MRTFB Test, Evaluation and Operations

IOP: • Adopt digital engineering methods and maximize data reuse from previous test events and those conducted by other testers, to include Military Services, contractors, other United States government agencies, state and local governments, allied nations, and private industry to avoid duplication of effort. • Provide greater standardization, increase customer interaction and awareness, improve project management execution, implement greater data collection and analysis automation, and improve service request processes to optimize productivity and test service delivery capabilities. • Increase the use of Modeling & Simulation in the execution of T&E. • Implement agile continuous T&E through integration of JITC test instrumentation at both Continental U.S. (CONUS) and outside CONUS (OCONUS) key test facilities and key operational facilities to reduce test planning requirements and increase test responsiveness. • Adopt use of Artificial Intelligence and Large Language Models to improve efficiency in test product development, such as Master Test Procedures and Requirements Analysis Frameworks for Test. Execute DevSecOps continuous integration delivery software practices and use of containerized, verified, and validated tools as the foundation for T&E agility, rapid test evolution, and speed-to-field. • Advance access to and interoperability of software capabilities and data in accordance with DoW’s Software Modernization Plan. • Conduct testing/assessments of pre-program of record emerging capabilities during technology demonstrations and exercises on behalf of the Office of the Secretary of Defense organizations to confirm how well the new capabilities integrate within existing operational environments to support and improve current missions or to address emerging threats. • Execute Radio Conformance including Second Generation Anti-Jam Tactical Ultra-High Frequency Radio (SATURN). • Conduct High Frequency (HF) radio test efforts in support of world operations. • Increase automated test capabilities for standards conformance and compliance of 508, Standard Financial Information Structure (SFIS), and Records Management (RM). OT&E: • Provide an adaptive continuous Operational Test and Evaluation service to provide value-added test results to decision makers throughout the acquisition lifecycle. • Adopt and integrate a virtual testing capability to support the creation of cutting-edge test environments simulating realistic systems across the full system life cycle. • Establish workforce development plan for Cyber and Operational T&E processes to improve skillsets required to support evolving requirements and software acquisition pathways. • Provide OT&E support to COCOMs, Military Services, and Defense Agencies as requested. Key initiatives will include testing support to the Defense Health Agency for operational medicine modernization, National Security Agency for modernization of Key Management Information, T&E strategy development for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency modernization, and test strategy development of Joint Cyber Warfighting Area for CYBERCOM. Warfighter Support: • Enhance Warfighter Support capability by modernizing JITC system tracking capabilities to respond to critical fielded system interoperability issues. • Increase Combatant Commanders engagement during exercises, contingencies, and real-world operations to improve joint and coalition warfighting interoperability. • Support Command and Control exercises by deploying specialized assessment test teams to various locations to conduct multinational operational test events and provide warfighter exercise support through interoperability and cybersecurity evaluations that assess the degree to which information and services are shared amongst Coalition and Mission Partner systems and identify the cybersecurity posture of warfighting information systems. MRTFB: • Modernize JITC’s infrastructure to meet emerging capability deployment. This includes utilizing cloud infrastructure technology where applicable, co-locating SharePoint applications, revamping knowledge management and resource management processes, and creating or improving rapidly deployable data solutions, such as the System Tracking Program, Electronic Report Distribution system, Joint Analysis Net-Centric Evaluation Testing Toolkit, and JITC Data Analysis Reporting Tool Suite. • Provide a customer-accessible T&E program tracker portal to provide up-to-date program/project cost, schedule, and performance project tracking for command level project tracking and improve inter-stakeholder communications. • Integrate leading-edge technology into T&E services and business applications to provide secure, resilient, and reliable capabilities. • Integrate continuous improvement processes in infrastructure modernization and sustainment to collect metrics that will aid in the forecasting of operating costs, and the availability and reliability of test capabilities. • Develop and execute an integrated ‘multi-range’ concept to leverage and expand range T&E capabilities that increase the interconnectivity of test ranges and ensure the real-time transfer of T&E information at multiple classification levels. • Revamp applicable legacy systems; harden network infrastructure; and develop, test, and maintain new capabilities (Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control, cloud environment, IT infrastructure, and web-based capabilities). • Increase test automation development and improve data support capabilities and analytics. • Modernize heating and cooling IT infrastructure and provide labs cleaner/filtered power. • Continue to operate, maintain, and improve the Cyber Survivability of the DISA test infrastructure at Fort George G. Meade, MD and Fort Huachuca, AZ. JITC test labs will provide an operationally representative developmental test environment enabling rapid development, test, certification, and fielding capabilities.

IOP: • Continue to evolve customer accessibility through enhanced T&E capabilities by integrating DevSecOps, employing automation technologies for cloud testing services, increasing cybersecurity survivability testing services and expanding the occurrence of value-added Joint Interoperability Testing across the Service Test Agencies and Enterprise. • Increase test rigor using scientific-based test design, design of experiments (DOE), modeling and simulation, and test instrumentation and automation. Develop a test methodology to support Joint Interoperability Certification of the Combined Joint All- Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) enterprise. • Persist with risk reduction and identify/analyze trends by employing new technology and methodology to conduct data analysis in the operational environment. OT&E: • Continue to enhance OT&E processes, procedures, tools and leverage new acquisition pathways such as the software acquisition pathway to better support the release of capabilities to the warfighter. • Increase automation and utilize virtualization to better evaluate performance and improve operational testing capabilities for evolving requirements. • Improve Cyber T&E processes by incorporating enabling technologies, increasing workforce expertise, and leveraging government and industry best practices. Improve integration of JITC test services to remove boundaries between DT and OT to improve efficiency and reduce cost and time to test. • Provide OT&E support to COCOMs, Military Services, and Defense Agencies as requested. Key initiatives will include testing support to the Defense Health Agency for electronic health records, enhanced crypto and identity management for National Security Agency, continuous vetting and trusted workforce for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, and testing of Joint Cyber Warfighting Area for CYBERCOM. Warfighter Support: • Sustain Warfighter Support capability sufficient to respond to critical fielded system interoperability issues. • Support Combatant Commanders during exercises, contingencies, and real-world operations to improve joint and coalition warfighting interoperability. • Support Command and Control exercises by deploying test teams to various locations to conduct multinational operational test events and provide warfighter exercise support through interoperability and cybersecurity evaluations that assess the degree to which information and services are shared amongst Coalition and Mission Partner systems and identify the cybersecurity posture of warfighting information systems. MRTFB: • Operate and maintain the DISA IT Test infrastructure standardized test bed at Fort George G. Meade, MD and Fort Huachuca, AZ. JITC test labs will provide an operationally representative developmental test environment enabling rapid development, test, certification, and fielding of capabilities. • Employ technologies and processes to improve the cyber survivability of its test lab infrastructure. Integrate continuous improvement processes in infrastructure modernization and sustainment to collect metrics that will aid in the forecasting of operating costs, and the availability and reliability of test capabilities. • Support the Agency and the Department by reducing the need for manual processes in support of cloud technologies to provide seamless distributed testing services and expand/modernize test automation and equipment. • Develop command wide and specific test service area training programs. JITC will streamline and automate business processes to increase workforce productivity, promote collaboration and transparency, and provide deeper insights into the financial health of the Command. • Maintain a technical workforce, support base operations, communications, and operating expenses at each location.