Test and Evaluation: Impact of DOD's Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DOD) has proposed that the practices and policies of the Office of the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) be modified to reduce the time and cost of developing and fielding new weapon systems. To help focus deliberations on DOD'S proposal, you asked us to review DOT&E'S operations and organizational structure for overseeing operational testing. Specifically, you asked us to assess (1) DOT&E's efforts and their impact on the quality of operational testing and evaluation in DOD and (2) the strengths and weaknesses of the current organizational framework in DOD for operational testing. As part of our review, we conducted 13 case studies of the testing of individual weapon systems. (Our scope and methodology are described in app. I, and brief descriptions of the 13 weapon systems are provided in app. II.)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 24, 1997
Accession Number
ADA331017

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Superiority Fighters
  • Airborne Warning And Control System
  • Aircraft Equipment
  • Airframes
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Congress
  • Doppler Radar
  • National Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Radar
  • Reliability
  • Short Takeoff Aircraft
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Equipment
  • Test Facilities
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Control

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.