Developmental Test Technology & Sustainment
Abstract
This program provides critical front-end investments for development of new test methodologies, test standards, advanced test technology concepts for long range requirements, future test capabilities, and advanced instrumentation prototypes for the United States Army Developmental Test Command (DTC), a subordinate command of the Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), which includes: Aberdeen Test Center (ATC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland; White Sands Test Center (WSTC) at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), New Mexico; Electronic Proving Ground (EPG), Fort Huachuca, Arizona; Yuma Test Center (YTC) at Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), Arizona (including the Cold Regions Test Center (CRTC), Fort Greely, Alaska and the Tropic Regions Test Center (TRTC), (at various locations); Redstone Test Center (RTC), Redstone Arsenal and Ft Rucker, Alabama; and West Desert Test Center (WDTC) Dugway Proving Ground (DPG), Utah. These capabilities are required to support developmental testing requirements of high priority Army systems being rapidly fielded to Iraq and Afghanistan, and those systems supporting Army modernization efforts. A key element is sustaining aging instrumentation which maintains existing capabilities at test facilities by replacing unreliable, uneconomical and irreparable instrumentation, as well as incremental upgrades of instrumentation and software, reducing their average age to assure adequate testing capabilities. This project develops and sustains developmental test instrumentation and capabilities that provide the data necessary to support acquisition milestone decisions for all commodity areas throughout the Army. Significant examples include new instrumentation for the testing of body armor and other soldier protective equipment, advanced methods for testing the survivability of ground vehicles and aircraft, refurbishment of kineto-tracking mounts (precise optical instruments used in missile and aviation testing), and an expanded instrumentation suite in support of the growing mission to test Command, Control, Communication and Computer (C4) systems
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2012
- Source ID
- 628_0605602A_6_2040_PB_2012
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