Army Evaluation Center

Abstract

This Project provides the resources to operate the Army Evaluation Center (AEC) which is responsible for all assigned developmental and independent operational evaluation of Army materiel, information and acquisition systems, an inherently government mission. This Project funds direct civilian labor and minimum non-labor requirements to include: Temporary Duty (TDY), personnel training, career development, supplies and equipment, hardware, software, and other external Other Government Agency (OGA) support for the RAM Center for Reliability Growth (CRG) and Underbody Blast Modeling and Simulation (UBM) initiatives. CRG improves reliability by providing policy, guidance, standards, methods, tools, and training resulting in increased materiel/operational availability, and initial operational testing success rates while decreasing support costs and logistics footprint. The UBM initiative identifies vehicle improvements directly impacting Soldier survivability. AEC consists of seven directorates (Aviation-Fires Evaluation Directorate, Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) Evaluation Directorate (funded by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA)), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Evaluation Directorate, Integrated Suitability & Methodology Directorate, Mounted Systems Evaluation Directorate, Soldier & Support System Evaluation Directorate and Survivability Evaluation Directorate) and a headquarters element. AEC receives staff services from the Army Test and Evaluation Command Headquarters (ATEC HQ). The primary competencies of these directorates is to: independently evaluate effectiveness, suitability, survivability; determine if Program Management (PM) and user directed requirements are met; direct the test strategy; and verify system safety.

Document Details

• Document Type: Project
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2018
• Source ID: 302_0605716A_6_2040_PB_2018

Tags

Readers

• Aerospace Test and Evaluation
• Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

• Fully Networked C3
• Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control