Download or read book Air Force Development Test and Evaluation Under Acquisition Reform Six Flight Test Process Concepts written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acquisition Reform changed government involvement in system acquisition with transition to best commercial practices. Shortened acquisition timelines, reduced budgets and increased contractor test responsibilities intensified several issues. These issues are test planning and execution capabilities, joint contractor and government test efficiency, and both government and industry test experience levels. Today's DT & E methods are insufficient to successfully overcome increased system complexity, decreased test budgets, and reduced manpower challenges of the future. To meet these challenges, this project presents six test recommendations which enhance DT & E contributions to the acquisition process. The six recommendations are: (1) Develop a single commercial industry standard governing military aviation testing. (2) Emphasize greater simulation configuration control and technological simulation advances, with software test and avionics integration simulation the highest priorities. (3) Refine the Integrated Test Team Concept to combine contractor, development, and operational test requirements in addition to innovative test program teaming. (4) Streamline development and operational test data requirements and allow contractor and development test personnel to supplement operational test teams. (5) Automate test planning and execution functions to reduce manpower investments. (6) Modify the Federal Aviation Administration Designated Engineering Representative concept to increase contractor test autonomy.

Download or read book Test and evaluation management guide written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Guide for Design Conduct and Analysis of Air Force Tests written by United States. Air Force. Systems Command and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Test and Evaluation Process written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Air Force needs to ensure the weapons systems it uses, and the systems that support them, meet or exceed operational requirements in terms of effectiveness and suitability and are ready for fielding. To do so, the Air Force conducts realistic, cost-effective, and credible test and evaluation (T&E) programs through all phases of the acquisition and fielding process. This directive establishes policies for the T&E process and infrastructure. The Air Force (T&E) process will: Through Developmental Test and Evaluation (DT&E), Qualification Test and Evaluation (QT&E), including Contractor Testing (CT), demonstrate systems feasibility, confirm engineering design and development are complete, minimize design risks, and ensure systems perform as required in their intended environments. DT&E and QT&E results support weapon system life cycle decisions and certification of the system as ready for dedicated Air Force Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E).

Download or read book Force Development Operational Testing and Evaluation Methodology and Procedures Guide written by United States. Department of the Army and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book AFFTC Instruction 99 4 Test and Evaluation Flight Test Center Deficiency Reporting written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This instruction implements technical order (TO) 00-35D-54, USAF Deficiency Reporting and investigating System; Air Force Instruction (AFI) 21-118, Improving Aerospace Equipment Reliability and maintainability; AFI 99-101, Development Test and Evaluation; AFI 99-102, Operational Test and Evaluation; for test activities conducted by the Air Force Flight Test Center. Deficiency reporting on fielded operational aircraft is also addressed. Specific detail and guidance are in the TO. This instruction specifies implementing responsibilities as established by the TO; outlines procedures for document flow, technical review, and validation for all Deficiency Reports (DRs); discusses the Watch Item (WIT) tracking system concept; and specifies the working relationship between development and operational test and evaluation (DT & E/OT & E) teams evaluating weapon systems. This instruction also specifies Center organization responsibilities in addition to those described in the TO.

Download or read book Test Evaluation Management Guide August 2016 written by Department Of Defense and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This PRINT REPLICA contains the 6th edition of the Test & Evaluation Management Guide (TEMG). The Test & Evaluation Management Guide is intended primarily for use in courses at DAU and secondarily as a generic desk reference for program and project management, and Test & Evaluation (T&E) personnel. It is written for current and potential acquisition management personnel and assumes some familiarity with basic terms, definitions, and processes as employed by the DoD acquisition process. The Test & Evaluation Management Guide is designed to assist Government and industry personnel in executing their management responsibilities relative to the T&E support of defense systems and facilitate learning during Defense Acquisition University coursework. The objective of a well-managed T&E program is to provide timely and accurate information to decision makers and program managers (PMs). The Test & Evaluation Management Guide was developed to assist the acquisition community in obtaining a better understanding of who the decision makers are and determining how and when to plan T&E events so that they are efficient and effective. Why buy a book you can download for free? We print this book so you don't have to. First you gotta find a good clean (legible) copy and make sure it's the latest version (not always easy). Some documents found on the web are missing some pages or the image quality is so poor, they are difficult to read. We look over each document carefully and replace poor quality images by going back to the original source document. We proof each document to make sure it's all there - including all changes. If you find a good copy, you could print it using a network printer you share with 100 other people (typically its either out of paper or toner). If it's just a 10-page document, no problem, but if it's 250-pages, you will need to punch 3 holes in all those pages and put it in a 3-ring binder. Takes at least an hour. It's much more cost-effective to just order the latest version from Amazon.com This book includes original commentary which is copyright material. Note that government documents are in the public domain. We print these large documents as a service so you don't have to. The books are compact, tightly-bound, full-size (8 1/2 by 11 inches), with large text and glossy covers. 4th Watch Publishing Co. is a HUBZONE SDVOSB. https: //usgovpub.com

