Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program
Abstract
Long Range Fires modernization will develop new capabilities to test the effectiveness of new materials and designs used in the leading edges and control surfaces of long range ballistic and hypersonic weapon systems in representative ground test environments. Repeated ground testing under a variety of simulated flight conditions is essential to developing designs with good mass properties and high survivability before undergoing expensive and time-consuming flight testing. Nuclear Enterprise modernization is directed at revitalizing DoD’s nuclear effects test and evaluation simulators, M&S and other test capabilities needed to assess existing weapon systems, weapons modernization programs and mission critical system components that must be tested against these effects. Advanced Communication Threat Testing Suites Uplink Capability project develops an EW threat representative uplink jamming system for T&E of satellite system responsiveness against threat systems. In FY20, the project development initiated, procured material and a prime mover and conducted an interface subsystem test. Full Operation Capability (FOC) is planned in FY22. Accelerated Vehicle Durability Testing project develops a multi-axle vehicle chassis simulator and a drive train simulator in order to test 4 and 5 axle vehicle performance and reliability. In FY20, the project completed preliminary and critical design review and began construction of the simulator foundation. FOC is planned in FY22. Advanced Dynamic Transmitter Array project develops a suite of active electronically scanned array antennas to conduct EW testing using unique classified threat signals and dense EW environment at the Benefield Anechoic Chamber that cannot be conducted in open air testing. During FY20, the project completed a single stream test of RF components, continued subassembly manufacturing, assembly and test. The design has been transferred to the Air Force 412th EWG to assess options for future development. Advanced Range Tracking and Imaging System project develops an integrated next generation suite of optical tracking systems to increase performance, reduce costs and establish secure reliable optical tracking capability on DoD open-air ranges. During FY20, the project completed a capability demonstration of the Fly-Out System and the Initial Design Review of the Close-In System. Initial Operational Capability is planned in FY22. The Short-Wave Infrared Zoom Lens project develops a short-wave infrared metric zoom lens to be mounted on multiple DoD tracking systems to track, determine effects phenomenology, and TSPI of aerial directed energy targets at night and in obscuration. During FY20, the project finalized the requirement, awarded the contract, and the developer completed design and initial manufacturing of the lens. FOC planned in FY21. Advanced Weapons Effects Test Capability project develops an array of high-speed cameras and fragment tracking software to accurately measure warhead fragments 2mm and above to establish higher fidelity for Joint Munitions Effects Manual (JMEM) damage and safety zones improving the warfighters’ ability to effectively use the mix of weapons systems available. Capabilities will be delivered at Eglin AFB, FL, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD and China Lake, CA. During FY20, the project completed testing and installation at all three ranges. IOC was achieved in FY 2020. Air Warfare Battle Shaping project is a joint Navy, JSF, and TRMC development to provide a telemetry and real time casualty assessment capability similar to AARI-2 for F-35 OT at Pt Mugu, China Lake, and Edwards AFB. IOC was achieved in FY20. Airborne Early-warning Interoperability Simulator project establishes an ISTF capability to emulate an operationally representative, dense radar target environment for injection-mode ground-testing of the E-2D mission system. In FY20, the project finalized the Clutter and Multipath remediation, site integration and FOC at NAS Patuxent River, MD. Autonomous Systems Test Capability - Ground project develops a Digital Robotic and Autonomous Systems Integrated Virtual Environment (DRIVE) for testing DoD autonomous ground vehicle systems and an open-air range Safety Environment, Engagement and Response (SEER) capability to safely test full scale autonomous vehicles. During FY20, the DRIVE sub-project completed architecture design, awarded development contracts and started work on Software Release 1. The SEER sub-project awarded the development contract. IOC is planned in FY22. Autonomy Integration and Teaming project develops a suite of capabilities furthering