OPERATIONAL TEST & EVALUATION PERSPECTIVE Salute to Joint Warfighting OPERATIONAL TEST & EVALUATION PERSPECTIVE 42nd Annual NDIA Symposium on Targets, UAVs and Range Operations November 18, 2004 Thomas B. Blann Naval Warfare & Net-Centric Systems OSD/DOT&E Thomas.Blann@osd.mil 1

Testing in a Joint Environment Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment Today’s Realities Transformation Net-Centricity Way Ahead Complexity of Systems and SoS Aging T&E Infrastructure Real-world Commitments 2

Testing in a Joint Environment Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment Background December 2002 – D,OT&E recommendation to SecDef: “ . . . The Department should not only “train as we fight but also “test as we fight.” Department has acted to improve joint operational training through creation of a Joint National Training Center. I believe it should act also to create a Joint Test and Evaluation Capability.” 3

Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap Genesis Strategic Planning Guidance FYs 2006-2011: DoD provide new testing capabilities and institutionalize the evaluation of joint system effectiveness as part of new capabilities-based processes. D,OT&E develop a roadmap for the DepSecDef that identifies the changes needed to ensure that test and evaluation is conducted in a joint environment and facilitates the fielding of joint capabilities. 4

Testing in a Joint Environment Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment “Thorough testing of weapons and supporting systems is a critical function for the Department. As we move force structure, doctrine, and acquisition toward being born joint, we need to change our test and evaluation processes and capabilities. We should test using the joint mission environments in which we expect the weapons and systems to operate. As directed by the Strategic Planning Guidance, we have developed a roadmap proposing changes that will enable the test and evaluation community to ‘test like we fight.’ “ FOREWORD to Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap 5

Testing in a Joint Environment Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap promotes Institutionalizing the need to test in realistic joint environments. Defining capabilities in common, measurable, warfighting terms. Establishing persistent connectivity between battle labs, hardware-in-the-loop simulations, developmental test facilities, and live force Instrumentation. Using the persistent connectivity to achieve robust live, virtual, and Constructive joint mission environments for joint experimentation, Development, test, and training. 6

Testing in a Joint Environment Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment “As a step forward to conducting realistic and adequate joint testing, the Department should: Share test and Joint National Training Capability venues and resources. Allow for increased use of the Guard and Reserve forces, where appropriate; Revitalize modeling and simulation to achieve the Department vision of a decade ago.” - FOREWORD to Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap 7

Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment Joint Mission Infrastructure 8

Testing and Training in a Joint Environment Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing and Training in a Joint Environment Train the way you fight Test the way you fight Combine training and testing, when appropriate 9

Testing in a Joint Environment Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment QUESTIONS? 10