Operational Testing. Control versus Realism - Lessons Learned from the OSD Reserve Component Study,

Abstract

In the developmental cycle of hardware and deployment concepts, testing in a operational or tactical situation must typically precede acceptance. When a high degree of tactical realism must be incorporated into testing plans, the rigor and controls associated with the data collection methodologies of other testing stages in a developmental life cycle are occasionally sacrificed in favor of increasingly subjective judgments in troop test paradigms. This paper describes one solution to the problem of enhancing the reproducibility and objectivity of data collected under such a situation.

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1973
Accession Number
ADP000634

Entities

People

  • John R. Chiorini
  • Thomas A. Wilson Ii

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Applied Mathematics
  • Army Operations
  • Cycles
  • Deployment
  • Interdisciplinary Science
  • Judgment
  • Lessons Learned
  • Life Cycles
  • Mathematics
  • Operations Research
  • Reproducibility
  • Systems Science
  • Test Methods

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