--------------------------- -------- -------- -------------------- -------- -------- -------- ---------- -------- --------
  **Exhibit R-2, RDT&E Budget                                                                   February            
  Item Justification**                                                                          2006                

  OPERATIONAL TEST AND                          TEST AND                                                            
  EVALUATION, DEFENSE (0460)\                   EVALUATION/SCIENCE                                                  
  BUDGET ACTIVITY THREE                         AND TECHNOLOGY                                                      
                                                (T&E/S&T)\                                                          
                                                PROGRAM ELEMENT (PE)                                                
                                                0603941D8Z                                                          

  \$ in Millions              FY 2005  FY                            FY       FY       FY                  FY       FY
                                       2006\*                        2007\*   2008\*   2009\*              2010\*   2011\*

  PE 0603941D                 14.654                                                                                

  Hypersonic Test             2.887                                                                                 

  Spectrum Efficient          2.027                                                                                 
  Technology                                                                                                        

  Multi-Spectral Test         3.357                                                                                 

  Embedded Instrumentation    2.681                                                                                 

  Directed Energy Test        2.893                                                                                 

  Netcentric Systems Test     0.809                                                                                 

  Advanced Unmanned Vehicle   0.000                                                                                 
  System Development                                                                                                

  Software Test               0.000                                                                                 

  Modeling and Simulation     0.000                                                                                 

  Test Range/Facility         0.000                                                                                 
  Technology Improvements                                                                                           
  --------------------------- -------- -------- -------------------- -------- -------- -------- ---------- -------- --------

**\*Language in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2003 directed
the establishment of the Test Resource Management Center (TRMC). The Act
also requires the TRMC to administer the Central Test and Evaluation
Investment Program (CTEIP) and the Test and Evaluation/Science and
Technology (T&E/S&T) program effective Fiscal Year 2006.**

**Beginning with FY 2006, program elements 0603941D8Z (T&E/S&T) and
0604940D8Z (CTEIP) transferred from the Operational Test and Evaluation,
Defense (OTE, D) appropriation (0460) to the Defense-wide RDT&E (0400)
appropriation. FY 2005 Accomplishments are in the OTE,D appropriation.**

**A. (U) [MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM
JUSTIFICATION]{.underline}**

The T&E/S&T program seeks out and develops test technologies to pace
evolving weapons technology. This program is critical to ensuring that
the Department of Defense (DoD) has the capability to adequately test
the advanced systems that will be fielded in the future. To meet this
objective, the T&E/S&T program:

-   Exploits new technologies and processes to meet important T&E
    requirements.

-   Expedites the transition of new technologies from the laboratory
    environment to the T&E community.

-   Leverages commercial equipment and networking innovations to support
    T&E.

Additionally, the program examines emerging test requirements derived
from transformation initiatives to identify needed technology areas and
develop a long-range roadmap for technology insertion. This program
leverages and employs applicable 6.2 applied research from the
highly-developed technology base in the DoD laboratories and test
centers, industry, and academia to accelerate the development of new
test capabilities. This PE also provides funds to perform travel to
carry out oversight of the T&E/S&T program.

This Research Category 6.3, Advanced Technology Development PE, develops
and demonstrates high payoff technologies for current and future DoD
test capabilities.

**B. (U) [PROGRAM CHANGE SUMMARY]{.underline}**

  ------------------------------------- ------------------- --------------------- ---------------------
                                        [FY                 [FY                   [FY
                                        2005]{.underline}   2006]{.underline}\*   2007]{.underline}\*

  FY 2006 President\'s Budget:          14.654                                    

  FY 2007 President's Budget:           14.654                                    

  Total Adjustments:                                                              

  Congressional Program Reductions:                                               

  Congressional Rescissions:                                                      

  Congressional Increases:                                                        

  Program Adjustment                                                              
  ------------------------------------- ------------------- --------------------- ---------------------

**C. (U) [OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY]{.underline}** NA

**D. (U) [ACQUISITION STRATEGY]{.underline}** NA

E.  **(U) [PERFORMANCE METRICS]{.underline}**

Percentage of T&E/S&T projects progressing satisfactorily toward
technical, financial, schedule, and risk mitigation goals.

