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... Department of Defense (DoD) is fundamental to ensuring that these sophisticated systems not only meet their stated requirements, but also perform under realistic operational conditions when faced by determined adversaries employing their own highly capable offensive and defensive weaponry.
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... This study draws on testimony from senior military officers and officials from operational, acquisition, and test backgrounds as well as on test and training experts, leading technologists, leaders from relevant commercial enterprises, and individuals with deep experience in DoD and congressional budget processes. The study committee conducted virtual and physical site v ­ isits to a representative sample of test ranges; collected test range inputs on modernization, sustainment, operations, and resource challenges; and reviewed prior studies and reports from the office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)
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... Enabling speed-to field while maintaining the rigor of operational test and evalu ation will require rapid range modernization for new weapons technologies and new threats. At the same time, key capabilities need to be sustained and even augmented to ensure required test capacity and throughput, while mitigating the issues caused by encroachment both in the physical and radio frequency environ ments.
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... TABLE ES.1  Report Recommendations and Key Conclusions Mapped to Themes Theme Recommendations and Key Conclusions Develop the Conclusion 3-1: The lack of a Department of Defense or joint "range of the publication set of definitions for multi-domain operations and future" to test cyber-physical systems can result in different operational use complete kill cases. chains in JADO environments Conclusion 3-2: Testing ranges are not optimized for testing end to-end kill chains; they were not designed for collaborations with other ranges, and they lack the framework and infrastructure to test concurrent and connected kill chains.
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... Recommendation 3-4: The Department of Defense should broaden the authority of the Test Resource Management Center to address issues of internal encroachment by reviewing internal range policies and actions to ensure that the test groups retain adequate mission space and prevent the placement of equipment or infrastructure that could potentially interfere with test operations. The Director of Defense Research and Engineering for Advanced Capabilities should be granted the authority to mitigate disputes arising over internal encroachment concerns and provided additional funding to manage internal encroachment.
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... Create the Recommendation 4-2: A Department of Defense joint program "TestDevOps" office should adopt and promulgate modern approaches for digital standardization, architectural design, and security efforts to infrastructure address data interoperability, sharing, and transmission challenges for future posed by the complexity of next-generation systems. The joint operational test mission office should determine how to develop and maintain and seamless a protected data analysis tool and model repository for testing, range enterprise increase the interconnectivity of test ranges, and ensure the interoperability development of data protocols for the real-time transfer of data at multiple classification levels.
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... Recommendation 5-2: The Office of the Secretary of Defense should either allow an exemption or set shallower expenditure benchmarks for the first 2 years of test modernization programs. This will reflect realistic expense curves for the technologies and projects needed to test next-generation programs and complex integration.
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  • connected kill
  • requirements development

  • defense joint
  • complete kill
  • acquisition processes
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  • report recommendations

  • test range
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