1. 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 1

2. 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

3. Testing in a Joint Environment
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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

4. Salute to Joint Warfighting Testing in a Joint Environment
Roadmap Genesis
Strategic Planning Guidance FYs :
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

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“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

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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

7. Testing in a Joint Environment
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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

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

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

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Testing in a Joint Environment
QUESTIONS? 10