TEO DSEEP SG - Test & Evaluation Overlay for the Distributed Simulation Engineering & Execution Process

The DSEEP is a tailorable systems engineering standard for developing simulation federations. The DSEEP intentionally doesn't focus too closely on the needs of particular domains or set of users, but rather is intended as a high-level process framework which can be used by distributed simulation environments such as Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS), High Level Architecture (HLA), Common Training Instrumentation Architecture (CTIA) and Test & Training Enabling Architecture (TENA). The need for such specific guidance for particular architectures or usage domains will be filled by overlays to the DSEEP. One of the domains in need of specific guidance is formal system Test and Evaluation (T&E), a domain in which the simulation environment may be an asset in the T&E infrastructure or may itself serve as a surrogate for the system under test. In the former case, the simulation environment is not generally considered a first class entity in the program; as such, insufficient attention and resources are often applied to the design and implementation of the simulation environment. In the latter case, the simulation environment is a first class entity subjected to formal scrutiny, and therefore dependent on rigorous execution of simulation systems engineering and T&E acceptance processes. Either case is too often reflected in poor alignment of program-level systems engineering processes with the federation-level systems engineering processes, i.e. the DSEEP.

Performance Period: The proposed period for this study group is one year and is scheduled to begin immediately upon approval of the TOR (no later than the 2010 Fall SIW).

Goals of the TEO-DSEEP:

1. Solicit community input to the preliminary overlay developed by the primary proponents
2. Determine the desirability and feasibility of establishing a PDG to standardize TEO-DSEEP

Tasks:

1. Perform community survey and research to collect additional inputs to the preliminary overlay.
2. Draft an updated TEO-DSEEP based on the inputs from step 1.
3. Determine the desirability and feasibility of establishing a PDG to standardize TEO-DSEEP.
4. Prepare a final report with the updated draft TEO-DSEEP.
5. Prepare a PN or PAR depending on the outcome of task 3.
6. Provide support to related SISO Study Groups (SGs) and Product Development Groups (PDGs).
7. Become and remain cognizant of other organizational efforts to research and address M&S systems engineering practices and make every possible effort to make contact with such organizations for the purpose of expressing interest in their efforts and findings, potential collaborations, and in sharing the findings of the efforts of this study group.
8. Provide to the SAC an annual report by 1 September detailing the progress and activities from the previous year and the goals for the following year.

Products:
The products of the study group will be:

1. Final Report
2. PN or PAR for each standard depending on the outcome of task 3.