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 provides travel funds for T&E/S&T program oversight, special studies, analyses, and strategic planning related to test capabilities and infrastructure. The DoD established seven strategic science and technology (S&T) investment priorities: 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 aligned and prioritized 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.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Source ID
0603941D8Z_3_0400_PB_2015
Change Summary Explanation
• Strategic efficiency reductions in management headquarters funding and staffing for better alignment and to provide support to a smaller military force.
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Cross Domain
  • Data Acquisition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directed Energy Weapons
  • Global Positioning Systems
  • Guidance
  • Measurement
  • Reliability
  • Supersonic Combustion Ramjet Engines
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Test Methods
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Microelectronics

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