Enabling - Test
Abstract
System Engineering and Integration (SE&I) Major Program Goals for the IMTP: -Verify and Assess through testing and Ballistic Missile Defense System performance and capabilities -Develop Ballistic Missile Defense System Performance Assessment parameters -Identify the Critical Engagement Conditions and data required to develop the test campaigns that will demonstrate regional defense performance, and verify and assess the capability of each Phased Adaptive Approach -Define the test objectives necessary to anchor Ballistic Missile Defense System-level models and simulations, enable independent verification and validation, and identify System issues occurring in ground and flight tests -Identify Ballistic Missile Defense System capabilities and limitations -Develop, manage and use BMDS level Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to verify BMDS performance in system operational regions outside the live fire testing regions. During test integration, verification, and model validation, engineering studies and analyses enable the allocation of test requirements to individual test events, design of test architectures, definition of target requirements, and generation of appropriate scenarios for ground and flight tests, in order to collect the required model validation data. Along with the support of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E), System Engineering and Integration works with the Services` Operational Test Agencies (OTA) to incorporate operational test requirements under development to ensure the incremental capability being transferred to the Warfighter will be operationally effective, suitable, and survivable. System Engineering and Integration participates in test failure review boards, identifies shortfalls in data collection, and reallocates objectives to future test events until all identified model validation data is collected. Suitability data is collected through the Joint Reliability and Maintainability Engineering Team (JRMET) and quarterly data scoring boards with the Elements, to Warfighter commanders and increases the confidence levels in the predicted performance of the Ballistic Missile Defense System. BMDS Test Incident Reports document abnormal system behavior that occurs during System-level tests and alert MDA to issues with test article reliability. The Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS) provides a framework to investigate System test failures and identify solutions that will ultimately improve BMDS reliability. BMDS Level Testing: In conjunction with the Director for Test, the Director for Engineering supplies test objectives that define the basic test development and ensure BMDS requirements are being met by the BMD System under test. Systems Engineering plays a key role in Ballistic Missile Defense test design and development through definition and tracking of the Critical Engagement Conditions (CECs) and Empirical Measurement Events (EMEs), as documented in the Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP). The CECs and EMEs ensure that the design of the BMDS test includes data collection to show proper system operation; they also provide validation, verification, and assessment data for the digital models and simulations used to predict Ballistic Missile Defense System performance. These models and simulations, along with the rigorous test and verification process, will be used to demonstrate BMDS performance in areas where no live-fire-testing is performed and provide direct support to the fielding decisions and BMDS deployed operations. System Pre- and Post-Flight Reconstruction: System Engineering and Integration (SE&I) supports System Pre-Flight predictions for system level flight tests using the test framework set up with the Ballistic Missile Defense System configuration for a particular flight test. This provides confidence in Flight Test execution by predicting BMDS performance and exercising element interfaces. This work also ensures the flight test will collect the required data (including CECs and EMEs) and the data management plan will support System Post-Flight Reconstruction (SPFR) objectives. System Post-Flight Reconstruction uses a hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) and/or a Digital Modeling and Simulation Environment to replicate the day of flight for the Ballistic Missile Defense System configuration, including the actual environmental conditions and target dynamics observed in the test. The results of this process increase confidence in the models and simulations by anchoring the results to the real world event, with emphasis on the Critical Engagement Conditions and Empirical Measurement Events. System Post-Flight Reconstruction is used for validation (anchoring) of the BMDS models and simulations. Modeling & Simulation (M&S) Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP) Mission Description: Testing: The distinct capabilities of the MDA`s M&S systems and products are ingrained throughout the MDA Elements and provide the Warfighter and Operational Test Agency (OTA) with an evaluation capability for individual components as well as overall M&S system-of-systems. MDA works to validate and accredits system-level models and simulations by anchoring them to real-world events to support accurate and comprehensive assessments of the BMDS. Future M&S development activities will focus on the model and simulation frameworks, BMDS Element models, as well as threat, phenomenology, lethality, communications, and environmental modeling. The success of the missile defense program is enabled by quality M&S systems and products that help prove BMDS technologies work. In particular, MDA M&S System and Product testing is based on an integrated, comprehensive, and phased test program as outlined in MDA`s Integrated Master Test Plan (IMTP). Within the construct of the IMTP, MDA Element unique M&S systems, subsystems, and components are tested as part of their respective development and integration, a necessary precursor to conducting BMD System-level M&S testing (e.g., integrated ground test, performance/technical assessment venues). Resources for the planning, design, execution and management of this testing are provided in accordance with the BMDS Test Policy, as listed in the most current version of the IMTP.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- MT23_0603890C_4_0400_PB_2013
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