Chemical and Biological Defense Test and Evaluation-A Hallmark of Integrating DT and OT

Abstract

The most operationally realistic testing of chemical and biological defense systems uses actual biological and chemical warfare agent; however, testing live or actual agents is restricted to laboratory containment chambers, which are operationally unrealistic environments. This state of affairs has driven the chemical and biological defense community to integrate developmental testing (DT) and operational testing (OT) to support the evaluation process. Three paradigms are commonly used to integrate chemical and biological defense DT and OT. They are (a) conducting DT with systems before and after OT, (b) developing agent simulant relationships in DT, which are then applied to OT data, and (c) modeling and simulation. This article supplies chemical and biological defense system examples for each paradigm.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA514022

Entities

People

  • Charlie Holman
  • Robert L. Berkowitz

Organizations

  • United States Army Test and Evaluation Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biological Detection
  • Biological Warfare
  • Biological Warfare Agents
  • Chemical Agent Detection
  • Chemical Agent Detectors
  • Chemical Detectors
  • Chemical Warfare
  • Chemical Warfare Agents
  • Defense Systems
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Environment
  • Performance Tests
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare
  • Warning Systems

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  • Systems Analysis and Design