Breaking the Ice. Test and Training Integration: The New Partnership.

Abstract

World events in recent years have precipitated a string of major changes within the Department of Defense (DoD). The end of the Cold War caused us to re-think and revise our defense strategy which in turn led to major DoD downsizing. Our armed forces were reduced, military bases closed and or re-aligned, and budgets were significantly cut. The ramifications of these changes have already and are continuing to be felt throughout DoD. The coined phase, 'doing more with less' is becoming the reality rather than just a notion. The loss of resources (funding, personnel, and facilities) is having an adverse impact on both the Test & Evaluation (T&E) and training communities across the services. As the DoD budget shrinks so to does the workload of the acquisition infrastructure however, the need to maintain these unique capabilities does not. Similar problems plague the operational forces as well. With the reduced operating funds the operational units have fewer dollars to do business as usual. For instance the Fleet does not have the funding to steam to the traditional training locations as in the past.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 02, 1996
Accession Number
ADA310076

Entities

People

  • Larry Hill

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Buildings And Structures
  • Cold War
  • Commerce
  • Communities
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Infrastructure
  • Lessons Learned
  • National Security
  • Security
  • Task Forces
  • Training
  • Workload

Readers

  • Economics
  • Educational Psychology
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.