EW) test which explores ADS support for EW testing. The JTF will broaden the conclusions developed in the three dedicated test areas by leveraging off of ADS activities sponsored and conducted by other agencies. The SIT consists of two phases. The first phase, the Linked Simulators Phase (LSP), has been completed and employed an all-simulator architecture for testing an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. The second phase is now underway and links live shooter and target aircraft to an AIM-i 20 AMRAAM hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) simulation at Eglin AFB.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA359380

Entities

People

  • Larry Mckee

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Data Transmission
  • Joint Test And Evaluation
  • Laboratory Tests
  • Networks
  • Pilots
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Software Development
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Methods
  • Verification
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Missile Defense Systems.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Microelectronics