DOT&E Leaders Speak Out About Past and Future Challenges and Priorities

Abstract

On February 18, 2009, ITEA sponsored a workshop on "Future Defense Spending and the Implications for Test and Evaluation," to focus on the impact of the economic downturn and the change of administration on Defense system acquisitions and test and evaluation (T&E). The final panel of the day featured the Department of Defense's senior T&E leadership, past and present (Phil Coyle, Jack Krings, Tom Christie, and Chuck McQueary). The four Directors of Operational Test and Evaluation answered 13 questions. Their answers offer insight into defense leadership processes and T&E considerations that we rarely have the opportunity to see in such a comprehensive manner, offer important insights into challenges the defense T&E community has faced, and may portend the nature of challenges that lay ahead.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA513981

Entities

People

  • Ernest Seglie

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Complex Systems
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Homeland Security
  • Information Operations
  • Information Systems
  • Law
  • National Security
  • Public Relations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Facilities

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Economics