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  **Exhibit R-2a, RDT&E                                                   February   
  Project                                                                 2006       
  Justification**                                                                    

  OPERATIONAL TEST AND                  HYPERSONIC                                   
  EVALUATION, DEFENSE                   TEST                                         
  (0460)\                                                                            
  BUDGET ACTIVITY THREE,                                                             
  PE 0603941D                                                                        

  \$ in Millions         FY 2005 FY                  FY     FY     FY     FY 2010    FY 2011
                                 2006                2007   2008   2009              

  Hypersonic Test        2.887                                                       
  ---------------------- ------- ------ ------------ ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------

**A. (U) [MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM
JUSTIFICATION]{.underline}**

The National Aerospace Initiative (NAI) will develop air-breathing
weapons, advanced aircraft, and access to space platforms to operate in
the hypersonic speed regimes Mach 5 and higher. Hypersonic systems to be
developed under the NAI require T&E capabilities in numerous areas
ranging from ground testing (wind tunnels, sled tracks, installed-system
test facilities, and modeling and simulation (including computational
fluid dynamics)) through flight testing. At hypersonic speeds, flight
testing will challenge existing ground instrumentation systems (e.g.,
tracking system slew rate limitations, telemetry dropouts due to
ionization) and range safety decision making. Hypersonic weapon systems
will depend on several new technological thrusts in areas such as
propulsion and engines, structures and materials, guidance and control,
seekers and sensors, warheads and payloads, and weapons delivery
techniques and end-game dynamics - each requiring supporting T&E
capabilities to determine performance, effectiveness, suitability,
survivability, and responsiveness to Command, Control, Communications,
Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR)
systems. Service improvement and modernization programs are addressing
some basic test facility upgrades using off-the-shelf technologies.
However, T&E of hypersonic systems will require technologies not yet
developed or available for T&E purposes. The Department must have
adequate T&E capabilities in place in time to meet current development,
and ultimately, acquisition program schedules. The purpose of this
T&E/S&T focus area is to address these T&E technology issues.

**B. (U) [ACCOMPLISHMENTS/PLANNED PROGRAM]{.underline}**

  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
                                  FY 2005       FY 2006       FY 2007

  Hypersonic Test                 2.887                       
  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------

# **FY 2005 Accomplishments:** 

Investigations initiated in prior years continued. Highlights for these
projects include:

-   Completed Hypersonic Aeropropulsion System Flight Trajectory T&E
    risk reduction efforts to optimize the variable Mach testing
    technologies for the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program
    (CTEIP) Propulsion Test Capability project in the Aerodynamic and
    Propulsion Test Unit (APTU) facility at Arnold Engineering
    Development Center (AEDC). This will allow system developers and
    testers to perform realistic "fly the mission" testing instead of
    the current single Mach number testing performed in existing ground
    test facilities.

-   Completed Hypersonic Wind Tunnel Nozzle Survivability for T&E by
    successfully fabricating new high strength nozzle throats able to
    support wind tunnel testing up to Mach 12 flight conditions.

-   Completed Heat Flux Sensor Development for Aerothermal Measurements
    by successfully fabricating and calibrating miniaturized heat flux
    sensors that can be embedded in hypersonic vehicles to support wind
    tunnel and flight testing. These heat flux sensors demonstrated an
    8-fold increase in heat measurement capacity.

-   Continued Test Media Effects efforts to develop a unique laser-based
    velocity measurement technique that allows simultaneous measurement
    of three components of velocity for characterization of wind tunnel
    environments.

> Initiated new research efforts into Pulsed Electron Beam Spectroscopy,
> Microelectromechanical (MEMS) Shear Stress Sensors, High Heat Flux
> Sensors, and In-Flight Combustion Gas Analysis.

