Major Range Test Facility Base Operations
Abstract
Major Range Test Facility Base (MRTFB) Operations sustain the infrastructure, capabilities and services of DISA’s MRTFB. While maintaining a focus on improving automation, instrumentation and virtualization, this MRTFB is working toward ensuring assets support customers with testing on demand services to enable rapid delivery of enhanced military capabilities at a reduced cost. Test facilities are located in Ft. Huachuca, AZ; Indian Head, MD; Ft. Meade, MD with infrastructure comprised of 140,000 square feet of raised floor space, four acres of outdoor information technology (IT) range space divided into 47 unique environments; reachable through eight different communication networks. Additionally, the infrastructure is compliant with multiple levels of security, scaled to support more than 1,000 annual testing events to evaluate the DoD’s Command, Control, Communications, Computing and Intelligence (C4I) Information, cyber technology and enterprise (Cloud) services. This infrastructure can be configured into more than 350 unique configurations to support any interoperability testing event worldwide. MRTFB Capabilities encompass reference implementation models (RIM) of more than 200 IT systems, testing tools to aid both test execution and data collection/analysis, and structured test and evaluation (T&E) methodologies and processes. – The RIMs represent major C4I capabilities (e.g. data link standards and sensors); Cyber IT (e.g. Public Key Infrastructure(PKI) and Host Based Security System(HBSS)); Command and Control (C2) systems (e.g. Common Data Link); tactical transport systems (e.g. Teleport, HF/RF/UHF); Intelligence Systems (e.g. Motion Imagery and Integrated Broadcast System); enterprise services (e.g. mobile device managers, Infrastructure as a Service, enterprise email); and enterprise environments (e.g. Coalition Interoperability Assurance and Validation, Joint Information Environment (JIE)) and others. – The testing tools expedite T&E in areas supporting Business Transformation (e.g. Hewlett Packard Performance Center); Exercise Support (e.g. Joint Analysis Net-centric Enabled Test Tools); Enterprise Services (e.g. DISA Enterprise Test Environment and TestForge.mil); CYBER IT (Mission Thread Tool) and others. – The T&E Methodology Processes employ a streamlined approach to evaluating customer products against stated capabilities and/or requirements, ensuring they comply with statutory and regulatory mandates. The methodologies are based on structured evaluation criteria designed to: test the critical elements of the product, eliminate over tested products, over priced deliverables and missed deadlines.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2014
- Source ID
- T40_0208045K_7_0400_PB_2014
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