This page provides links to DoD policy related to developmental test and evaluation, energy, and modeling and simulation. Policy related to safety in acquisition is found on the Acquisition and Technology Programs Task Force (ATP TF) website, sponsored by the Defense Safety Oversight Council. Additional policy regarding systems and software engineering is available on the SSE policy page.

• Developmental Test and Evaluation (DTE)
  • OSD Memorandum, Policy for Assessing Technical Risk of Entry into Initial Operational Test and Evaluation [PDF, 46KB]
    May 21, 2007
  • OSD Memorandum, Test and Evaluation Policy Revisions [PDF, 706KB]
    December 22, 2007
  • OSD Memorandum, Reliability Improvement Working Group [PDF, 35KB]
    February 15, 2008
  • OSD Memorandum, Definition of Integrated Testing[PDF, 49KB]
    April 25, 2008
  • OUSD(AT&L) Memorandum, Prototyping and Competition [PDF, 88KB]
    September 19, 2007
  • OUSD(AT&L) Memorandum, Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Policy [PDF, 73KB]
    July 21, 2008
  • DoD Directive 3200.11, Major Range and Test Facility Base (MRTFB)
    December 27, 2007
  • DoD Directive 5105.71, Department of Defense Test Resource Management Center (TRMC)
    March 8, 2004
  • Department of Defense 5000 Series
• Energy
  • OUSD(AT&L) Memorandum, Fully Burdened Cost of Fuel Pilot Program [PDF, 46KB]
    April 10, 2007
• Modeling and Simulation (M&S
  • DoD Directive 5000.59, DoD Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Management
    August 8, 2007
  • DoD Instruction 5000.61, DoD Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Verification, Validation, and Accreditation (VV&A)
    May 13, 2003