Agile T+E

ManTech Supports Agile/Capability Test and Evaluation Services
Transitioning from traditional to new agile/capability T&E approaches
ManTech provides scientific, engineering, technical, administrative,
maintenance, and logistics support for DoD and Federal Agencies,
performing a broad range of services associated with overall
defense and security missions. In support of Joint, Service, and
Allied/Combined military operations, these services include
comprehensive test and evaluation (T&E) on tactical and strategic
Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence,
Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems and National
Security Systems and Information Technology Systems (NSS/ITS).
ManTech’s T&E support includes:
• Developmental T&E (DT&E)
• Operational T&E (OT&E)
• Combined D/OT&E
• Interoperability (IOP) testing
• Standards conformance testing
• Net-readiness testing
• Information assurance (IA) testing
Through the evolution of T&E, ManTech successfully journeyed from
supporting T&E on point-to-point, standalone systems; to applying agile/
capability T&E on systems of systems (SoS) and Internet Protocol (IP)based web applications. Over the years, we have successfully developed,
tailored, automated, and improved innovative test tools using emerging
technologies and best business practices that met or exceeded everchanging T&E requirements.
Information Technology (IT) Services
ManTech’s testing support team is heavily
involved in transitioning from traditional
T&E processes to new agile/capability T&E
approaches. At JITC, we developed the Joint
Digitally Aided Close Air Support (DACAS)
Variable Message Format (VMF) Messaging
Tool (DVMT) and test cases to allow program
offices to conduct standards conformance
testing early in a system’s development
phase, reducing associated time and costs.
At JITC and EPG, we carefully re-shaped
our teams to support DISA’s and the U.S.
Army’s delivery of tested, new technologybased capabilities and systems in a costeffective and timely manner. Our expertise
includes industry leaders with expertise in
service oriented architecture (SOA), cloud
computing, agile processes, IA, lean six
sigma (LSS), design of experiment (DOE),
and Scrum.
For more than 20 years, ManTech has provided continuous technical
and operational support to the Defense Information Systems Agency’s
(DISA’s) Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) while it established
itself as a Joint testing center of excellence.
ManTech is also supports the U.S. Army Test & Evaluation Command
(ATEC’s) Electronic Proving Ground (EPG). At all EPG locations (Fort
Huachuca and Yuma Proving Ground, Ariz.; Fort Hood and Fort Bliss,
Texas; Fort Lewis, Wash.; Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md; and White Sands
Missile Range, N.M.) ManTech provides a full range of services to support
EPG T&E missions, to include infrastructure, logistics, engineering, quality
assurance, safety, and security.
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This expertise provides DISA and the U.S.
Army with a wide range of capabilities
that can support current and emerging
needs across the entire spectrum of T&E—
anything, anywhere, any time.
Agile/Capability Test and Evaluation Services
ManTech’s test tool developers provide automated test tools to
support agile testing, net ready/key performance parameters
(NR-KPP) net centric data and service strategy (NC DSS), and
data and voice protocol requirements. Using these test tools
our team provides annual support to Empire Challenge,
Coalition Warfighter Interoperability Demonstrations (CWIDs),
and DoD Interoperability Communications Exercise (DICE)
Tri-Annual Assessments and Certifications. Our DVMT also
provides a tool for data stimulation, collection, and analysis
which facilitates development, testing, and fielding of
emerging DACAS VMF capabilities.
• GIG Network Test Facility (GNTF)
- Unified capabilities (UC) conformance
- IOP of any components connecting to the defense information systems network (DISN)
- Approved products listing (APL) and real time services (RTS) spiral 1 testing
- Voice over IP (VOIP) testing
- Multi-vendor capability testing
• Defense Red Switch Network (DRSN) Laboratory
- IOP testing of new system releases
- New feature functionality testing
- Regression testing
- Voice over secure IP (VoSIP) testing
- O&M trainer
• Electronic Key Management System (EKMS) Testbed
- OP testing
- Support to the global system test infrastructure and level II help desk for EKMS tier 2 At EPG, ManTech supports:
• Antenna Test Facility (ATF)
• Environmental Test Facility (ETF)
• Blacktail Canyon Electromagnetic Facility (E3TF)
• Combat Survivor-Evader Locator (CSEL) Test Bed
• Global Positioning System (GPS) Laboratory
• C4I Test Bed (C4ITB)
Summary
Enterprise Design, Integration, and Infrastructure Support
At JITC, ManTech is responsible for engineering efforts
supporting the following test facilities and scenarios:
• Joint Test Facility (JTF)
- Tactical and strategic telephone switching
- War fighter information network-tactical
- Tropospheric scatter radios, satellites, standard tactical entry point (STEP), and teleport emulation
- Line of sight (LOS) microwaves
- High assurance internet protocol (HAIPE)
- Legacy communication security (COMSEC) equipment
- Data and voice traffic loading devices
- Various other military and commercial systems
ManTech has past and current experiences in support of
DoD and federal agencies; implementation of a repeatable
methodology with standardized processes; and development,
application, and maintenance of automated test tools facilitate
the implementation of agile/capability T&E across all T&E
venues. Our dedication to maintaining a team of T&E experts
is evidenced by our ongoing pursuit of innovative ideas and
emerging technologies and continuous process improvement.
For more information contact
Sales, 520.226.3321, [email protected]
Support, 520.538.5005, [email protected]
www.mantech.com

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