Major Range Test Facility Base
Abstract
Provides institutional funds for the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA’s) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC). JITC serves as the only joint element of the Department of Defense’s (DoD’s) Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB), which is a national asset that is sized, operated, and maintained primarily for DoD test and evaluation support missions. As an MRTFB facility, JITC’s global reach extends to the entire spectrum of the DoD, Federal government, private industry, and allies in support of command and control, intelligence, and defense reform initiatives. This includes commercial entities, which allows JITC to coordinate directly with vendors to obtain critical pre-acquisition test results. This early involvement enables rapid delivery of enhanced military capabilities at lower cost. • Fully enables JITC mission capability, thus making DISA capable of executing its Information Technology/National Security System (IT/NSS) interoperability test and evaluation (T&E) mission mandated in the Chairman of the Joint Chief of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 6212 and DoD policies. • 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 IT/NSS acquisitions (e.g., Net-centric core services, Defense Readiness Reporting System (DRRS), B-52 Combat Network Communications Technology (CONECT), Global Combat Support System (GCSS), etc.) as well as Joint Tactical Data Links (TDL), command and control, global, terrestrial, satellite and tactical communications systems, evolving to hand held and wireless technologies. Supports DISA’s mandated mission to serve as an MRTFB by providing for and maintaining the DISA/JITC IT infrastructure. The environments and test tool enhancements allow testing efforts to keep pace with the rapid change in technology and improve the testing methodologies and timelines for DoD IT/NSS acquisitions. • From an IT/NSS perspective, DISA acquisition and the T&E support coupled with infrastructure of the Global Information Grid (GIG) serve as the DoD's corollary information technology capability. • 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 the DISA MRTFB to continue implementing Net Readiness Capabilities Resources (NRCR), which 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. • Continues 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, 2013
- Source ID
- T40_0208045K_7_0400_PB_2013
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