A significant shortfall in current NetCentric Test and Evaluation (T&E) capabilities is the ability to properly meter and assess the end-to-end effectiveness of Joint and Air Force Mission Tactical Services (MTS) based missions. Tactical missions may be based in part or totally on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) services (e.g., WS, REST, Data Delivery Service (DDS)). Programs of Record (PORs) are embracing SOAs in all facets of 21~(st) Century Warfare as an effective way to leverage the power of the Global Information Grid (GIG). Current open architecture/standards conformance and compliance testing tools are insufficient to fully evaluate the overall performance of services based missions. Warfighters are reluctant to fully embrace MTS, without confidence that required end-to-end performance (e.g., Service Level Agreements (SLAs)) is achieved and maintained. A new T&E methodology is needed to meter end-to-end effectiveness of tactical missions and visualize this metric on a near real time basis.
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