Operational Testing Performed on Weapons Systems.

Abstract

Operational testing is an integral part of the DoD weapon system acquisition process. Operational testing evaluates weapon systems under conditions as realistic as possible to determine the system's operational effectiveness and suitability for combat. The overall audit objective was to determine whether the policies and procedures implemented by the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, resulted in operational test plans that ensured the realistic portrayal of threat forces; the realism of test operation environments; the accuracy of the reporting by Military Departments' test agencies; and the accuracy of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, reports to Congress. We also evaluated the adequacy of the test agencies' management controls as they apply to the overall audit objective.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 06, 1996
Accession Number
ADA371407

Entities

People

  • Donald E. Reed
  • Louis F. Schleuger
  • Patricia A. Brannin
  • Raymond A. Spencer
  • Richard L. Collier

Organizations

  • Office of the Inspector General, U.S. Department of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Airframes
  • Anti-Radiation Missiles
  • Command And Control
  • Control Systems
  • Electronic Countermeasures
  • Financial Management
  • Fire Control Systems
  • Fixed Wing Aircraft
  • Naval Operations
  • Operations Research
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Warfare
  • Weapon Control

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting