Major Range Test Facility Base Operations
Abstract
For FY2024 and out years, T-30 MRTFB Test and Evaluation funding and mission are realigned to T-40 Major Range Test Facility Base Operations. This exhibit includes the combined T-30 and T-40 mission descriptions. The DISA, through JITC, manages the Department’s Joint Interoperability TE&C process structured to provide meaningful and independent test results. The TE&C process increases stakeholder confidence that capabilities fielded to the warfighter meet mission needs. The T&E activities target evaluation strategies in the design, development, operational, integration and/or sustainment aspects of every program supported. JITC’s T&E efforts span a variety of test categories supporting Department-wide enterprise solutions. JITC’s T&E efforts also support Services, Agencies, and mission partners developmental, operational, cyber and interoperability testing, evaluation, and certification efforts. These efforts focus on T&E for IT to include the Digital Modernization Strategy (DMS), Cyber, Cloud services, and Mobility. Integrated application of JITC’s T&E services enables the Joint Force to gain and maintain information superiority in support of the National Defense Strategy (NDS). As the DoD Joint Interoperability Certification Authority, JITC annually: •Ensures interoperability test, evaluation, and certification standard practices and procedures are in accordance with DoD policy. •Evaluates DoD’s IT/NSS for joint interoperability and issues Joint interoperability certifications and assessments. •Manages the scheduling and executes interoperability test events. These events evaluate, certify, and re-certify Service/Agency systems. •Reviews Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System documents, interoperability support plans, and interoperability policy waivers on behalf of the DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) and the Joint Staff. These reviews ensure compliance with DoD interoperability testing policy and requirements. •Serves as executive agent to DoD’s Interoperability Steering Group, in support of the DoD CIO, and uses forum to coordinate policy, adjudicate issues, and to process Interim Certificates to Operate. JITC made significant strides in updating test and evaluation methodology to support new acquisition pathways resulting in increased integrated testing, conducting smaller events, and informing decision makers more often. This enables releasing capabilities to the warfighter more efficiently. On 4 OCT 2022, the Operational Test Agency (OTAs) for the military services and JITC jointly released an “Operational Test Agencies Six Core Test Principles” to encourage early engagement, increased agility, and flexibility to support continuous evaluations for programs and improved support for agile acquisition. As the only non-Service OTA within DoD, JITC annually: •Conducts operational testing of IT/NSS under realistic conditions to determine the operational effectiveness, suitability, interoperability, and cyber survivability. Additionally, JITC independently assesses the operational impact of system issues on mission accomplishment. •Serves as the OTA for DISA-managed programs, and upon request, serves as the OTA for other Agencies such as the Defense Logistics Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Health Agency, Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and the National Security Agency. In direct support of the Warfighter, JITC participates in Joint, Coalition, and Allied operations in exercises designed to evaluate Joint, Coalition and Allied capabilities in, or planned to deploy to theater, by: •Providing on-demand rapid response contingency support to Regional Combatant Commands (COCOMs) and conducting assessments during interoperability exercises. •Maintaining a 24x7 Warfighter Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C4I) Interoperability Hotline that connects warfighters to subject matter experts to resolve IT interoperability challenges. •Establishing the framework for annual independent evaluations to determine the status of interoperability through the DoD Interoperability Communications Exercise (DICE). The DICE emulates a distributed Joint Task Force - which includes first responder, local, and federal communications networks - providing realism and operational significance during assessments and evaluations of data integrity, interfacing, and responsiveness coupled with efficient configuration tactics, techniques, and procedures. JITC provides strategy development and investments to maintain, operate, and improve joint interoperability certification, operational, and warfighter T&E services by: •Integrating evolving processes and technologies that leverage efficiencies such as DevSecOps (a development practice that integrates security initiatives at every stage of the software development lifecycle to deliver robust and secure applications), virtualization, enterprise elements, and the foundational Cyber assets mandated by the DMS. •Expanding test infrastructure and operations to enable rapid, on-demand provisioning across the DoD and Cyber integration with enterprise environments. •Designing consistent, repeatable test methodologies to ensure efficient T&E for changing or emerging technologies. •Providing T&E guidance/oversight to DISA programs, creating synergy and efficiencies across the DISA IT portfolio, and gaining insight in new technologies and commercial best practices. As the only non-Service activity of the DoD Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB), DISA provides a dedicated IT testing environment for a single end-to-end infrastructure. As an MRTFB, JITC provides tested IT infrastructure products to the DoD, Federal/non-Federal Government, Commercial vendors, and Allied partners. The DISA MRTFB: •Encompasses two geographic locations (Ft. Huachuca, AZ; Ft. Meade, MD) and covers 116K square feet of raised floor space comprised of multiple test environments and test networks supporting over 100 programs on an annual basis. •Evolves technologies that leverage efficiencies such as virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, and the foundational Cyber resources. These resources expand test infrastructure and operations to allow rapid, on-demand provisioning, and federation across the DoD and Cyber integration with enterprise environments. •Complies multiple levels of security and supports approximately 1,000 annual testing events to evaluate the DoD's converged information environment, Cyber, Cloud services, Mobility, and NSS. •Includes a significant portfolio of reference implementations, test tools, and supporting IT systems to aid both test execution and data collection/analysis.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2024
- Source ID
- T-40_0208045K_6_0400_PB_2024
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