Development of an Ontology-Based Tool to Support the Test and Evaluation Process for Rapid Acquisition of IED Detection Capabilities

摘要

An adaptable adversary with a 30-day innovation cycle has driven the demand for a rapid acquisition process that compresses the current acquisition cycle. We describe the development of a tool for the Test and Evaluation (T&E) community to enable consistent and objective application of threat intelligence to a subset of the rapid acquisition enterprise: Counter- Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) sensor testing. Currently there is no single standard common to all T&E entities regarding development and application of threat phenomena to CIED sensor testing, which results in T&E products that do not readily support the direct comparison of system performance. A tool is needed to engage the T&E community to define and automate best practices to enable a consistent application of threat phenomena. The Joint IED Defeat Test Board is developing a Common IED Exploitation Target Set (CIEDETS), an ontology-based decision support tool that provides consistent, repeatable application of operationally realistic threat information to C-IED sensor T&E efforts. The goal is to implement a documented methodology for the development of surrogate threat 'observables' applicable to the full spectrum of C-IED sensor T&E scenarios. This article overviews the CIEDETS technology and describes how CIEDETS could be utilized for individual system evaluation and to augment the system-of- systems evaluation of an integrated aerial Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) Task Force. The U.S. Department of Defense Counter- Improvised Explosive Device (CIED) community has compiled an extensive inventory of data on IED threat signatures and tactics. Currently this inventory consists of various independent data sets.