The Performance Assessment Department serves as the independent analysis and assessment agent across several warfare areas including Air Defense, Surface, Strike, and Cyber. The department's expertise is utilized across unit level, multi-ship, and Navy strike group compositions. The department has developed key information system capabilities (communications, computing, software, and instrumentation) to perform combat system and missile telemetry data management (DM), on-site data analysis (DA), and off-board worldwide data transfer across brown, green, and blue water environments. The advanced DM and DA capabilities support emerging combat systems, baseline upgrades, and regression testing. As the data repository for Standard Missile and the Aegis Combat System, the department can provide trend assessments as well as historical performance reports. This flexibility and depth provides leadership with indices of combat readiness and identification of performance limiters and drivers across the lifecycle.
Major technical areas covered by the department
- Develops, documents, and implements criteria, procedures, and analysis methodology for assessing performance
- Serves as the Commander, Operational Test and Evaluation Force (COMOPTEVFOR) and Marine Corps Operational Test and Evaluation Activity (MCOTEA) trusted agent to support the assessment of the operational effectiveness and suitability of sensors, command and control, weapons, and combat systems.
- Provides fleet training feedback for pre-deployment certifications and fleet exercises
- Develops, operates, manages, and maintains communication, computing, software, and instrumentation systems required for the collection and distribution of Navy, Joint, Missile Defense Agency, Foreign Military Sales, and coalition warfare system data
- Deploys, operates, and maintains both fixed site and portable telemetry systems globally in support of telemetry data collection
Major Customers
- NAVSEA
- US Fleet Forces
- Missile Defense Agency
- NAVAIR
- MARCORSYSCOM
- Coast Guard