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Enabling DoD's Test Ranges and Infrastructure to Meet Threats and Operational Needs in the 21st Century Unclassified Summary (2022) / Chapter Skim
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... In an era of near-peer strategic competition in the Western Pacific, conflict in Eastern Europe, emerging technologies, increasingly capable adversaries, new competitive operational domains (cyber and space) , rapid, rigorous, and realistic OT&E is essential to ensuring competitive advantage for the Joint Force and preserving a credible deterrence.
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... The committee reviewed and assessed the threat replication capacity across the OT&E community and found that core challenges stemmed primarily from the S&TI process, the lack of consistent resourcing for threat model development, and the long timeframe for threat model release to the OT&E community. The committee's key recommendations are to adopt threat agnostic models to support OT&E, consistent resourcing of threat model development, and continued S&TI support after Acquisition Milestone C or at key points in alternative acquisition pathways such as rapid prototyping acquisition.
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... The success of OT&E, much like operational military forces, hinges on adaptability and continuous improvement based on the feedback and lessons learned from experience. A future vision of operational testing based on a system-of-systems approach to replicate the realistic employment of the of operational systems across their life cycles can only be achieved through continuously updated threat models, engineering assumptions, and applied real-world experience.
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Key Terms

  • operational test
  • operational testing
  • threat model
  • capability development
  • kill chains

  • future operational
  • future combat
  • operational relevance
  • threat modeling
  • military capability

  • model development
  • digital technologies
  • directed energy
  • consistent resourcing
  • jado environments

  • electronic warfare
  • dramatically reshaping
  • updated threat
  • future vision
  • threat models

  • incorporating threat
  • future operating
  • threat replication
  • improve threat
  • operational superiority

  • threat conditions
  • future fight
  • competitive operational
  • support future
  • future conflicts


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