JMETC Distributed Test

The Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) program provides a Department-wide test capability to support system-to-system interoperability testing, mission-level environment testing, and cyber event operations, including cyber testing, cyber training, cyber experimentation, and cyber mission rehearsal. The JMETC program implements the infrastructure capabilities defined in the Department’s “Testing in a Joint Environment Roadmap” to provide acquisition program managers a robust nation-wide capability to “test like we fight.” The JMETC program provides a persistent, distributed test and evaluation (T&E) capability that supports system development to measure and improve interoperability performance and cyber resiliency, and provides a software acquisition pathway that otherwise would not be readily available to Service/Component acquisition programs. The JMETC program is funded within the Research, Development, Test and Evaluation (RDT&E) Management Support Budget Activity because it provides test capability in support of RDT&E programs. By linking distributed facilities, as well as providing the necessary tools, services and subject matter expertise, the JMETC program allows acquisition programs to efficiently evaluate their warfighting capability in a realistic joint mission environment. The JMETC program has been aligned to national strategic guidance to advance the Department’s readiness to experiment and test the development of resilient, survivable, federated networks and information systems from the tactical level up to strategic planning, as well as test and assess cyber defenses that deter aggression and achieve peace through strength.