As the Army moves away from a fragmented approach to development, leaders want to bring multiple systems together. In a perfect world, everything would be interoperable, but to get there, engineers need to start with an interoperable development environment.
“The Army does very well in fielding programs on a case-by-case basis, but as it moves toward a system-of-systems construction, it doesn’t have the ability to test in that way,” said Sherri Bystrowski, acting director, Army Common Operating Environment (COE).
A new testing methodology known as the Federated Integration Environment, or FIE, aims to close that gap.