T&E is a logical application for Umbra modeling and simulation. The following are a few examples of how Umbra can help T&E.
Complex T&E activities can be planned in advance with Modeling and Simulation to understand how a testbed or range will be utilized. Umbra allows this planning by simulating physical, cyber, and human entities.
Large physical T&E activities can be expensive due to the number of personnel or sets of equipment required at one location. In many cases, it is impractical to collect enough assets in one location to fully exercise a complex scenario. LVC applications allow the test director to select the number of live, virtual, and simulated elements to fit test objectives and budget. Umbra facilitates this type of interaction in real time and Sandia’s evolving LVC methodology can help solve many issues of communication latency and instrumentation needed to pull off an LVC activity.
Large and complex cyber T&E efforts require a breadth of simulation and emulation technologies to bring together desired results. Umbra is an outstanding framework to integrate many of these diverse simulations as well as incorporate essential physical and human behavioral elements. Umbra is used at Sandia for cyber test range activity.
In situations where T&E activity needs to occur in projected or inaccessible locations, Umbra can simulate a remote environment including physical, cyber, and human behavior activity in that location.