Starship II is an advanced software application that provides Command and Control (C2) for distributed test or exercise environments. The Starship II Test Command and Control Suite provides operators the means to monitor and control a widely distributed test infrastructure and help them determine the exercise ground-truth. Starship II and its companion application StarGen are designed to facilitate and automate the C2 functions of test environment planning, computerized test execution, infrastructure health and status monitoring, and reporting. Together they enable a user to verify a test lay down, configure test instruments, initialize a test sequence, synchronize test events, monitor status, and provide an overall means to control test infrastructure resources.

Starship II can exchange information with anything that provides an external control interface capable of reporting status and receiving commands. Within Starship each component of the test environment is referred to as a participant. The architecture enables an operator to construct an environment of distributed test assets including specialized test instrumentation, computer resources, simulations, embedded System Under Test (SUT) devices, and Man-in-the-Loop consoles.

User defined thresholds can be assigned against each participant's reporting attributes to establish color-coded status conditions and announce alerts on specific test events. Visual notifications are generated whenever the user-defined thresholds are met or exceeded.

Starship II enables a user to compose informational views of the distributed environment composed of many participants reporting status and threshold notifications. This test situation information is integrated into temporal, geographical, organizational, and tabular views available in the Starship II Graphical User Interface (GUI) which forms an overview of the distributed test environment called the Common Test Picture (CTP). Using the intercommunications of Starship II, the CTP can be accessed concurrently by all test officers operating a Starship II terminal, regardless of their location, and allow them to be immersed into an exercise as if they were actually present on the test or training range.

Starship is the primary means controlling the various applications that make up the C3Driver (Command Control and Communications Driver). Starship has the diverse applications that make up the C3Driver to be integrated into an integrated one-box solution. The StarGen component of Starship serves at the user’s portal to plan, configure, and execute with the C3Driver. This functionality enables users with minimal training to leverage capabilities that would usually require complex manual configuration.

Starship is also the test control component of InterTEC. It provides automated command and control (C2) of the distributed test environment. It's temporal, geographical, organizational, and tabular views of the status of the test environment enable InterTEC to support an increasing number of Open Air Ranges (OAR), Hardware in the Loop Laboratories (HWIL), and test agency facilities that are connected via a Wide Area Network (WAN). Starship has proven to be a critical component of the InterTEC environment set as a means of verifying that all required assets are online and ready to execute a test case. It has also enabled centrally located subject matter experts to rapidly identify and isolate problems with the configuration of applications within the environment.