ITC/USA 2005 Conference Proceedings / The Forty-First Annual International Telemetering Conference and Technical Exhibition / October 24-27, 2005 / Riviera Hotel & Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada / While military asset testing and training might be seen as complementary in supporting
military prepareness, they cannot complement each other without an effective and
efficient method of distributing data laterally across geographically separated data
gathering, analysis, and display systems. This cost-effective integration of range data
and telemetry resources is critical to ensuring the war worthiness of today’s advanced
weapon systems such as the Joint Strike Fighter and the sensor and weapon platforms
such as the highly sophisticated unmanned vehicles that are beginning to populate the
air, land, and sea areas of operations. To ensure the advantages of range
interoperability are available across the DoD Test and Training ranges, a Central Test
and Evaluation Program (CTEIP) project has developed and is refining the Test and
Training Enabling Architecture (TENA).
The core of TENA is the TENA Common Infrastructure, including the TENA
Middleware and TENA Repository. The TENA Middleware is the high-performance,
real-time, low-latency communication infrastructure used by range instrumentation
software and tools during execution of a range event. The TENA Object Model enables
semantic interoperability among range resource applications by encoding the
information to be communicated among those range applications. It may be seen as a
range community-wide set of interface and protocol definitions encapsulated in an
object-oriented design. The TENA tools, utilities, and gateways assist the user in
creating and managing an integration of range resources, as well as in optimizing the
TENA Common Infrastructure.
TENA has proven to be a critical enabler of distributed live exercises to include the U.S.
Joint Forces Command’s Millennium Challenge 2002, two major Joint National Training
Capability exercises in 2004, Cope Thunder 04-02, and Joint Roving Sands/Red Flag
2005. TENA, as integral part of range data systems, has become an important
component in the realization of range interoperability.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/604793 |
| Date | 10 1900 |
| Creators | Hudgins, B. Gene, Lucas, Jason |
| Contributors | Eglin Air Force Base |
| Publisher | International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Source Sets | University of Arizona |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text, Proceedings |
| Rights | Copyright © International Foundation for Telemetering |
| Relation | http://www.telemetry.org/ |
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