MRTFB Test and Evaluation
Abstract
As the Department of Defense's (DoD's) only non-Service Joint Operational Test Agency (OTA), the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) conducts Operational Test and Evaluations (OT&E) to determine the operational effectiveness, suitability, interoperability, and survivability of systems. Efforts include: • Conducting lifecycle testing, evaluation, and certification of DoD Information Technology/National Security Systems (IT/NSS) that are acquired, assigned, or managed by the Services, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), and other Defense Agencies. • Designing OT&E events to determine if DISA and other agency’s IT systems meet user requirements, providing sustaining support services to users to help Acquisition Program Managers meet overall milestone objectives. • Ensuring DoD OT&E best practices by working with the Office of the Secretary of Defense to improve Test and Evaluation (T&E) policy for IT systems, designing new test methodologies to better assess Enterprise Service systems, and aligning T&E planning and execution with the Information Technology Service Management model. As the DoD’s Joint Interoperability Certification Authority, the JITC: • Ensures interoperability test and certification standard practices and procedures are in accordance with DoD policy, and reviews and issues over 600 Joint interoperability certifications for DoD’s IT/NSS. • Manages the scheduling and prioritization of multiple annual distributed Joint Tactical Data Link simulated test events using real components (hardware in the loop interoperability test events) designed to evaluate, certify and re-certify Service/Agency Tactical systems. • Provides Interoperability test support within the area of responsibility and conducts exercises to evaluate Joint, Coalition and Allied operations in, or planning to deploy to theater by: – Providing on-demand rapid response contingency support to Regional Combatant Commands (COCOMs), including enhancing the assessment of three of the largest interoperability exercises (the Endeavors). – Maintaining a 24x7 Warfighter C4I Interoperability Hotline and producing lessons learned reports each quarter containing published configurations for confident deployment of any equipment, anywhere and certifying that capability is interoperable in a tactical environment. – Establishing the framework for the conduct of annual independent evaluations and a status of interoperability through DoD Interoperability Communications Exercises (DICE).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- T30_0208045K_7_0400_PB_2014
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