# 

**[FY 2006 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**[FY 2007 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

# 

**C. (U) [OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY]{.underline}** NA

**D. (U) [ACQUISITION STRATEGY]{.underline}** NA

  ----------------------- ------- ------ ------------ ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------
  **Exhibit R-2a, RDT&E                                                    February   
  Project Justification**                                                  2006       

  OPERATIONAL TEST AND                   SPECTRUM                                     
  EVALUATION, DEFENSE                    EFFICIENT                                    
  (0460)\                                TECHNOLOGY                                   
  BUDGET ACTIVITY THREE,                                                              
  PE 0603941D                                                                         

  \$ in Millions          FY 2005 FY                  FY     FY     FY     FY 2010    FY 2011
                                  2006                2007   2008   2009              

  Spectrum Efficient      2.027                                                       
  Technology                                                                          
  ----------------------- ------- ------ ------------ ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------

**A. (U) [MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM
JUSTIFICATION]{.underline}**

Increased commercial use of the radio frequency (RF) spectrum and DoD's
higher demands for bandwidth and test data are impacting the capability
to test current weapon systems. Realistic testing of modern military
systems, and follow-on training at the completion of a defense system's
development phase, rely heavily on the use of the RF spectrum,
especially in the "L" and "S" microwave bands. Signal propagation,
supportable data rates, and other related characteristics make these
bands ideally suited for test telemetry and training applications.
However, these are the same characteristics that make these bands highly
coveted by the wireless communications industry. The growth in the
demand for consumer communication services has resulted in reallocation
of RF spectrum from government to non-government use. The reallocation
of this spectrum, coupled with the increase in activities that use it,
has raised concerns regarding the availability of adequate spectrum to
support test and training. Each new generation of military system
typically generates ten times more data and information than the system
it is replacing, resulting in a 20-year trend of exceptional growth in
the demand for test and training related spectrum. The next generation
of systems will generate proportionately greater data rates that will
exceed the capability of our current test infrastructure. Technological
advances in the spectrum efficiency focus area are required to ensure
that programs will not have to compromise T&E by reducing the number or
quality of tests.

**B. (U) [ACCOMPLISHMENTS/PLANNED PROGRAM]{.underline}**

  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
                                  FY 2005       FY 2006       FY 2007

  Spectrum Efficient Technology   2.027                       
  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------

**[FY 2005 Accomplishments]{.underline}:**

Investigations initiated in prior fiscal years continued. Highlights for
these projects include:

-   Completed SHF Channel Modeling and Implementation efforts to develop
    a channel model characterizing ground interference in the SHF bands.
    Initiated efforts to incorporate effects of sea interference in the
    SHF bands. The final channel model will allow development of
    advanced modulation techniques to mitigate interference in the SHF
    band.

-   Completed Optical Communications efforts to identify technology
    developments required to use optical communications for telemetry.
    The results of this analysis were used to develop portions of the
    FY2006 BAA for Spectrum Efficient Technologies.

-   Continued Spectrally Efficient High Data Rate Telemetry System for
    Super High Frequency (SHF) efforts to conduct flight demonstrations
    of a brassboard AOFDM transmitter and receiver with increased
    throughput to provide robust telemetry in the SHF band. This
    brassboard demonstrated improved link availability for aeronautical
    telemetry applications.

-   Continued Radio Frequency (RF) Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)
    efforts to demonstrate a MEMS-based antenna system that will be
    capable of steering an RF beam and switching between different
    frequencies. This will improve the efficiency of telemetry signals
    and allow the use of a single antenna over different telemetry
    bands.

> Initiated research into Beamformer Antennas..

# 

**[FY 2006 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**[FY 2007 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**C. (U) [OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY]{.underline}** NA

**D. (U) [ACQUISITION STRATEGY]{.underline}** NA

  ---------------------- ------- ------ ---------------- ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------
  **Exhibit R-2a, RDT&E                                                       February   
  Project                                                                     2006       
  Justification**                                                                        

  OPERATIONAL TEST AND                  MULTI-SPECTRAL                                   
  EVALUATION, DEFENSE                   TEST                                             
  (0460)\                                                                                
  BUDGET ACTIVITY THREE,                                                                 
  PE 0603941D                                                                            

  \$ in Millions         FY 2005 FY                      FY     FY     FY     FY 2010    FY 2011
                                 2006                    2007   2008   2009              

  Multi-Spectral Test    3.357                                                           
  ---------------------- ------- ------ ---------------- ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------

