Electronic Warfare Test. Interim Report Phase 3
Abstract
The Joint Advanced Distributed Simulation (JADS) Joint Test and Evaluation (JT&E) was chartered by the Deputy Director, Test, Systems Engineering and Evaluation (Test and Evaluation), Office of the 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 JADS Joint Test Force (JTF) is Air Force led with Army and Navy participation. The JADS JT&E program is scheduled to end in March 2000. The JADS JTF investigated ADS applications in three slices of the test and evaluation (T&E) spectrum: ADS support of air-to-air missile testing; ADS support for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR) testing; and the Electronic Warfare (EW) Test which explored ADS support for EW testing. The tasking to conduct an ADS-based EW test called for an airborne self-protection jammer (SPJ) as the system under test (SUT). The emphasis of the EW Test was on the performance of the ADS components and their contribution or impact to testing rather than on the performance of the SPJ pod itself. Measures of performance (MOPs) for the SPJ were identified as measures that would most likely be affected by distributed testing. Statistical comparison of the MOPs became the methodology for evaluating ADS. JADS evaluated distributed test control and analysis, network performance, relationships between data latencies, and ADS-induced data anomalies. Time, cost, and complexity, as well as validity and credibility of the data, were part of the evaluation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA377999
Entities
People
- Darrell L. Wright
- Roman M. Nation