Download or read book Acquisition Management in the U S Air Force and Its Predecessors written by Lawrence R. Benson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2008-05 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its first 50 years as an independent armed service, the U.S. Air Force (USAF) has fostered science & technology & -- in partnership with the private sector -- developed & produced the complex tools of aerospace power that helped the Free World prevail in the Cold War. The foundation for these extraordinary achievements was laid in the 40 years before the USAF separated from the U.S. Army in 1947. This document tells the story of how the air components of the Army & then the USAF organized & managed the activities required to get aircraft & other weapon systems from the drawing board to the flightline or the launch pad. This study is the first overall historical synopsis of the service¿s acquisition structure. Illustrations.

Download or read book Acquisition Management in the United States Air Force and Its Predecessors written by Richard G. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Career in Test and Evaluation Reflections and Observations written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles E. "Pete" Adolph retired as Director of Test and Evaluation in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Acquisition and Technology) on 31 January 1994. This completed more than 30 years of federal service almost all of it within the challenging field of test and evaluation (T & E). Pete-as he was widely known throughout the Department of Defense testing community- enjoyed a remarkable career. It began in the late 1950s, as the heroic era of flight test in the first decade of the jet age was drawing to a close. Pete then played an increasingly prominent role in the transformation of flight testing into a systematic discipline using the latest in information technology to evaluate sophisticated weapon systems. His government career culminated as a senior director at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). There, in the Pentagon. he brought his many years of engineering and management experience in the field to bear upon the formulation of policies for the acquisition and testing of weapon systems in the post-cold-war era. The text that follows began as a series of five oral history interviews conducted in the Office of the Air Force Historian between 29 July 1993 and 15 April 1994. Ms. Pauline Tubbs of the United States Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base (AFB), Alabama, expertly transcribed these interviews from approximately eight hours of audio tape. Mr. Lawrence R. Benson, the Air Force Historian's Assistant for Field Programs (and previously the Director of Research Services at the Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center), organized, revised, and edited the transcript adding explanatory material in brackets or footnotes as appropriate. Mr. Adolph was accompanied at most of the interviews by Mr. Douglas Nation of the 46th Test Wing at Eglin AFB, Florida, who was on a special assignment to the OSD T & E Directorate.

Download or read book Minimizing Development Flight Test Time and Cost in the U S Air Force written by Charles E. Adolph and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flight testing has undergone some major changes in the past 20 years. The largest single technical change, the need to evaluate software-intensive systems, resulted from advances in computer technology. Test management concepts have changed as well. These changes were driven in part by technology and in part by a need for the Air Force to become more involved early in the test process. Today's avionics systems present both a quantum leap in capability and a quantum jump in test requirements. With workload growing both in magnitude and complexity, the challenge is to meet the increased demands cost-effectively and safely. For software-intensive systems, a ground-based simulation dedicated to the support of the flight test program is essential. This paper summarizes today's methods of operation which are geared to minimizing development time and costs. The focus of this process is on productivity--doing the right testing in the proper sequence in the most efficient and safest possible manner.

Download or read book Armament Munitions Test Process Direction and Methodology for Testing Air Force Manual 99 104 written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Program offices, operating commands, and test organizations have been directed by the Chief of Staff, Air Force (CSAF), to employ a disciplined test process throughout all phases of an armament/munitions life cycle. This process applies to all testing including developmental, operational, and combined testing. The purpose of this document is to describe a disciplined process, called the Armament/Munitions Test & Evaluation (T & E) Process, and provide guidelines for its application during the systems acquisition process and throughout the life of the system. This document supplements Air Force Instruction (AFI) 99-103, Test and Evaluation, AIR FORCE TEST PROCESS, which directs the use of the process. The objective of the Armament/Munitions T & E Process is to standardize the testing and evaluation process for armament/munitions. Success of the test program is greatly increased with a standardized and structured T & E process based on a scientific approach. The Armament/Munitions T & E Process is applicable through all phases of the acquisition process; concept exploration/definition through operations and support. This process will provide a T & E audit trail through the acquisition process in addition to early identification of test asset requirements. This manual implements AFI 99-103, Air Force Test and Evaluation Process, for Armament/Munitions Test and Evaluation. It provides a methodology for use by program managers, test managers, test engineers, test organization personnel, major command headquarters staff, and others regardless of command level, involved in Armament/Munitions Test and Evaluation. Non-use of the process described in this manual shall be by exception only and requires written approval by the Director, Test and Evaluation, Headquarter United States Air Force (HQ USAF/TE).

