ADAPTING EXPERIMENTATION AND TESTING
RANGE OF COMMUNICATION
The Distributed Test Control Center can link two or more ranges across multilevel security networks to create an integrated test environment. The capability is used to assess system performance and effectiveness against real and simulated threats in an operationally relevant LVC environment. (Photo by Steven Lowther, Aberdeen Test Center)
forms of maneuver that would otherwise be too costly or impractical to perform in a live environment.
“We created an operationally relevant learning environment by connecting a number of test facilities from across the country through an innovative test network provided by the Test Resource Management Center,” said Paul Weimer, a supervisory engineer at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center, a subordinate of ATEC. “To achieve the scale commen- surate of an MDO environment, the physical test capabilities were integrated and synchronized with virtual systems using the LVC construct.”
Weimer explained that the live, virtual and constructive environment enables experi- mentation with new scenarios that could not be tested and evaluated in live-only or virtual-only settings. Tese scenarios test the user and the materiel solutions in real time and provide additional data that enables users to be better prepared if a similar scenario occurs in a tactical environment. “In order to get to an opera- tional level of scale, we need to supplement the live assets with virtual assets in a way that the user is unable to tell whether the system is live or virtual,” he said. “Te systems in the LVC environment respond in the same manner as the systems in the real-world environment, which allows us to build up the scale of the experiment,
test or exercise. Using LVC, we’re now getting after an operationally realistic, scaled MDO environment.”
Weimer described one of the threads demonstrated at the October 2023 event. A live, fielded tactical vehicle was placed in an electromagnetic interference (EMI) chamber, a controlled environment used to test radio frequency emissions, suscep- tibilities and interference. While in the chamber, the tactical vehicle was secured to a dynamometer, a device that measures torque and engine power and enables a vehicle to operate in different driving conditions.
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