Modeling and Simulation in Support of Testing and Evaluation

Abstract

Testing and Evaluating are key to the successful development of an acquisition program. Operational Testing during the development phases of the acquisition process is the most difficult to accomplish. This is so because it requires that a system be nearly complete before you can conduct testing. Computer Modeling and Simulation of a proposed program is one way to achieve early operational test requirements. In this project, I will show how modeling and simulations support test and evaluation. At the conclusion of this paper, I will have given the reader the following: 1) an explanation of how similar programs can benefit from modeling and simulation, 2) an explanation of the current methods of validating models, 3) a discussion on why we should standardize validation methods, and 4) an explanation of how to standardize validation methods.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1997
Accession Number
ADA397905

Entities

People

  • Tony F. Hodge

Organizations

  • Air Command and Staff College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Anti-Tank Missiles
  • Climate Change
  • Computer Science
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Experimental Design
  • Manufacturing
  • Prototypes
  • Simulations
  • Standards
  • Systems Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities
  • Validation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Theoretical Analysis.