Download or read book Testing in a Joint Environment 2004 2008 Findings Conclusions and Recommendations from the Joint Test and Evaluation Methodology Project written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Office of the Secretary of Defense chartered the Joint Test and Evaluation Methodology project to institutionalize testing in a joint environment. The project has now finished most of its major activities. In this article we describe our key accomplishments, findings, conclusions, and recommendations. Testing in a Joint Environment refers to tests of military systems as participating elements in overarching joint systems of systems. The concept first appeared in Strategic Planning Guidance and was formally introduced as Department of Defense policy in a roadmap signed by the Deputy Secretary in 2004. Several working groups were formed to implement the roadmap. The Joint Test and Evaluation Methodology project was initiated in 2005 to continue efforts of the methods and processes working group. Throughout the past three years we have developed, tested, and evaluated a number of methods and processes for defining and using a distributed live, virtual, and constructive joint test environment to evaluate system performance and joint mission effectiveness. We briefly describe those processes, what we learned by testing them, and the extent to which they improve the ability to conduct tests, across the acquisition life cycle, in realistic joint mission environments. We also describe the results of two large-scale distributed tests -- INTEGRAL FIRE 07 and Joint Battlespace Dynamic Deconfliction 08 -- which used mixes of live, virtual, and constructive elements to test a number of systems in joint environments. Several challenges remain, and we make recommendations to continue progress toward the goals of testing in a joint environment. The Department's long-term strategy calls for evaluations of joint system effectiveness throughout all phases of all weapon systems' development and deployment.
Download or read book Joint Test and Evaluation Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Test and Evaluation (JT & E) program originated in response to the 1970 Blue Ribbon Defense Panel Report. The panel report concluded that 'There has been, and is currently, no effective means for conducting productive joint operations tests and evaluations. The fact that some such efforts heretofore have encountered difficulties and achieved few useful results does not obviate the requirements for much needed joint operational test and evaluation (OT & E).' The report recommended that continuing responsibility for joint testing be vested in an Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) staff element dedicated to test and evaluation (T & E). While the original emphasis was on joint operational T & E, evolving multi-Service needs and issues have led to an expansion of the effort to include joint developmental and operational T & Es. The JT & E program is directed by the Director, Test, Systems Engineering and Evaluation (D, T, SE & E). The purpose of a JT & E is to accomplish one or more of the following: Assess the interoperability of Service systems in joint operations and explore potential solutions to identified problems; Evaluate and provide recommendations for improvements in joint technical and operational concepts; Develop and validate system development and testing methodologies having multi-Service application; and Evaluate technical and operational performance of systems under realistic joint operational conditions.
Download or read book Results of Distributed Tests With Integrated Live Virtual Constructive Elements The Road to Testing in a Joint Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The phrase "testing in a joint environment" refers to testing military weapons and supporting systems in the joint mission environments in which those weapons and systems are expected to operate. The Office of the Secretary of Defense chartered the Joint Test and Evaluation Methodology project to institutionalize testing in a joint environment by improving the ability to conduct tests, across the acquisition life cycle, in realistic joint mission environments. Specifically, the project was directed to develop methods and processes for using distributed live-virtual-constructive joint test environments to evaluate system performance and joint mission effectiveness. In 2007, the project completed a series of such tests to assess an initial set of methods and processes. Tests of network-enabled air-to-surface weapons and ground-launched surface-to-surface precision attack missiles were used to provide context for system performance evaluations. Joint mission effectiveness was evaluated by conducting Joint Fires and Joint Close Air Support with the above weapons and other supporting systems. These tests were accomplished as part of the 2007 INTEGRAL FIRE event sponsored by the Air Force Integrated Collaborative Environment program. This article describes results after methods and processes for testing in a joint environment were used by experienced testers to design and assemble an actual distributed joint test environment. Results identified improvements to the processes as well as recommendations for test organizations. To streamline routine test planning for distributed testing, we recommend test organizations consider procedures such that each acquisition program has a lead test organization designated for distributed testing. We also recommend that test organizations consider establishing formal relationships to manage the distributed test environment as a single facility.
Download or read book Joint Test Evaluation Annual Report written by Joint air defense operations/joint engagement zone eglin afb fl and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology, the Director, Test, Systems Engineering and Evaluation manages the Joint Test and Evaluation (hereafter referred to as JT & E) Program, which is a current and long-standing Department of Defense program with the express aim of improving joint operations. Congress initiated the program as a result of a 1972 Presidential Commission, which stated that, at that time, there was no way to conduct test and evaluation in a joint environment. The panel recommended that responsibility for joint testing be vested in the Office of the Secretary of Defense staff dedicated to test and evaluation. The program has subsequently been institutionalized within DoD through regulations, handbooks, and memoranda of agreement. The JT & E Program is not part of the Title X U.S. Code acquisition process; rather, it is complementary to the acquisition process. As systems, people, tactics, techniques, and procedures change, there is a continuous need to evaluate their interrelationships in a realistic, joint military environment. That is the purpose of the JT & E Program.
