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Colonel Mike Zarbo

Project Manager for Instrumentation, Targets and Threat Simulators

13 September 2011

Excellence In Training

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Developers Vendors Manufacturers End Users Soldiers Sailors Airmen Marines Requirements Needs

Acquire Training Capabilities Live Training Virtual Training Constructive Training

PM Training Devices PM Combined Arms Tactical Trainers PM Constructive Simulation

Acquire Test and Evaluation Capabilities

PM Instrumentation, Targets and Threat Simulators (PM ITTS)

Sustainment and Field Services

PM Field Operations

Unique Collaboration

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Leading Military Simulation Commands UCF and Others from Academia NCS & 140+ Industry Leading Businesses

Team

Local State Federal

Orlando

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Prepare the force, Secure the future

• A common platform and instructor station

able to support multiple driver cabs.

• Can be either a geo-typical or geo-

specific terrain database that supports multiple driving environments.

• On-board scenario editing function to

develop additional training scenarios at the unit / institution level.

COMMON DRIVER TRAINING

ENGAGEMENT SKILLS TRAINER 2000

MSTCs teach both medics and non-medical personnel to be a Soldier first and a Medic

• second. It is used to conduct standardized,

Combat Life-Saver (CLS) training for non– medical personnel and Combat Medic Advanced Skills Training. 23 centers fielded around the world, including Kuwait and Afghanistan.

Medical Simulation Training Center

Trained or validated 309,604 US and Allied Forces prior to Deployment into Multiple Theaters of Operation in the past 5 years

MEDICAL SIMULATION TRAINING CENTERS (MSTC)

Threat Systems Management Office (Huntsville, AL) Brian Hill Acting Director 18 programs Instrumentation Management Office (Orlando, FL) Russ Longenbach Director 19 programs Vacant Administrative Asst

COL Mike Zarbo Project Manager

Business Team

Leeza Jordan, Bus Mgr Li McCombs, Proj Mgmt Spec Mary Jo Hill, Mgmt Analyst Rose Phillips, Program Analyst Maritza Maloney, Budget Analyst Jo Watson, Budget Analyst Sara Creely, Proj Coordinator 2 Cindy Brandl, Proj Coordinator

Jerry Sirmans Deputy PM

Beth Hinds Administrative Asst Targets Management Office (Huntsville, AL) Alvin Brown Director 15 programs Technical Team

Tim Vaught, Sr. APM Cisca Vuong, Chief Engineer Sharmila Vaswani, IAM

• Geographically Dispersed Management Offices (MO)
• PM Headquarters and Instrumentation Management Office (IMO) located in

Orlando, FL

• Targets and Threat Systems Management Offices (TMO and TSMO) at Redstone

Arsenal, Huntsville, AL

• 67 Locations
• IMO: 13
• TMO: 44
• TSMO: 10
• 52 Active Programs
• IMO: 19
• TMO: 15
• TSMO: 18
• Sources of funding
• DA Direct Mission Funding (9 POM lines - RDTE, OPA, MIPA, OMA)
• Execute Assigned OSD Programs Funded from CTEIP, REP, TSWG, T&E/S&T,

TMI, and JMETC

• Over 50 Customers
• Foreign Military Sales

PM ITTS at a Glance

Program Description Recent Milestones or Events Issues

• RDT&E program to replace antiquated radars at

four of Army Test and Evaluation Command’s Test Centers (Aberdeen, Redstone, White Sands, and Yuma) with a significantly improved, integrated instrumentation suite of Fly-Out and Close-In radars.

• Program being executed by Program Executive

Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation, Orlando, FL.

• 26 May 11: Milestone B approval
• 20 Jun 11: Request for Proposals issued
• 10 Aug 11: Initiated Proposal Evaluations
• Continue working with Deputy Under

Secretary of the Army for Test and Evaluation (DUSA-TE) on the Program Objective Memorandum for Other Procurement Army (OPA) funding for Fiscal Years 2018-2021.

TCRD approved MS B Approval Task 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Analysis of Alt. RFP

• Prop. Eval

Contract Award EMD FAT

Instrumentation Management Office

• Advanced Range Tracking and Imaging System (ARTIS)
• Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS)
• Directed Energy Test and Evaluation Capability (DETEC)
• Range Radar Replacement Program (RRRP)
• Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3)
• Network Integration Event (NIE) support
• Joint Urban Test Capability (JUTC)
• Digital Network Migration (DNM)
• Starship II

Targets Management Office

• Towed Targets
• Rotary Wing (RW)
• Precision Target Signatures (PTS)
• High Speed Aerial Targets (HSAT)
• Aerial Target Flight Services (ATFS)
• Air Defense Artillery (ADA) Targetry
• Target Tracking Control System (TTCS)
• Threat Communications Capability (TCC)
• 21st Century Target Control System (TCS)
• OPFOR Threat Vehicle Company (OTVC)
• Mobile Ground Targets Hardware (MGT-H)
• Mobile Ground Targets Operations (MGT-O)
• Unmanned Aircraft System – Target (UAS-T)

Threat Systems Management Office

• SA-6
• CICADA
• Threat Unmanned Devices (TUD)
• Network Exploitation Test Tool (NETT)
• Threat Signals Injection Jammer (TSIJ)
• Network Integration Event (NIE) support
• Networked Electronic Support Sensors (NESTS)
• Wideband Configurable Controlled Jammer (WCCJ)
• Threat Intelligence Electronic Warfare Environment (TIEW-ENV)
• Mobile Commercial Network Infrastructure Test Range (MCNITR)

• Dynamic organization executing a unique mission.
• Only Army Project Manager aligned with the Test

Community.

• Multiple programs spanning the boundaries of the

acquisition lifecycle model.

• Supporting Theater and the Network Integration Events.
• Keeping pace with the Army’s Testing requirements in

FSO.

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