Tailoring to the Acquisition Test and Evaluation Process: Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future

Abstract

In learning from the past, we see how the need to conserve resources caused the bomber T and E community, for example, to tailor the acquisition process to use combined testingconcepts1. Combined Testing is where each T and E stakeholder shares test planning and execution opportunities to collect data rather than each stakeholder conducting independent events. We also learn that changing mission needs and an acknowledgement that more flexibility was needed to accommodate inevitable changes that impacted software-intensive systems, particularly those that were heavily reliant on Commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) and Non-developmental Items (NDI), resulted in the Command and Control(C2) mission area adopting Evolutionary Acquisition2 approaches.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1137501

Entities

People

  • Diane P. Hanf

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Best Practices
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Corporations
  • Department Of Defense
  • Developmental Tests
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • Life Cycles
  • Military Acquisition
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

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