Platform/System Integration and Test

Mandate - The GD Canada System Integration Validation and Verification Organization is your "One Stop Shop" to Integrate, Verify, Validate and Qualify your Products, Vehicles or Systems. System Integration Validation and Verification can provide the tools, the facilities and the expertise necessary to offer a fully independent and self-contained test capability. The Role of the System Integration Validation and Verification team is ensure that all components of the system function correctly in accordance with the design and together in accordance with all pertinent Interface Control Ddocuments. Problems are identified and when rectified, appropriate components and systems are retested to ensure that the complete solution meshes into a seamless product, system or System of Systems.

Personnel Resources - This Test team comprises highly-trained Test Engineers and Test Technologists spanning the spectrum from Junior Technologist to Senior Engineer. A diverse range of skill sets is readily available allowing complete test coverage in areas such as, Bearer Services, Data Networks, System Management and Security, Software and Firmware, Audio/Acoustics/Voice Systems, Environmental, Test Tools, and Test Operations. This team has the expertise to evaluate requirements from concept to final design (requirement definition, analysis, traceability [using DOORS] and conformance). Experience gained from over 10 years of military communications system testing has enabled GD Canada to develop the expertise necessary to design and implement intelligent, responsive, functional or environmental test programs that reflect full life cycle exposure.

Laboratory Resources - The tests can be performed at different stages of the product development life cycle using high-tech facilities for tests tailored from equipment testing to vehicle testing to ultimately testing the system or the complete solution in a laboratory or field environments. Practical configurations and operational simulations make testing realistic and representative of customer environments and usage. Laboratories representing 40 to 60 vehicles and three to four headquarters at various levels have been established for larger scale programs. GD Canada manages the Test Engineering and Integration Facility for the Department of National Defence. Currently, all Land Command Support System components must be qualified at this facility at the System of Systems test level prior to being fielded by the Canadian Army.

Test Processes - GD Canada recently achieved CMMI Level 5 certification and as such our Test Teams employ standardized processes throughout the test program including the test planning, test execution and test reporting phases. This combined with our world-class Configuration Management Team and processes results in continuously reliable and repeatable test results.

Test Tools - The System Integration Validation and Verification group acquires and develops test tools to test and stress your networks: modified sniffers/data loggers to support the customer's specific needs, packet tester (data generation and capture),  BIT error rate tester, automatic logging and automated event driven testing, vibration tables and temperature chambers just to name a few. As well, tools are used to analyze high-level requirements and provide detailed, fully automated, test scripts that ensure both accuracy and repeatability, using Test Case Viewer and SIT32. Through its many years of experience, GD Canada has generated a library of "standard" tests that can be adapted and applied to any piece of equipment.