Test Infrastructure
Abstract
The BMDS Test Program procures, maintains, and manages test resource infrastructure and provides all resources and requirements in support of a robust IMTP schedule in six primary functions: 1) Flight Test Ranges 2) Sea Based Mobile Assets 3) Airborne Optics 4) Flight Test Communications 5) Ground Test Infrastructure 6) IMTP Development & Data Management The primary function responsibilities are as follows: Flight Test Ranges: - Maintain the MDA unique range facilities and mobile sensors, communication, data processing and dissemination infrastructure to support a broad spectrum of test requirements including metric tracking, target characterization, and multi-spectral imagery of BMDS phenomena. - Construct the new Wake Island communications facility and provide enhancements to the fiber backbone providing Flight Test Communications Network (FTCN) services to remote sites. Sea Based Mobile Assets: - Sea Based Systems (SBS) continued sustainment of test instrumentation ships, PACIFIC COLLECTOR and PACIFIC TRCKER, and associated telemetry and radar system. Airborne Optics: - Maintain and procure modified Gulfstream IIBs (HALOs) that collect radiometric and photo-documentary performance data for strategic and tactical defense systems flight and ground tests. - The key FY 2019 initiative is to replace the first ABS (HALO) Fleet Renewal Program sensor airframe. Flight Test Communications: - Provide operations and maintenance support for the Flight Test Communications Network at Wake Island. - Maintain accreditation for the Transportable Telemetry Systems (TTS), Pacific Collector Range Safety System (PCRSS), and the FTCN. Ground Test Infrastructure: - Execute ground test planning activities supporting MDA test requirements and priorities to include test design, test integration, digital assessment, and international testing. - Maintain the hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) Labs and communication test assets. IMTP Development & Data Management: - Establish authority and maintain configuration control of the test baseline. - Develop, update, coordinate and deliver the IMTP, coordinated within MDA and External stakeholders (Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E); the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Developmental Test and Evaluation (DASD(DT&E)); the Joint Functional Component Command for Integrated Missile Defense (JFCC IMD); the Service Operational Test Agencies (OTAs)); and the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)); and provides an affordable and executable test plan to meet Warfighter needs and National Security commitments. - Coordinate the IMTP Special Access Programs (SAP) Annex with respect to changes to SAP Program Test Baseline and synchronize with the collateral IMTP. - Manage the approved test baseline by assessing all proposed changes to the BMDS Test Schedule and Test Configurations for each BMDS test event identified in the IMTP. - Support the Developmental Baseline Reviews and the annual BMDS Accountability Reviews to assess baseline execution risk and verify BMDS components are consistent with the approved test baseline. - Update and maintain the classified Test Resource Mission Planning-Tool (TRMP-T(C)) database. - Execute Flight Test Design Analysis ensuring test designs are safe and sufficient to meet test objectives. - Develop and maintain integrated test tools to support Truth Data Requirements Documents, Truth Data Packages, on-site Truth Quick-Look product development, pre- and post-test analysis test planning, and resource de-confliction; Integrated Data Management Plans (IDMPs), Data Handling Plans (DHPs), Cybersecurity documentation, data planning and management, library operations, deployment process; infrastructure requirements process; and test operations support. - Provide analytical capability for Flight and Ground test planning to include: test design feasibility assessments, truth data and sensor analysis, truth data requirements documentation and data packages; flight safety analysis and flight safety data packages; and telemetry link margin, collision avoidance, and pre- and post-test trajectory analyses. - Review BMDS component programs' content on a quarterly basis to ensure consistency with the approved IMTP. - Maintain and extend the Directorate of Test Support System (DTSS) classified Computer Network Defense Service Provider (CNDSP) to support network cybersecurity defense for ground test network systems. Continue to define cybersecurity investments, risks and benefits used to reduce vulnerabilities and protect critical administrative and test data. - Maintain accreditation of the Orion Voice Switch Conferencing System (VSCS). - Co-Chair the Signature Working Group to review all signature models and identify technical limitations associated with radar and optical signatures used to support Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) ground and flight testing. - Manage the Missile Defense Data Center (MDDC) Program and its library, operations, and infrastructure providing centralized data management, archival, and distribution services. - Maintain ARC infrastructure and networks, complete accreditation activities and ensure cyber compliance of all ARC enclaves. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2019
- Source ID
- aa6a2e7887de1688d47f16bab1264096