Advancing Operational Test Infrastructure Acquisition (AOTI)

The ILTE is a portfolio of related development efforts that is designed to deliver a system-of-systems set of capabilities that would provide a Real-Time Casualty Assessment (RTCA) and instrumentation suite that delivers a high-fidelity, realistic, real-time capability to measure hardware and warfighter performance in modern combat environments. The suite of planned ILTE capabilities will enable testing and training under tactical conditions for small- and large-scale operations while integrating cyber and electromagnetic activities effects in support of the Army’s major modernization programs. The ILTE achieved its initial capability delivery in February 2019, and enabled the U.S. Army to test all identified future weapon systems in realistic operational environments. ILTE improves test rigor and realism to foster transition of RDT&E-developed performance enhancements and technology upgrades to the operational community. This effort will facilitate the continued development and

enhancement of the initial capability of ILTE. This enhanced ILTE will provide capabilities directly supporting operational testing of Army acquisition and ACAT 1 programs. Specifically, it will continue to develop near-peer threat live, virtual, and constructive components that will operate within the ILTE environment.  The simulator/simulations developed shall be reconfigurable/programmable threat simulators and simulations – this will allow the baseline ILTE system hardware to support communication and processing capabilities that enable RTCA within a common architecture.  RTCA simulators and simulations shall include kinetic weapons as well as directed energy weapons, electronic warfare, cyber operations, and a converged EW/Cyber capability – the bandwidth and security requirements for these systems are key drivers for the requirements of ILTE.  ILTE is designed to support single, one-on-one RTCA evaluation as well as a much larger system-of-systems testing, which will require significant portions of the testing to be simulated with high-fidelity modeling.  Capacity to support multi-level security for large-scale events, which include EW, kinetic weapons, cyber, and EW/Cyber convergence, is the main purpose of the ILTE environment.