Title: Aerial Targets Status An OSD View NDIA Targets, UAVs and Range Operations Symposium
1Aerial Targets Status An OSD View NDIA
Targets, UAVs and Range Operations Symposium
- Mr. Rick Lockhart
- Deputy Director, DTE OUSD(ATL)
- November 18, 2004
2Purpose
- Describe OUSD(ATL) initiative to reinvigorate
Systems Engineering (SE) - Provide OSD DTE perspective regarding targets
- Discuss future challenges regarding use of aerial
targets in TE - Describe DSB Aerial Targets Study
3USD(ATL) Imperatives
- "Provide a context within which I can make
decisions about individual programs"
- "Achieve credibility and effectiveness in the
acquisition and logistics support processes"
- "Help drive good systems engineering practice
back into the way we do business"
4How Defense Systems is Responding
- Formed a new Systems Engineering organization
- Institutionalizing Systems Engineering across DoD
- Setting policy for implementation, capturing best
practices - Setting standards for training and education
- Conduct Program Reviews (System Assessments)
- Provide leadership information to support
decision making - Assist program offices in implementing
disciplined Systems Engineering - Continue to support and provide oversight of DTE
- Conduct outreach with industry, academia,
associations, individual programs, and others
5Defense Systems Organization
6Systems Engineering Organization
7What We Have Doneto Revitalize System Engineering
- Issued Department-wide SE policy requiring a
Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) - Established SE Forum to ensure senior-level focus
- Established SE as theme for 2004 PEO / SysCom
Conference - Instituted system-level program reviews to aid
PMs - Working with Defense Acquisition University to
revise curricula - Instituting a renewed emphasis on MS
- Leveraged close working relationships with
industry and academia - Integrating DTE with SE policy and assessment
functions focused on effective, early
engagement
8Importance of DTE in Acquisition (DTE is a
critical part of good SE)
- Provides an opportunity to find problems early
(Learn) Failure in DTE is OK - Provides information about risk and risk
mitigation - Assesses technical performance and system
maturity - Provides indication of program's development
progress - Confirms weapon system meets technical
requirements - Confirms weapon system's readiness to enter IOTE
- Provides essential information on which to base
acquisition decisions
9Importance of Targets in Acquisition
- Robust Developmental Testing is integral to
successfully fielding weapons - to ensure they work when and how they're
supposed to - Threat representative targets are a critical
resource to adequately test weapon systems - Evaluate effectiveness of weapon systems against
the threat in an operationally realistic
environment - Conduct Live (End-to-End) System Testing
10OSD Target Concerns
- For years, target efforts have been
- Low priority
- Under funded
- Complexity underestimated
- Lagging behind advancements of threats
- Current shortfalls are impacting TE
- Full scale targets
- Supersonic Seaskimming Targets (SSST)
- Threat " D "
11Aerial Target History
Today 25 Years Later
1980
Operational
In Development
In Development
GQM 163 BQM 167
Terminated
Firebrand SLAT Firebolt
12Full Scale Shortfalls
- Navy ceased QF-4 operations in FY2004
- Navy will use AF QF-4s for future full scale
target tests - AF QF-4s not compatible with Navy ranges
- Limits full scale tests to 2 AF ranges
- AF target and range capabilities are not adequate
for all test requirements - F/A-22 program TE adversely impacted
- Inventory of AF QF-4s projected to deplete in
FY2011 - Development of follow-on target lagging behind
- Decision and program start required immediately
to prevent gap
13SSSTs
- Numerous false starts to develop a replacement
SSST - Resulted in great expense and yielded no targets
- Allowed inventory of legacy SSSTs to be depleted
- Delays in GQM-163 development resulted in
FY2004-05 rationing of few remaining VANDALs - 4 Different ship test programs shared 3 targets
7 Required - 3 Different ship test programs shared 1 target
5 Required - Sharing targets results in compromise of test
objectives, increases complexity and risk of
scheduling, and adversely impacts realism and
adequacy of test
14Threat " D "
- Emerging threat, currently fielded in one foreign
Navy - Flight profile unlike any target in current US
inventory - Required for TE of
- SM-6 CIWS
- SM-2 block IV (ER) DDX
- SM-2 block IIIB (MU) SSDS
- ESSM MFR/DBR
- RAM-III
- Studies underway, but no solution identified or
funded
15Challenges to Future TE
- Future threats make TE using live targets more
difficult - Advanced cruise missile and aircraft threats may
be too difficult to replicate - Operational realism may be impossible due to
range safety constraints of stressing targets - Future programs may have to rely more on Modeling
and Simulation (MS) - Verification and Validation (VV) of most MS
today is performed through comparison to live
test data - VV of future MS may depend on limited or
"piecemeal" live test data
16OSD Targets Review
- Concerns raised by DOTE and DTE during DAES
process - AF and Navy directed to brief USD(ATL) on status
and plan to solve target issues - Briefing was held August 02, 2004
- Focus was on full-scale and subscale aerial
targets - Outcome
- OSD will continue to monitor progress
- Review after 6 months
- Conduct DSB study on future target requirements
17Defense Science BoardAerial Targets Study
- Co-sponsored by USD(ATL) and DOTE
- Emphasis is on future threats, and representative
targets - FY 2005 2020
- Possibility of common targets and control systems
across Services - Fidelity of targets, and portions of flight
profiles necessary for adequate training and TE - Alternatives to using aerial targets for training
and TE - Specialized range, instrumentation, or facility
requirements for TE or training - Alternatives for replication of Threat " D "
18Summary
- Emphasis on robust DTE is a critical part of
ATL efforts to reinvigorate SE - Robust DTE requires threat representative
targets - Need to increase priority and funding for targets
- Need to address how we will test our weapon
systems against advanced threats - OSD is taking an increased interest in Service
target programs
19Developmental Test and Evaluation ensures Our
weapons perform as designed and meet Warfighter
requirements. Systems work when and how they're
supposed to
OUSD(ATL) Systems Engineering website
http//www.acq.osd.mil/ds/se/ OUSD(ATL)
Developmental Test and Evaluation website
http//www.acq.osd.mil/ds/se/dte/
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21Back-ups
22DTE Organization Structure
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27Self Defense Test Ship (SDTS)