Major Range Test Facility Base

Abstract

Provides institutional funds for the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB) in accordance with Section 196 of Title 10, United States Code. This provides the Department’s only National Security System/Information Technology (NSS/IT) and MRTFB capability, and as an MRTFB is considered a national asset. In support of this mission, the MRTFB: •Enables direct test support to all Department of Defense (DoD) major NSS/IT acquisitions by providing: oNecessary test capabilities and facilities infrastructure. oProcess tracking and reporting systems. oEnvironment and test tool enhancements, which: Improve testing methodologies, operational timelines, and operational test realism. Allow testing efforts to keep pace with technology. •Provides a single DoD test environment for Services and Agencies to evaluate their NSS/IT capabilities. oPrevents duplication of capabilities. oPrecludes each Service from having to maintain a stove-piped, Service-unique capability. oProvides an overarching Joint infrastructure approach to enhance the DoD ability to fulfill Joint Interoperable Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence (C4I) warfighting mission. oProvides a Joint Test and Evaluation network by converging current test networks that meet the entire spectrum of DoD acquisition process life cycle needs. •Enables DISA’s MRTFB to continue to implement Net Readiness Capabilities Resources (NRCR) to conduct agile, on-demand test services for the Department by providing: oThe DoD with a lifecycle support capability for DoD’s tactical and strategic networks and their interfaces. oCommunications and test environments for current and future Converged Real-time Internet Protocol (IP) services for net-centric systems. •Includes working with industry consortiums on best practices, investing in process based modeling and simulation, and evolving standards-based frameworks to support testing and analysis as a service. Also includes evolving and virtualizing the laboratories to meet future technology changes and enhancements in hardware and testing software with an emphasis on unified capabilities requirements (UCR), and service oriented architectures (SOA) enabled net-centric capabilities.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2011
• Source ID: T40_0208045K_7_0400_PB_2011

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Critical Infrastructure Protection in CBRN and WMD Threats.
• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Software Engineering.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control