Test and Evaluation/Science and Technology
Abstract
The Test and Evaluation/Science and Technology (T&E/S&T) program seeks out and develops test technologies to stay in pace with evolving weapons technologies. This program is critical to ensure that the Department of Defense (DoD) has the ability to adequately test the advanced systems that will be fielded in the future. To meet this objective, the T&E/S&T program performs the following activities: • Exploits new technologies and processes to meet important test and evaluation (T&E) requirements. • Expedites the transition of new technologies from the laboratory environment to the T&E community. • Leverages industry advances in equipment, modeling and simulation, and networking to support T&E. Additionally, the T&E/S&T program examines emerging T&E requirements resulting from Joint Service initiatives to identify T&E technology needs and to develop a long-range roadmap for technology insertion. The program leverages and employs applicable applied research efforts from the highly developed technology base in DoD laboratories and test centers, other government agencies, industry, and academia to accelerate development of new test capabilities. This program element also provides travel funds for T&E/S&T program oversight, special studies, analyses, and strategic planning related to test capabilities and infrastructure. The Secretary of Defense, in a memorandum dated April 19, 2011, established seven strategic science and technology (S&T) investment priorities for fiscal years 2013-2017, specifically 1) Data to Decisions, 2) Engineered Resilient Systems, 3) Cyber Science and Technology, 4) Electronic Warfare/Electronic Protection, 5) Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction, 6) Autonomy, and 7) Human Systems. The T&E/S&T Program has been re-aligned and reprioritized to prepare the T&E community to test warfighting capabilities that emerge from these S&T priority investments. The T&E/S&T program is funded within the Advanced Technology Development Budget Activity because it develops and demonstrates high payoff technologies for current and future DoD test capabilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- R2 Budgetary Justification
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2013
- Source ID
- 0603941D8Z_3_0400_PB_2013
- Change Summary Explanation
- Service Agency Name
- Office of Secretary Of Defense
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