Major Range Test Facility Base

Abstract

Provides institutional funds for the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA’s) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) and the Test and Evaluation Management Center (TEMC). These organizations serve as the only joint element of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB), which provides the policy and responsibilities for the management and operation of DoD MRTFB activities. •Fully enables JITC mission capability, thus making DISA capable of executing its National Security System/ Information Technology (NSS/IT) interoperability test and evaluation (T&E) mission mandated in the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 6212 and DoD policies which establish procedures for JITC system interoperability test certification and prescribe DoD policy and responsibilities for interoperability and supportability of NSS/IT. •Provides the necessary test capabilities and facilities infrastructure, process tracking and reporting systems, as well as hardware and software maintenance to enable direct test support to DoD’s major NSS/IT acquisitions (e.g., Net-centric core services, Net Centric Enterprise Services (NCES), Global Command and Control System (GCCS), Global Combat Support System (GCSS), etc.) as well as Joint Tactical Data Links (TDL), command and control, global, terrestrial, satellite and tactical communications systems. Supports DISA’s Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) mandated mission to serve as an MRTFB by providing NSS/IT T&E infrastructure responsible for maintenance and upgrades. The environments and test tool enhancements allow testing efforts to keep pace with the rapid change in technology. All upgrades improve the testing methodologies and timelines for of all DoD and DISA NSS/IT acquisitions that require Joint interoperability assessments and certification in accordance with DoD’s policy for developing, evaluating and providing interoperability and supportability certification of NSS/IT. •From an NSS/IT perspective, DISA acquisition and the T&E support coupled with infrastructure of the Global Information Grid serve as the DoD's corollary information technology capability. Without this project, the Services and Agencies will be forced to operate and evaluate their own service products independent from one another and/or from an overarching Joint infrastructure which will inhibit their ability to fulfill their Joint interoperable C4I warfighting mission. •Includes working with industry consortiums on best practices, investing in process based modeling and simulation, evolving standards based frameworks to support testing and analysis as a service, and evolving and virtualizing the laboratories to meet future technology changes and enhancements in hardware and testing software with an emphasis on unified communications requirements, and interactive web enabled capabilities. •Enables DISA MRTFB to continue to implement Net Readiness Capabilities Resources (NRCR), which will provide DoD with a lifecycle support capability for DoD’s tactical and strategic networks and their interfaces, as well as build communications and test environments for the current and future Converged Real-time Internet Protocol (IP) Services for voice, data and video, Software as a Service (SaaS), NCES, and core services in preparation to conduct agile, on-demand test services for the department. •Enables continued efforts to provision a Joint Test and Evaluation network through the convergence of current test networks that meets the infrastructure requirements to support the entire spectrum of DoD acquisition process life cycle needs.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: T40_0208045K_7_0400_PB_2012

Tags

Fields of Study

• Computer science

Readers

• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

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