OPERATIONAL TEST & EVALUATION PERSPECTIVE

1. 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

2. 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. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

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

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