Rigor and Objectivity in T&E

Abstract

The Director of Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) has begun four T&E initiatives. The initiatives are far reaching and will influence the conduct of T&E across the defense establishment. The initiatives begin with support for our forces: "T&E is to help get the capability needed by our fighting forces to them as quickly as possible." The initiatives extend the boundaries for testers to engage in areas not typically the domain of T&E, such as "Review requirements as they are developed to assess whether they are unambiguous, testable, and relevant to accomplishing missions in combat." They promote new methods to improve T&E efficiency and effectiveness, through integrated testing. Finally, they sustain the important past T&E priorities of working with developmental testers to incorporate a reliability growth curve or software failure profile, reliability tests during development, and evaluation of reliability growth and reliability potential during development in the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2010
Accession Number
ADA530382

Entities

People

  • J. M. Gilmore

Organizations

  • Office of the Secretary of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accelerated Testing
  • Acquisition
  • Best Practices
  • Cost Estimates
  • Department Of Defense
  • Developmental Tests
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Capabilities
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Engineering
  • Reliability
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Aerospace Test and Evaluation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design