UAS systems integration into controlled airspace and the test tools for integrating manned-unmanned teaming between ranges. Capabilities will be delivered to NAS Patuxent River, MD, Redstone Arsenal, AL and Edwards AFB, CA. During FY20, the project completed CDR for the Guardian airspace control subproject and system requirements reviews for other subprojects. Subprojects will achieve FOC between FY22-25. Battlefield Awareness Testbed project develops a full-spectrum mobile laboratory with cross-domain tactical communications and network, data link, video, and mission data collection capability. In FY20, the project completed panning and long lead item procurements. IOC is planned in FY22. Closed Loop PESA Simulator project develops two transportable, closed-loop threat radar systems replicating the performance of a classified, widely fielded long-range surface-to-air missile system. IOC is planned in FY21 at Nevada Test and Training Range. FOC is at Eglin AFB, FL in FY22. The Navy has already fielded a fixed-site configuration at the Advanced Anti-aircraft Threat Simulator at China Lake, CA. The Air Force funded ARTV-2 mobile variant is based on this design. Common Modeling and Simulation Threat Environment for Long Range Strike (LRS) Family of Systems project upgrades constructive mission-level models to evaluate LRS Family of Systems survivability performance against a modern threat Integrated Air Defense System. IOC is planned in FY21. Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) develops the next generation tracking system for DoD aircraft providing sub-meter Time-Space-Positioning Information (TSPI) accuracy and data bus information with four levels of Multiple Independent Levels of Security for testing aeronautical systems. CRIIS fielding to seven DoD ranges is underway during FY20. Also, during FY20, the CRIIS Operating System is being upgraded to Windows 10 compliance with DoD CIO requirements. IOC is FY21 with modernization efforts continuing FY21-26. Common Vehicle and Engagement Real-Time Test Instrumentation project reduces the size, weight and power for vehicle test data collection by replacing three unique data collectors with one modular, scalable data collector with increased storage capacity. In FY20, the project finished final modifications and completed production. This capability supported Abrams M1A2 System Enhancement Package (SEP) V3 and Bradley M2/M3A4 FOT&E during FY20, and will support future vehicle tests FY21-26. Directed Energy Advanced Wideband System develops a wideband VHF test source to illuminate a full-sized aircraft for MIL-STD 464C vulnerability testing. During FY20, the project accelerated the build-out of 50 and 100 MHz modules. IOC is planned in FY21. Directed Energy S-Band Threat Source project develops a frequency agile S-band HPM threat source for MIL-STD 464C vulnerability testing. During FY20, the project completed requirements analysis and started the source selection process. IOC is planned in FY23. Dynamic DIADS Control of CEESIM software development project networks nodes of an existing classified threat air defense system. In FY20, this project completed a feasibility analysis and initiated development. IOC is planned in FY21. General Threat Torpedo project develops a threat representative torpedo vehicle that tactically and acoustically emulates threat torpedoes that are not currently available for surface or sub-surface ship testing. In FY20, the project completed demonstration of the High Speed Quiet Propulsion System. IOC planned in FY23. Government Radiometrically-Accurate Instrument for Laser Evaluation project develops a radiometrically accurate HEL diagnostic system for confirming performance of current and future HELs. During FY20, the project completed requirements analysis, contract award, and contract kick-off. IOC is planned in FY23. High Power Microwave E-Field Sensor project develops a portable wide area measurement system to test blue HPM effectiveness against airborne threats. During FY20, the project completed requirements analysis and contract award. IOC is planned in FY21. High Power Microwave VHF Threat Simulator project develops a test source to support wideband VHF MIL STD 464C testing of a full-sized target such as an aircraft. During FY20 the project started requirements development and planning. IOC is planned in FY23. Directed Energy High Speed Data Recorder project develops a high-speed data recording system for High Power Microwave directed energy testing. During FY20 the project started requirements development and planning. IOC in FY22. Directed Energy Remote Target Status Sensor develops a system capable of measuring HPM effects on internal components attacked by HPM systems. During FY20 the project started requirements development and planning. IOC in FY22. Directed Energy Tethered High-Power Microwave Recorder and Electronic Attack Target project accelerates development of instrumentation necessary for testing UAS vulnerabilities in an HPM threat environment. During FY20 the project started requirements development and planning. IOC in FY23. Dense Plasma Focus project develops an ultra-short pulse simulation capability to test the vulnerability of missile components to very short, intense bursts of neutrons from a fusion-based nuclear weapon. During FY20, the project conducted facility planning at White Sands Missile Range and prototype testing. IOC is planned in FY25. Direct Inject Jammer Common Operating Picture project develops a real-time situational awareness, data collection and analysis system for the Army Integrated Threat Force Direct Inject Jammer system to track health, status and geolocation information for test and training at JRTC, Ft Polk, LA and JMRC, Hohenfels, Germany. Development continued during FY20. FOC is planned in FY21. Fast Burst Reactor Upgrade project develops new high purity, high enriched uranium rings and safety blocks for the fast burst reactor at White Sands Missile Range, NM to conduct neutron vulnerability testing of missile and other components. In FY20, the project completed the casting, machining, coating and delivery of two safety blocks and started development of the four rings. IOC is planned in FY24. Ground Based Radar Upgrade project funds design work to accelerate the radar radome replacement at the Reagan Test Site and provide system upgrades to enhance safety of flight and position information accuracies. During FY 20, the project started development of necessary engineering design drawings. Global Position System Localized EW Emitter develops a low power, vehicle mounted GPS jamming capability for testing of ground vehicle communications and navigation systems against GPS jamming. System to be fielded to the Army's Integrated Threat Force. FOC FY20. Hypersonic Test Capability Improvement project develops a clean air, variable Mach ground test capability from Mach 4 to Mach 7.5 in 3 Blocks for DT&E of hypersonic boost glide and scramjet weapon systems. In FY20, the project continued the development of Block 1. IOC is planned in FY23. Mid Pressure Arc Heater Upgrade develops and installs a new Power Supply in the DoD H2 Hypersonic Test Facility at Arnold AFB, TN and enables this arc heater to conduct longer run times on larger test articles to support thermal protection system testing of hypersonic systems. In FY20, the project awarded the development contract and completed 10% and 30% design reviews. IOC is planned in FY23. Mach 18 test capability at the AEDC Tunnel 9 development provides aerodynamic and aerothermal data to support boost glide weapon systems, conventional prompt strike, and maneuvering reentry vehicles. IOC achieved in FY20. G Range Weather Effects project upgrades the current G-Range test track to provide a small-scale rain and snow erosion test capability to validate vehicle structural design. In FY20, the project completed the design, development, and delivery of rain and ice shakers. IOC is planned in FY21. High Speed Test Track Weather Effects project develops a full-scale rain erosion capability to validate vehicle structural design and qualify hypersonic weapon systems for flight in an open-air facility at Holloman AFB. In FY20, the project completed installation and acceptance testing at the High-Speed Test Track. In FY21, the project plans to conduct full system demonstration runs. IOC FY21. High Altitude LIDAR Atmospheric Sensing - Ground Based project provides DOD test ranges with the design for a LIDAR-based instrumentation system that improves measurements of atmospheric conditions for launch and recovery operations. In FY20, the project completed the PDR. M&S for Maneuvering Boost Glide Vehicles - Transient Thermal Analysis Software project upgrades a tool set improving capabilities for predicting aerothermal and ablation response to high speed, high temperature flow in ground and flight test environments. In FY20, the project completed delivery of Level 2 software to over 20 customers for IOC. M&S Enhancements Weather Effects project develops advanced material response models validated with ground test data to predict weather erosion in flight. In FY20, the project completed upgrade of the Particle Impact Test Facility and completed weather test planning support for G-Range and the High-Speed Test Track. Reconfigurable RF Target Simulator project upgrades an Eglin AFB facility to test prototype sensors in a simulated hypersonic target and scene environment. In FY20, the project completed development of the array wall and integration of RF sensors. Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit -Freejet Calibration project develops instrumentation for and calibrates the APTU Mach 6.4 freeject nozzle pressure and temperature profiles as a baseline for customer testing. In FY20, the project completed planning and initiated development. High Pressure Air Compressor project provides additional air compressor capability at AEDC to reduce recharge time from 13 to 8 hours resulting in more test runs per week at the AEDC Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) and J5 facilities. In FY20, air compressor development was completed and delivered. IOC is planned in FY23. Hypersonic Tunnel Facility Plum Brook project initiates efforts to re-activate the NASA Glenn hypersonic wind tunnel in Sandusky, Ohio. In FY20, the project secured an Interagency Agreement with NASA to complete an engineering study of the facility. IOC is planned in FY26. Joint Economical Sled Track Rocket project develops a new modular propulsion system for the three DoD high speed test tracks including an improved capability to ground test full scale components at hypersonic speeds. In FY20, the project completed requirements development and acquisition planning. Development contract will be awarded in FY21. IOC in FY23. Improved Encrypted Flight Termination System for hypersonic weapons tracking and flight safety development was initiated in FY20 as part of a larger Range Safety system upgrade for the Reagan Test Site for supporting hypersonic weapons testing. IOC is planned in FY22. Reagan Test Site Non-Ballistic Radar Tracking project develops advanced, non-ballistic tracking algorithms and the supporting infrastructure to track non-ballistic Hypersonic vehicles vs. current ballistic re-entry vehicle flight paths. Development was initiated in FY20. IOC is planned in FY22. Integrated Air Defense Systems Enhancements and Networked Threat Emulation project develops a comprehensive threat-representative Integrated Air Defense System capability at the Electronic Combat Range, China Lake and other facilities providing four threat-representative Command Posts to existing EW capabilities. FOC is planned in FY21. IR and RF Threat Modeling and Simulation Project upgrades 10 Radio Frequency and 10 Infrared authoritative Intelligence Community missile models supporting the DoD Threat Model Analysis Program (TMAP), Enhanced Missile SIGnature (EMSIG) and other high-fidelity seeker models. FOC is planned in FY23. Joint Electronic Warfare Cyber Techniques, Effects and Characteristics development provides an EW Radio Frequency and Cyber effects test environment for Electromagnetic Maneuver Warfare. Development was initiated in FY20. IOC is planned in FY22. Joint Electronic Warfare Digital Integrated Air Defense System (DIADS) Integration upgrades DoD’s DIADS System M&S capacities to support expansion of EW testing across western test ranges. Development was imitated in FY20. IOC is planned in FY21. Joint Electronic Warfare Mobile Radar System Target Engagement Radar development was initiated in FY20 to evaluate alternatives and prototype development. Initial results in FY21. Joint Electronic Warfare Advanced Programmable Threat Radar AoA was initiated in FY20, and will be complete in FY21. Joint Electronic Warfare Airborne Instrumentation Interoperability development was initiated in FY20 to maximize airborne instrumentation interoperability between the CTEIP developed Common Range Integrated Instrumentation Systems (CRIIS) and Air Force/Navy Tactical Combat Training System-II (TCTS-II), and establish blueprint for merging baselines into a common system. Development will continue in FY21-26. Joint Electronic Warfare Open Air Battle Shaping development was initiated in FY20 to establish an enterprise architecture and approach to implement multi-range aircraft instrumentation interoperability and network connectivity to meet test and training needs for air warfare missions. This includes upgrading aircraft instrumentation and multi-range aircraft compatibility needed to provide enlarged, interoperable battlespace as aircraft transit multiple ranges during a large-scale test and training scenarios. Development will continue FY21-26. Joint Electronic Warfare Multi-Lab EW Integration development was initiated in FY20 to integrate key EW test facilities and assets at NAS Pt. Mugu, CA in order to expand land and sea range EW testing. IOC is planned in FY21. Mid- Pressure Arc Heater project development expands the DoD H2 Hypersonic Test Facility to provide higher enthalpy