INET Deployment at Pax River: Identifying and Mitigating the Disruptions

摘要

Recognizing the inability of current telemetry technology to meet emergent needs within the Major Range and Test Facility Base, the Central Test and Evaluation Investment Program launched the integrated Network Enhanced Telemetry (iNET) Project. iNET is taking a systems engineering approach to defining a new architecture for flight test telemetry. The iNET architecture is the first major change to the underlying architecture of flight test telemetry in over 50 years. Changing an architecture that has been in place this long could have unforeseen impacts. Across Navy ranges, processes, procedures, and systems have characteristics of the traditional telemetry architecture inherent in their design. A careful, defined, and disciplined process is required for assuring that these processes, procedures, and systems are ready to accept iNET technology. As one of the initial deployment sites for iNET, NAVAIR Pax River has conducted a continuous process improvement project to study the potential disruptions and mitigations of deploying this revolutionary and potentially disruptive technology. This article describes the study process, the potential disruptions identified, the results of the risk/failure mode effect analysis, and useful end products developed to facilitate the safe deployment of iNET at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division at Patuxent River, MD.