Enabling - Test
Abstract
The Enabling Test project includes the System Engineering & Integration (SE&I) that drives Missile Defense System (MDS) test planning, execution, and post-test analysis and assessment, and the Modeling & Simulation (M&S) tools and framework required to prepare for and execute ground and flight tests. SE&I allocates test requirements to individual test events, designs test architectures, defines target requirements, and generates ground and flight test scenarios to collect data essential for model validation and system verification. SE&I works with the Service Operational Test Agencies (OTA) to incorporate operational test requirements into MDS events to ensure the incremental capability being transferred to the Warfighter will be operationally effective, suitable, and survivable. The resulting data ensures MDS requirements are being met by the system under test and confirms proper BMD System operation. It also helps to anchor system and element M&S for use in simulations to characterize System performance across the battle space, including areas where no live-fire-testing is performed. Engineering ground test (GT) responsibilities include System performance sensitivity analysis; scenario design and optimization; analysis to mitigate test data collection risks; test architecture certification analysis; and test result analysis. Flight test (FT) responsibilities include pre-mission scenario analysis to identify and mitigate test execution risk in advance; range safety analysis; mission analysis during test execution; extensive post-mission analysis; and event analysis reporting products. These efforts inform senior leaders' decisions on MDS development and evolution and underpin the capability declarations that deliver new capabilities to the Warfighter. Pre-mission predictions use the test framework and Hardware in the Loop (HWIL) and digital models of the test configuration to exercise system interfaces, calculate expected System performance, and gauge readiness for test execution. Post-mission, MDA uses test results to anchor System and element M&S and provide confidence in their ability to correctly predict System behavior and performance. Reliability, Availability and Maintainability data collected through MDS test events increases confidence in System performance over the entire lifecycle. SE&I documents any abnormal System behavior observed during tests and alerts MDA to issues with test article reliability. SE&I leads test failure review boards, identifies data collection shortfalls, and reallocates objectives to future test events as needed until all required model validation data is collected. The Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System provides a framework to investigate test failures and anomalies and identify solutions that will ultimately improve System performance and reliability. MDA's M&S systems and products provide the Agency, the Warfighter, and the OTA with the capability to evaluate individual System components and the overall system-of-systems. MDA validates and accredits System-level models and simulations to support accurate and comprehensive assessments. M&S System and product testing follows the test program outlined in MDA's IMTP and serves as a necessary precursor to conducting System-level testing. Resources for the planning, design, execution and management of this testing are provided in accordance with the most current version of the IMTP.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- MT23_0603890C_4_0400_PB_2022
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