Delivering Research Results to the DTRA CMR R&D Testbed
Abstract
The purpose of the Research and Development Testbed (R&D Testbed) at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's (DTRA) Center for Monitoring Research (CMR) is to improve nuclear explosion monitoring capability by supporting the R&D community with a wide range of activities and resources and providing environments for testing and evaluating promising research results at a wide range of scales. For certain deliverables, DTRA directs its sponsored researchers to deliver their research results to the R&D Testbed. Results delivered to the R&D Testbed are permanently archived in a manner that facilitates access by other researchers. In addition, the R&D Testbed provides a facility to evaluate such research results and, if desired, integrate them into other software systems and subsystems. For example deliverables are both integrated into software for delivery to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization's International Data Centre and also transitioned to the US Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC) at Patrick Air Force Base in Florida for routine worldwide nuclear explosion test monitoring. The purpose of this paper is to formally document the established procedures of the DTRA CMR R&D Testbed. A key component for success of the R&D Testbed is the delivery, test, and acceptance of results from the R&D community. In general, the R&D Testbed expects four types of deliveries: technical reports, data to receive and store, software components to evaluate and possibly integrate, and parametric results (such as Source Specific Station Corrections) to evaluate and integrate.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADA526838
Entities
People
- David H. Salzberg
- Robert G. North
- Robert L. Woodward
Organizations
- Leidos