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DEFINITION
The primary purpose of T&E is to support systems development and acquisition.
GENERAL INFORMATION/NARRATIVE
The TEMP is updated to reflect the ILS test objectives, issues, and criteria in test plans, LD, and test evaluation reports. Critical supportability-related T&E activities delineated in the test and evaluation master plan (TEMP) provide another potential source for exit criteria. Satisfactory completion of any critical tests or evaluations needed to ensure the system can be sustained within cost, schedule, performance, and supportability constraints may be identified as exit Criteria
Army T&E provides information for identifying/resolving technical/logistical issues and ensuring acquisition of effective, suitable, and survivable systems. Army T&E programs will be structured to integrate all T&E activities as an efficient continuum that obtains necessary, validated data from many sources. Maximum use should be made of modeling and simulation. The major classes of system acquisition T&E (DT, OT and FT&E) are summarized below. Independent system evaluation and assessment provide unbiased advice of system development to the Army or DOD decision-maker. The system evaluator is organizationally separated from the MATDEV and CBTDEV.
Development Test (DT). DT will be conducted to assess achievement of critical technical parameters, identify technological and design risks, and determine readiness to proceed to the OT.
-Pre-Full Rate Production DT: Pre –Full Rate Production DT includes: Research
effort or testing; Technical feasibility testing; Engineering development testing Production prove-out testing; Production Qualification Testing; Software development testing; Live fire testing; C4I/IT interoperability certification testing and Logistics Demonstrations.
-Post-FRP DT: Post-FRP DT includes: Production verification testing; First article testing; Comparison testing; Live Fire testing; Quality conformance (acceptance) inspections; Tests in support of post-deployment software support;C4I/IT interoperability recertification testing; Surveillance testing; and Reconditioning testing.
-Operational Test (OT). Operational Testing will be conducted to provide data for
system evaluations and/or system assessments, with the Initial OT being conducted to determine operational effectiveness, suitability, and survivability, interoperability, and RAM/supportability of the system under realistic conditions.
-Pre-Full Rate Production OT (Early User Test (EUT)
-Limited User Test (LUT);
-IOT
-Post-FRP OT (Follow-on Operational Test (FOT), User Acceptance Test (UAT);
-As required OT: (a) Customer Test (CT); (b) Supplemental Site Test (SST) for C4I/IT systems;
-Force Development test/experimentation (FDT/E). A TRADOC test and experimentation program supporting its force development processes by examining the effectiveness of existing or proposed concepts or products of doctrine, training, leader developments, organization, and soldier developments (DOTLPF). FDT/E may be used for either stand-alone or for DOTLPF efforts supporting a system acquisition program. In support of system acquisition programs, FDT/E may be stand-alone, related to, or combined with OT and should be identified in the TEMP.
POLICIES, DIRECTIVES, REGULATIONS, LAWS
AR 70–1, AR 71–3, AR 700–127, DA Pam 71–3 and DoDI 5000.2.
BEST PRACTICES, LESSONS LEARNED, STORIES, GUIDES, HANDBOOKS, TEMPLATES, EXAMPLES, TOOLS
Required for: Test and evaluation is required for the assessment of risks, evaluating operational effectiveness and suitability, ensuring the system meets required technical performance characteristics, and evaluating specific logistic support criteria. The TEMP is required at each MDR for each acquisition phase.When required: Test plans and results must be provided at each MDR during the system acquisition process.
COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE
TRAINING RESOURCES
The MATDEV is responsible for technical (development) testing. The CBTDEV is responsible for user (operational) testing.
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