**A. (U) [MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM
JUSTIFICATION]{.underline}**

DoD S&T programs are developing new technologies for use in
multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensors, seekers, and detectors for
weapon systems and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
systems. T&E of new multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensors to be used
in these future weapon systems will require new T&E technologies.
Current methods for testing multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensors
rely heavily on expensive field test programs. While these field tests
provide realistic data for sensor testing, they leave several critical
gaps. For example, test conditions are not repeatable because
environments observed one day will be different the next day. Imagery
can be collected and stored to partially mitigate this deficiency, but
this process is expensive and cannot cover the full spectrum of
environments required for complete test article evaluation and
performance analysis. The T&E community needs the ability to test these
advanced seekers and sensors in a repeatable, objective fashion before
and after integrating them into warfighting systems. This T&E/S&T focus
area is addressing these needs through research efforts in scene
generation, injection and projection to create test technologies that
can be combined into integrated multi-spectral and hyperspectral test
capabilities. Without these new T&E technologies, DoD will not be able
to adequately test and evaluate the multi-spectral and hyperspectral
weapon systems of the future.

**B. (U) [ACCOMPLISHMENTS/PLANNED PROGRAM]{.underline}**

  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
                                  FY 2005       FY 2006       FY 2007

  Multi-Spectral Test             3.357                       
  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------

# **FY 2005 Accomplishments:** 

Investigations initiated in prior years continued. Highlights for these
projects include:

-   Completed Dynamic Hyperspectral Thermal Signature Model first
    version of the signature model for test. The initial release
    includes two-way interactions between targets and 3-dimensional
    terrain, vegetation, and cultural background objects to allow
    generation of high fidelity Long Wave Infrared (LWIR) scenes for
    multi-spectral and hyperspectral sensor evaluation.

-   Continued Hyperspectral Testbed Design through successful completion
    of the Technical Design Review (TDR) for the prototype LWIR system.
    The TDR included a detailed design review of the primary subsystems:
    the Thermal Pixel Array (TPA), Digital Micro-mirror Device (DMD),
    and the reverse spectrometer.

-   Continued Multi-Spectral Stimulator Injection Test Method effort to
    fabricate of the prototype system. A Test and Training Enabling
    Architecture (TENA) gateway and real-time radio frequency (RF)
    clutter hardware were successfully integrated into the system.

> Initiated a new research effort into Ultraviolet Light Emitting Diodes
> (UV LEDs) for T&E of Missile Warning Systems (MWSs).

# 

**[FY 2006 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**[FY 2007 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**C. (U) [OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY]{.underline}** NA

**D. (U) [ACQUISITION STRATEGY]{.underline}** NA

  ---------------------- ------- ------ ----------------- ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------
  **Exhibit R-2a, RDT&E                                                        February   
  Project                                                                      2006       
  Justification**                                                                         

  OPERATIONAL TEST AND                  EMBEDDED                                          
  EVALUATION, DEFENSE                   INSTRUMENTATION                                   
  (0460)\                                                                                 
  BUDGET ACTIVITY THREE,                                                                  
  PE 0603941D                                                                             

  \$ in Millions         FY 2005 FY                       FY     FY     FY     FY 2010    FY 2011
                                 2006                     2007   2008   2009              

  Embedded               2.681                                                            
  Instrumentation                                                                         
  ---------------------- ------- ------ ----------------- ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------

**A. (U) [MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM
JUSTIFICATION]{.underline}**

Instrumentation requirements for systems-under-test,
hardware-in-the-loop testing, and training are increasing exponentially
for new weapon systems. Onboard or personnel-borne instrumentation and
equipment are required for sensing and collecting critical performance
data; determining accurate time, space, position, and attitude
information; interfacing with command and control data links; monitoring
and reporting system-wide communications; reporting human operator
performance; and storing and transmitting data. These requirements drive
the need for enabling technologies for miniaturized, non-intrusive
instrumentation suites with increased survivability in harsh
environments.

There is minimal space available for adding instrumentation to new
weapon systems subsequent to their development. Additional weight and
power draw can adversely affect the weapon system's signature and
performance. Instrumentation for humans-in-the-loop, such as a
dismounted soldier, should not detrimentally affect the soldier's
performance or operational burden. New technologies can be exploited to
integrate small non-intrusive embedded instrumentation (EI) into new
platforms during design and development, and, in some cases, into
existing platforms. This EI can provide the required data for T&E,
training, and logistics throughout the system's lifecycle, and provide
the ability to collect critical system performance data during combat
missions.

