End-To-End Interim Report, Phase 1

Abstract : The Joint Advanced Distributed Simulation Joint Test and Evaluation (JADS JT&E) was chartered by the Deputy Director, Test, Systems Engineering, and Evaluation (Test and Evaluation), Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) in October 1994 to investigate the utility of advanced distributed simulation (ADS) technologies for support of developmental test and evaluation (DT&E) and operational test and evaluation (OT&E). The End-to-End (ETE) test is designed to evaluate the utility of ADS to support testing of Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Sensor, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) testing using the Joint STARS system as the system under test. This report describes Phase I of the ETE test during which the test environment components were developed. The components discussed consist of a constructive simulation to provide virtual targets, an E-8C simulation called the Virtual Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (VSTARS), an interface to allow surveillance and control data link (SCDL) traffic from VSTARS to be displayed in the Ground Station Module, and an ADS network suitable for integration and testing.