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 keep pace with evolving weapons technologies. Aligned with the National Defense Strategy, 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, building a more lethal force. 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 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, and industry to accelerate development of new test capabilities. The program outreaches and engages academia to address test technology challenges in DoD testing, advancing Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) initiatives at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and other minority serving institutions. 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 T&E/S&T Program aligns with the science and technology (S&T) Communities of Interest (COI) to prepare the T&E community to test warfighting capabilities that emerge from priority S&T 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, 2020
• Source ID: 0603941D8Z_3_0400_PB_2020
• Change Summary Explanation: FY2018: Congressional add of +$22M provided in Division C (Defense Appropriations) of the FY 2018 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 115-141) accommodates a program increase, to include funding for additive manufacturing. All additional funds included in Project 091, High Speed Systems Test. FY2019: Congressional add of +$21M provided in Department of Defense Appropriation Bill (P.L. 115-245) accommodates a program increase, to include funding for additive manufacturing of hypersonic affordability (+$5M) and advanced technology development (+$16M). All additional funds included in Project 091, High Speed System Test. FY 2020: Programmatic change of +$78M included in Project 091, High Speed Test (Hypersonics).
• Service Agency Name: Office of the Secretary Of Defense

Entities

Organizations

• Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• C4I
• Cyber
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Human Systems
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Air Force
• Aircrafts
• Artificial Intelligence
• Boundary Layer
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Control Systems
• Cross Domain
• Directed Energy Weapons
• Electronically Scanned Array
• Global Positioning Systems
• Hypersonic Vehicles
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Facilities
• Unmanned Aerial Systems
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Systems
• Warning Systems

Readers

• Defense Technology Research and Development.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Software Engineering