Joint Distributed Engineering Plant (JDEP)
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JDEP is a DoD-wide effort to link existing service and Joint combat system engineering test sites by providing facilitates access, coordination, scheduling, and technical support to replicate Joint operational environments through the reuse of simulation and Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) and Software-in-the-Loop (SWIL) capabilities. JDEP's focus is to conduct events on a Joint level to synchronize efforts, resources, and assets across the Services by critical mission areas.
Raytheon VTC is intimately involved in JDEP efforts, providing systems engineering support for federation integration, federation management, federate validation, interoperability expertise, and tools to support activities across the JDEP mission space. One particularly crucial area we support is JDEP's testing of Single Integrated Air Picture (SIAP) objectives for several Services. air defense systems. In a series of HWIL pilot events that includes testing of the Navy's E-2C Hawkeye Airborne Early Warning System, Army's PATRIOT Missile, and surface Navy's AEGIS Air Defense System, JDEP is investigating the sensitivity of systems to SIAP performance goals. These successful tests will soon lead to the JDEP Combined HWIL Events (JCHE), in which the integration of systems can be tested for SIAP objectives. In this way, the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC) can combine combat systems hardware with sensor and other simulations to examine their performance individually and ultimately together as an integrated systems-of-systems, identifying integration problems early to save time and precious resources.
The following quote captures the significance of Raytheon VTC's support for this challenging effort:
"Thanks for your team's outstanding contributions to the recent [JDEP] AEGIS Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL) Pilot event. Raytheon Virtual Technology Corporation proved to be indispensable in planning the simulation architecture and running the scenario data during testing. Their personal commitment carried us through some tough issues and I'm pleased with the results." |
