Improving Army Test and Evaluation: A Team Sport

Abstract

This paper focuses on improvement of test and evaluation (T&E), and identifies: the high levels of oversight with regard to T&E, the key players in the acquisition process and their required interactions, the purpose of testing and recent reforms in testing. Seven recommendations are provided to improve test and evaluation, including: allow for greater access to and use of contractor test data, establish adequate testing to confirm requirements, increase accountability among stakeholders, consolidate reviews and eliminate redundancy, improve the requirements process, support risk based testing, and include the T&E community in configuration steering boards.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 2013
Accession Number
ADA589199

Entities

People

  • Michael J. Karwatka

Organizations

  • United States Army War College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accountability
  • Acquisition
  • Army Procurement
  • Base Closures
  • Contractors
  • Defense Planning
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Law
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Students
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Test Methods
  • United States
  • War Colleges

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.