at the mid-pressure altitudes to enable ground testing of Prompt Global Strike, Maneuvering Reentry Vehicles, and SCRamJet components such as nose cones, other leading-edge surfaces, and fins. IOC was achieved in FY 2020. Mobile High Energy Laser Measurement project is comprised of seven development efforts for testing High Energy Lasers including: the measurement of beam irradiance on various classes of UAV targets (Subsonic, Supersonic, Small UAS, etc.), mobile ground diagnostics, and test tools. During FY20 all subprojects continued development. IOCs related to each development effort FY21-25. Naval Autonomous Systems Test Capability project establishes an M&S capability to test the performance of Naval surface ship autonomous systems software. During FY20 project requirements and planning was initiated. IOC is planned in FY24. Next Generation Electronic Warfare Environment Generator project develops a high fidelity, modular, scalable, reconfigurable EW environment generator for HWIL and ISTF EW systems testing. Development was completed in FY20 with IOC at NAS Patuxent River, MD. Additional systems to be fielded at DoD test facilities FY21-26. Net Centric Warfare T&E Environment project develops an operationally representative modeling and simulation environment to evaluate the full kill chain for net-centric weapons with realistic network loading and radio frequency effects. FOC in FY20. Open-Air Multi-Spectral Data Collection project develops an open-air test capability for T&E of integrated multi-spectral threat warning receivers and infrared countermeasures against complex multi-spectral threats. Development includes the ability to characterize performance of FLIR targeting, laser designator, illuminator and laser range finder systems. Project planning was completed in FY20. Sub-project IOCs are planned FY22-23. Over Water Impact and Location Scoring System project develops an ocean-going weapons impact scoring system to provide persistent, relocatable range capability for open-ocean, beyond line of sight, high precision weapon scoring and range surveillance. Development was initiated and project planning completed and long lead material items were procured in FY20. IOC is planned in FY24. Radar Air-to-Ground Environment project development is comprised of three blocks for testing high-density air-to-air (A/A), air-to-ground (A/G) and advanced signals (AS) in an ISTF environment. The radar environment simulator will provide digital radio frequency memory devices that capture, store, delay, scale, and return radar signals to the radar under test. During FY20, all three blocks of development completed separate Critical Design Reviews. FOC is planned in FY22. Radar Cross Section Range Relevance project is comprised of eleven development efforts providing upgraded and new RCS measurement capabilities to measure and evaluate advanced low observable technologies in increasingly complex and cluttered environments. During FY20, the Atlantic Test Range completed PDR and the National RCS Test Facility completed the digital signal processing, fiber optic, full site perimeter security subprojects. FOC is planned in FY24. Swarm Autonomy and Scoring project develops semi-autonomous control for the Navy’s High-Speed Maneuverable Surface Target (HSMST) enabling a single operator to control up to 8 HSMST providing cost savings and significantly greater formation accuracy and a new UAV-based overhead scoring capability for testing ship self-defense ship weapon systems and weapon impacts against representative surface swarming threats. FOC FY20. Scene Projector development to improve high fidelity, high temperature scene protectors for installed system and hardware in the loop laboratory testing of sensors and seekers for high speed weapons and missile engagements continued development during FY20. IOC is planned in FY26. Counter Unmanned Aerial System (cUAS) project develops of a prototype high-fidelity X-band radar for tracking cUAS capabilities against commercially available small UAS. The project provides a Common Operating Picture system for real-time awareness, data collection and analysis. Development was initiated and CDR completed in FY20. IOC is planned in FY21. Adaptable Multi-Band Asset for Global Navigation Satellite System project develops a threat representative multi-modal global navigation satellite system jammer to provide denial and deception jamming of PNT information during operational test and training. In FY20, development was initiated with design complete through CDR. IOC is planned in FY21. Quantum Encryption Key project is a proof of concept prototype demonstration of quantum technology encryption key distribution