Download or read book Examination of the U S Air Force s Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-11-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ability of the United States Air Force (USAF) to keep its aircraft operating at an acceptable operational tempo, in wartime and in peacetime, has been important to the Air Force since its inception. This is a much larger issue for the Air Force today, having effectively been at war for 20 years, with its aircraft becoming increasingly more expensive to operate and maintain and with military budgets certain to further decrease. The enormously complex Air Force weapon system sustainment enterprise is currently constrained on many sides by laws, policies, regulations and procedures, relationships, and organizational issues emanating from Congress, the Department of Defense (DoD), and the Air Force itself. Against the back-drop of these stark realities, the Air Force requested the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academies, under the auspices of the Air Force Studies Board to conduct and in-depth assessment of current and future Air Force weapon system sustainment initiatives and recommended future courses of action for consideration by the Air Force. Examination of the U.S. Air Force's Aircraft Sustainment Needs in the Future and Its Strategy to Meet Those Needs addresses the following topics: Assess current sustainment investments, infrastructure, and processes for adequacy in sustaining aging legacy systems and their support equipment. Determine if any modifications in policy are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations for changes in Air Force regulations, policies, and strategies to accomplish the sustainment goals of the Air Force. Determine if any modifications in technology efforts are required and, if so, identify them and make recommendations regarding the technology efforts that should be pursued because they could make positive impacts on the sustainment of the current and future systems and equipment of the Air Force. Determine if the Air Logistics Centers have the necessary resources (funding, manpower, skill sets, and technologies) and are equipped and organized to sustain legacy systems and equipment and the Air Force of tomorrow. Identify and make recommendations regarding incorporating sustainability into future aircraft designs.

Download or read book USAF Test Enterprise written by Kevin Madrigal and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The United States Air Force test and evaluation enterprise is increasingly unable to meet test requirements of the acquisition system. The increase in test requirements coupled with limited test sortie generation capability results in increases to a program’s schedule and cost. The enterprise is only equipped to make changes to test planning and conduct to curtail the disparity between demand and test capacity. This paper recommends three changes to the test enterprise to facilitate changes that will adapt to the mission of today and challenges of tomorrow. First, the test community should adapt a more flexible test methodology; facilitating greater agility. Hybrid Assessment Technique (HAT) increases the agility of the test and evaluation enterprise by combining the strengths of Design of Experiments with subjective assessment. The HAT methodology will provide needed speed and flexibility to tailor test plans as data is collected and analyzed. Active use of HAT would result in more effective and rapid testing and provide added capacity to better develop tests for emerging fifth-generation systems. Second, the test enterprise could also gain agility by placing a greater emphasis on integrating test efforts as directed by DoD and service guidance. Frontloading deliberate integrated planning for integrated testing by both operational and developmental test team members will pay larger dividends downstream. A fully-integrated test schedule would provide benefits to the acquisition schedule due to sharing and inclusion of all collected test data points and through testing in an operational environment. An inclusive effort will nominally begin following the determination of safety and stability by traditional developmental test activity. Integrating developmental and operational testing statistically increases the probability of early discovery of issues; increases the effectiveness of the test effort. Third, the test and evaluation enterprise would reap benefits through a wholesale reorganization. In its current instantiation, far too many fragmented and independent organizations, spanning multiple major commands and direct reporting units comprise the test and evaluation enterprise. The fragmentation impedes collaboration and integration due to bureaucratic differences. These differences are difficult to overcome due to a lack of unity of command. Both the United States Navy and Army test and evaluation enterprises consist of far more centralized command structure when compared to that of the Air Force."--Abstract.

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Download or read book Operational Test and Evaluation Handbook for Aircrew Training Devices Volume I Planning and Management written by Thomas H. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook, comprised of three volumes, is intended to provide guidelines and procedures appropriate for Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation (OT/E) personnel to use in planning, conducting, and reporting the results of simulator assessment efforts. Although of value of all test personnel, it is primarily for the typical novice test manager/director-a person who has subject matter expertise (e.g., a qualified pilot or operator), but who may have little or no previous OT/E experience. The handbook provides detailed coverage on OT/E planning and management, with special emphasis on measuring device operational effectiveness and suitability. In accord with its objectives, the handbook was prepared to serve as a supplement to Air Force Manual 55-43, 'Management of Operational Test and Evaluation', by providing those specific additional evaluation concepts and techniques necessary for aircrew training device (ATD) test and evaluation. Volume I is concerned, first with describing both general and specific ATD OT/E planning and management considerations and links those events which occur early in the ATD acquisition process to later ATD OT/E planning and management activities. It defines the various evaluation concepts germane to understanding ATD OT/E, and describes the two major ATD OT/E activities--Initial/Qualification OT/E and Follow-on OT/E; matters of ATD value and worth to the Air Force. The acquisition and life cycle costs associated with modern ATDs make such concerns important.