The use of embedded instrumentation for T&E, training, and logistics has
the potential for significantly reducing the total ownership costs of
new weapon systems while enhancing force readiness. Accordingly, the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Instruction (CJCSI) 3170.01D
states that acquisition programs should include embedded instrumentation
as part of system trade-off studies and design analyses. The EI focus
area will advance T&E technologies needed to facilitate compliance with
CJCSI 3170.01D.

**B. (U) [ACCOMPLISHMENTS/PLANNED PROGRAM]{.underline}**

  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
                                  FY 2005       FY 2006       FY 2007

  Embedded Instrumentation        2.681                       
  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------

**[FY 2005 Accomplishments:]{.underline}**

Investigations initiated in prior fiscal years continued. Highlights for
these projects include:

-   Completed Carbon Monoxide (CO) MEMS for Gas Turbine Engines testing
    of a new design gas emissions sensor. This new sensor will allow
    measurement of CO concentration in the gas stream to support T&E of
    gas turbine engines.

-   Completed D-fiber Optic Sensor fabrication and demonstration of
    multi-axis stress and temperature sensors etched onto D-fiber. These
    sensors will provide a low-cost technique for embedding sensors on
    systems during development.

Initiated new research efforts into High Speed and Temperature
Diagnostics, Open Modular Embedded Architecture, Software Architecture
for EI and Digital Communications Data Bus.

# 

**[FY 2006 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**[FY 2007 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**C. (U) [OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY]{.underline}** NA

**D. (U) [ACQUISITION STRATEGY]{.underline}** NA

  ---------------------- ------- ------ ---------- ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------
  **Exhibit R-2a, RDT&E                                                 February   
  Project                                                               2006       
  Justification**                                                                  

  OPERATIONAL TEST AND                  Directed                                   
  EVALUATION, DEFENSE                   Energy                                     
  (0460)\                               TEST                                       
  BUDGET ACTIVITY THREE,                                                           
  PE 0603941D                                                                      

  \$ in Millions         FY 2005 FY                FY     FY     FY     FY 2010    FY 2011
                                 2006              2007   2008   2009              

  Directed Energy Test   2.893                                                     
  ---------------------- ------- ------ ---------- ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------

**A. (U) [MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM
JUSTIFICATION]{.underline}**

Directed Energy (DE) technologies are rapidly transitioning into
acquisition programs and Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations
(ACTDs). These weapons technologies, which primarily consist of High
Energy Laser (HEL) and High Power Microwaves (HPM), are outpacing their
supporting test technologies. Advancements in HEL and HPM have created a
new class of weapon systems in which energy is placed on a target
instantaneously, making traditional test techniques for evaluating
conventional munitions (with flight times ranging from seconds to
minutes) not applicable to DE systems' T&E. As a result, new technology
solutions are needed to ensure adequate developmental, live fire, and
operational test capabilities are available when the DE acquisition
programs are ready to test.

DE system and component testing requires two principal assessments: how
well the weapon is performing and the specific interaction of energy and
target. The current ability to assess DE systems performance and
interactions is based on effects testing, i.e. determining if and when
the target was destroyed. This does not provide the detailed test data
required to understand DE system performance. Military utility of these
weapons will be dependent on the knowledge acquired through T&E to know
how much to trust the technologies under development and how best to use
them. This T&E/S&T focus area is developing the needed technologies to
quantitatively assess both HEL and HPM performance and target
interaction to support thorough testing of DE systems.

**B. (U) [ACCOMPLISHMENTS/PLANNED PROGRAM]{.underline}**

  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
                                  FY 2005       FY 2006       FY 2007

  Directed Energy Test            2.893                       
  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------

**[FY 2005 Accomplishments]{.underline}:**

Investigations initiated in prior fiscal years continued. Highlights for
these projects include:

-   Completed Beam Redistribution System by successfully assembling and
    demonstrating five single mirrors and fabricating and testing a
    Chemical Oxygen-Iodine Laser (COIL) four mirror prototype system.
    The COIL four mirror system demonstrated the ability to create
    far-field beam characteristics in the near-field to support T&E of
    HEL systems within the limited confines of laser ranges. A
    simulation was also developed to facilitate design of future BRSs
    that can be tailored to specific HEL systems and far-field beam
    patterns. The prototype mirrors were transitioned through the CTEIP
    Directed Energy Test and Evaluation Capability (DETEC) project for
    use at Arnold Engineering and Development Center (AEDC) to support
    lethality testing in the Aerodynamic and Propulsion Test Unit
    (APTU). The simulation software and design documents also
    transitioned to the High Energy Laser System Test Facility (HELSTF)
    through the CTEIP DETEC project.

