DEFINITION
The processes, disciplines, and governance that enable planning, conducting, and managing interoperability testing and certification for DoD and the developmental, operational, and information assurance testing and certification in support of DISA and DoD.
We will strive for speed and agility to support efficient and effective interoperability testing and certification to facilitate deployment of warfighting capability. We will improve our ability to conduct operational test and assessment. We will expand federation, partnerships, and virtualization and choose methodologies that contribute to the most efficient use of the Department’s test, evaluation, and certification resources. We will work within the regulatory requirements imposed by Title 10, and we will properly coordinate and execute testing, evaluation, and certification throughout the acquisition life cycle with the Military Services and Defense Agencies.
STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES
- Provide responsive, agile, and cost-effective interoperability and
other test, evaluation, and certification (TE&C) to support rapid acquisition and fielding of global net-centric warfighting capabilities.
- Meet the needs of an expanding enterprise infrastructure by developing concepts that will move the test and evaluation community towards “Testing as a Service.” Virtualization and cloud concepts available on-demand will ensure continued improvements and streamline resources across a dynamic DoD test environment.
- Adopt agile or newer testing methodologies that support rapid deployment cycles to complement DISA’s agile development environment. Improve testing efficiencies to reduce the aggregate cost of owning and maintaining an enterprise infrastructure.
- Support the concept of an enterprise infrastructure by creating a migration of the varied T&E networks in use today, to a single T&E network across the Department.
PRIORITIES
- Provide efficient, responsive interoperabilitiy testing and TE&C capabilities as a service.
- Increase effectiveness and efficiencies across T&E with robust proactive virtual methodologies.
- Transform testing within DISA to the paradigm of “Leaders” in Test Driven Development.
- Streamline DISA’s isolated T&E networks into a single network with the enterprise infrastructure providing core services.