Functional Simulation and Data Flow Analysis of the Armament and Military Equipment Testing System

Abstract

The urgency for timely and high-quality provision of the process of testing armaments and military equipment is determined by the constant need to rearm and equip the Armed Forces of Ukraine with advanced specimens of combat equipment, which is one of the components of proper national defence capability. The worsening of this problem in recent years was due to the hybrid aggression of the Russian Federation, which has led to the intensification of the processes for the development of modern military equipment and the acceleration of the army’s rearmament processes. This led to an increase in the flow of technical specimens requiring testing, which in turn led to an increase in the efficiency of mass testing. In addition to other measures, the automation of all information processes accompanying the test can increase the capacity.
 The pre-project phase of the development of an information system to accompany the testing of armament and military equipment is considered in the article. On the basis of the legislative acts in force and normative and methodical documents the functional decomposition of the standard sample test processes to the depth of 3-4 hierarchical levels has been carried out. Functional decomposition of the test system was performed by SADT technology, namely the IDEF0 functional modeling technique. This allowed obtaining a list of data flows circulating in the test system.
 The analysis of information flows is carried out, namely the type of information connection between functions, the need for information support at different stages of the test, the importance of the information resources for the testing phase, the need for information array of scientific, methodological, regulatory data. An assessment was made of the inter-system connectivity of the testing processes, taking into account the type of inter-functional communication.
 It is expected that the introduction of an information tracking system for the testing of armament and military equipment could significantly increase the capacity of the testing organization while ensuring the quality of the results obtained.