-   Continued Range Profiles of Turbulence by successfully demonstrating
    the conceptual design of Differential Image Motion (DIM) Light
    Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) system using commercial components.
    This demonstration verified the ability to remotely characterize
    optical turbulence along a HEL beam path to support T&E of laser
    weapon systems.

> Initiated new research efforts into Electro-optical Sensor Technology
> and Dielectric Electromagnetic Field Probes for T&E of HPM systems and
> an Off-Target Temperature Sensor and T&E Adaptive Optics System for
> T&E of HEL systems.

# 

**[FY 2006 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**[FY 2007 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**C. (U) [OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY]{.underline}** NA

**D. (U) [ACQUISITION STRATEGY]{.underline}** NA

  ---------------------- ------- ------ ------------ ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------
  **Exhibit R-2a, RDT&E                                                   February   
  Project                                                                 2006       
  Justification**                                                                    

  OPERATIONAL TEST AND                  Netcentric                                   
  EVALUATION, DEFENSE                   Systems TEST                                 
  (0460)\                                                                            
  BUDGET ACTIVITY THREE,                                                             
  PE 0603941D                                                                        

  \$ in Millions         FY 2005 FY                  FY     FY     FY     FY 2010    FY 2011
                                 2006                2007   2008   2009              

  Netcentric Systems     0.809                                                       
  Test                                                                               
  ---------------------- ------- ------ ------------ ------ ------ ------ ---------- -------

**A. (U) [MISSION DESCRIPTION AND BUDGET ITEM
JUSTIFICATION]{.underline}**

The S&T community is developing advanced Netcentric Systems to support
DoD's Critical Transformational Capabilities---Conduct Information
Operations, Deny Enemy Sanctuary, and Leverage Information Technologies.
Advancements in Netcentric Systems will provide commanders and staff
with an adaptive, network-centric, configurable operational information
visualization environment, which will improve the speed and quality of
command decisions. Information assurance and survivability are central
to achieving these advancements. These advances will enable a spectrum
of operational capabilities ranging from enhanced management and
exploitation of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets to
next-generation tactical radio systems. Successful implementation of
these transformational capabilities will necessitate a corresponding
transformation in DoD's ability to test and evaluate Netcentric Systems.
The Netcentric Systems Test (NST) focus area will address the T&E
scenarios, technologies, and analysis tools required to ensure that
operational networked systems delivered to the warfighter provide an
assured capability to acquire, verify, protect, and assimilate
information necessary for battlefield dominance within a complex
netcentric environment.

**B. (U) [ACCOMPLISHMENTS/PLANNED PROGRAM]{.underline}**

  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------
                                  FY 2005       FY 2006       FY 2007

  Netcentric Systems Test         0.809                       
  ------------------------------- ------------- ------------- -------------

**[FY 2005 Accomplishments:]{.underline}**

Completed stand up of the Netcentric Systems Test Focus Area as the
Information Systems Technology Test (ISTT) focus area with the formation
of the working group and initiation of projects identified by the BAA
process. The name of this focus area was changed to Netcentric Systems
Test to emphasize the warfighting nature of this focus area. Initiated
new research efforts in FY 2005 into Test Agent for Testing Command and
Control, Decision Support and Intelligent Agents; Tactical-Report
Generation Test Bed for C4ISR Systems; and Network Simulation and
Analysis Tools (NSAT) for Command, Control, Communications, Computers,
Intelligence Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR).

# 

**[FY 2006 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**[FY 2007 Plans:]{.underline}** NA

**C. (U) [OTHER PROGRAM FUNDING SUMMARY]{.underline}** NA

**D. (U) [ACQUISITION STRATEGY]{.underline}** NA