Air-to-Air Missile Testing Using Advanced Distributed Simulation

The Joint Advanced Distributed Simulation Joint Test and Evaluation JADS JTE 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 DTE and Operational Test and Evaluation OTE. The program is Air Force led, with Army and Navy participation, and is nominally scheduled for five years. The JADS JTE is tasked in three areas Investigate the present utility of ADS for TE Identify the critical constraints, concerns, and methodologies when using ADS for TE Identify the requirements that must be introduced into ADS systems if they are to support a more complete TE capability in the future. The JADS JTE is executing its charter by evaluating the application of ADS to the TE of representative military systems. The types of systems selected represent three slices of the TE spectrum a System Integration Test SIT which explores ADS support of air-to-air missile testing, an End-To-End ETE test which explores ADS support for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence C41 testing, and an Electronic Warfare EW test which explores ADS support for EW testing. The JTF will broaden the conclusions developed in the three dedicated test areas by leveraging off of ADS activities sponsored and conducted by other agencies. The SIT consists of two phases. The first phase, the Linked Simulators Phase LSP, has been completed and employed an all-simulator architecture for testing an AIM-9 Sidewinder missile. The second phase is now underway and links live shooter and target aircraft to an AIM-i 20 AMRAAM hardware-in-the-loop HWIL simulation at Eglin AFB.