to secure communication system’s transmissions. QKD completed CDR and a brass board bench test capability in FY20. Prototype IOC is planned in FY22. Threat High Output Repeater Extender project develops a threat representative, high-power, cover/knock-off jammer to provide denial and deception jamming during operational test and training. A prototype system completed site acceptance testing during FY20. IOC is planned in FY21. Ground Unattended Threat Sensor Suite project develops an array of threat representative acoustic, seismic, magnetic, and video sensors with real time awareness, data collection and analysis for test and training. Development was initiated during FY20, and an analysis of alternatives completed. IOC is planned in FY21. Cyber Operational Resiliency Assessment Platform project develops a cyber- electronic warfare operational resiliency assessment capability for the Army Threat Systems Management Office. Development was initiated in FY20. IOC is planned in FY21. Capability assessments will continue FY21-23. Electronic Attack-5G development provides a threat representative Electronic Attack capability against 5G systems for denial, degradation and deception of service attacks during operational test and training. In FY20, development was initiated and initial project planning completed. FOC is planned in FY23. RF-enabled Cyber-Physical Toolkit development provides an RF-enabled attack and exploitation, data collection and analysis capability to evaluate systems under test during operational test and training. In FY20, development was initiated and project planning completed. FOC is planned in FY23. Cyber Tools for Aviation RF Access Points project develops a suite of cyber-attack tools to stimulate both civil and military IFF/GPS RF access points and semi-automatically identify abnormalities in the MIL-STD-1553 data traffic from cyber-attacks. This project was completed and successfully demonstrated the cyber test capability on an Apache helicopter in FY20. Cyber Battlefield Operations Support System BOSS develops a Mil-Std compliant data link test application to validate platform interoperability across Link 16, VMF, SADL and JREAP as well as other data link protocols. During, FY20, the project validated requirements and awarded the contract for cyber applications. IOC is planned in FY21. Full Authority Digital Engine Control (FADEC) Tool project develops an MH-53K Sea Stallion FADEC test bench and cyber tools to assess the cyber vulnerabilities of the main communication and control channels and data links. In FY20, the project delivered the MH-53K FADEC test bench. IOC is planned in FY21. Network, System Integration and Test Environment (NSITE) – Cyber Test Capabilities project expands the NSITE application to include cyber capabilities to: monitor, check for, alert on, identify messaging, and identify the source of the messaging, that is modified, or indicates a modification (“tip-off” capability). During FY20, the project was completed and available to NSITE users. IOC is FY20. Radio Frequency (RF) Replay Tool develops cyber tool set to support evaluation of 1 to 5GHz systems by providing streaming file access for both read and write of multiple signal formats as well as FPGA support for very short capture and replay where time is of the essence. During FY20, the project completed development, was demonstrated a representative test environment and delivered a complete hardware list, software suite, and accurate installation directions. IOC is FY20. Satellite Communications Tool project acquires two SATCOM systems (INMARSAT and Iridium) and develops of a common toolset to evaluate the impact of cyber-attacks against SATCOM systems on air platform performance. The project was initiated in FY20. IOC is planned in FY21. Weapon Cyber Test Tool Set project develops cyber test capability for weapon and aircraft systems for MIL-STD-1553B (Ripley and OSCAR enhancement), Controller Area Network (CAN) bus in fire control and stores management roles 1553 Enhanced Bit Rate (EBR) and IEEE 1394 (FireWire). The project was initiated in FY20. IOC is planned in FY22. X-Ray Simulator for Test and Evaluation of Nuclear Survivability project replaces and upgrades three DoD X-ray simulators that measure the susceptibility of missile components to damage from high dose warm and cold x-rays experienced in space. In FY20, the project completed project planning, source selection and contract award for replacing DTRA’s Double Eagle simulator. IOC is planned in FY23.
Document Details
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- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
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