TENA and JMETC, enabling integrated testing in distributed LVC environments

The Test and Training Enabling Architecture (TENA) Software Development Activity (SDA) is chartered to enable interoperability among ranges, facilities, and simulations in a timely and cost-efficient manner and to foster reuse of range assets and future software systems. To achieve this vision, the TENA SDA has developed and validated a common architecture called TENA, which provides for real-time software system interoperability using the TENA Middleware, as well as interfaces to existing range assets, Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems, and simulations. The TENA Middleware, currently at Release 6.0.1, has been used by the range community for testing, evaluation, and feedback; has been used in many major exercises since 2002 and has been selected for use in the Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) prototyping demonstrations and distributed testing.