Download or read book Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2011-01-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A respected resource for decades, the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals has been updated by a committee of experts, taking into consideration input from the scientific and laboratory animal communities and the public at large. The Guide incorporates new scientific information on common laboratory animals, including aquatic species, and includes extensive references. It is organized around major components of animal use: Key concepts of animal care and use. The Guide sets the framework for the humane care and use of laboratory animals. Animal care and use program. The Guide discusses the concept of a broad Program of Animal Care and Use, including roles and responsibilities of the Institutional Official, Attending Veterinarian and the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Animal environment, husbandry, and management. A chapter on this topic is now divided into sections on terrestrial and aquatic animals and provides recommendations for housing and environment, husbandry, behavioral and population management, and more. Veterinary care. The Guide discusses veterinary care and the responsibilities of the Attending Veterinarian. It includes recommendations on animal procurement and transportation, preventive medicine (including animal biosecurity), and clinical care and management. The Guide addresses distress and pain recognition and relief, and issues surrounding euthanasia. Physical plant. The Guide identifies design issues, providing construction guidelines for functional areas; considerations such as drainage, vibration and noise control, and environmental monitoring; and specialized facilities for animal housing and research needs. The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals provides a framework for the judgments required in the management of animal facilities. This updated and expanded resource of proven value will be important to scientists and researchers, veterinarians, animal care personnel, facilities managers, institutional administrators, policy makers involved in research issues, and animal welfare advocates.
Download or read book Reliability Growth written by Panel on Reliability Growth Methods for Defense Systems and published by National Academy Press. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A high percentage of defense systems fail to meet their reliability requirements. This is a serious problem for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), as well as the nation. Those systems are not only less likely to successfully carry out their intended missions, but they also could endanger the lives of the operators. Furthermore, reliability failures discovered after deployment can result in costly and strategic delays and the need for expensive redesign, which often limits the tactical situations in which the system can be used. Finally, systems that fail to meet their reliability requirements are much more likely to need additional scheduled and unscheduled maintenance and to need more spare parts and possibly replacement systems, all of which can substantially increase the life-cycle costs of a system. Beginning in 2008, DOD undertook a concerted effort to raise the priority of reliability through greater use of design for reliability techniques, reliability growth testing, and formal reliability growth modeling, by both the contractors and DOD units. To this end, handbooks, guidances, and formal memoranda were revised or newly issued to reduce the frequency of reliability deficiencies for defense systems in operational testing and the effects of those deficiencies. "Reliability Growth" evaluates these recent changes and, more generally, assesses how current DOD principles and practices could be modified to increase the likelihood that defense systems will satisfy their reliability requirements. This report examines changes to the reliability requirements for proposed systems; defines modern design and testing for reliability; discusses the contractor's role in reliability testing; and summarizes the current state of formal reliability growth modeling. The recommendations of "Reliability Growth" will improve the reliability of defense systems and protect the health of the valuable personnel who operate them.
Download or read book Testing and Assessment in a Joint Distributed Environment written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This article presents an overview of the process adopted by the United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) and its partners to meet requirements to conduct testing and assessments in a joint mission environment. The process is based on a distributed joint systems integration/interoperability laboratory concept. The methodology describes the terms of the governance to ensure joint testing and assessments meet the requirements of the warfighter. The process is defined in terms of joint mission threads (JMTs), associated metrics, and the selection and prioritization of JMTs. This is followed by a mapping of JMTs into available exercises with their embedded systems and a risk mitigation analysis to ensure feasibility. Examples of this process are discussed in terms of exercise data collected during USJFCOM-supported exercises.
Download or read book Joint Test and Evaluation Procedures Manual written by BDM CORP MCLEAN VA. and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this manual is to establish policies for the conduct of Joint Tests and Evaluations and provide guidance for the participating Services, DoD Agencies and Joint Test Director who is responsible for executing the test. The manual documents systems by which the Director Defense Test and Evaluation (DDTE) administers the JT & E program, describes the roles and responsibilities of OSD, the Services, and the Defense Agencies, and outlines the mission, organization and function of the Joint Test Director and the Joint Test Force. The DDTE procedures and mechanisms for planning, budgeting, executing, and controlling the total JT & E program are also described in the manual, which is designed primarily to assist the Joint Test Director in organizing a Joint Test Force and planning and executing a JT & E to achieve the test objectives. (Author).
Download or read book Joint Test and Evaluation Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I am pleased to present the CY 1999 Annual Report of the Joint Test and Evaluation (JT & E) program. This program, now in its 27th year, continues to harness DoDs scientific, test, and analytical expertise to benefit our national defense. This has been an ambitious year for the JT & E program with nine chartered joint tests and two feasibility studies. In addition, during 1999 the program was realigned under the Director of Strategic and Tactical Systems. This report describes our CY 1999 accomplishments and plans for the future.
Download or read book Embedding Questions written by Committee on Embedding Common Test Items in State and District Assessments and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1999-12-01 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy makers are caught between two powerful forces in relation to testing in America's schools. One is increased interest on the part of educators, reinforced by federal requirements, in developing tests that accurately reflect local educational standards and goals. The other is a strong push to gather information about the performance of students and schools relative to national and international standards and norms. The difficulty of achieving these two goals simultaneously is exacerbated by both the long-standing American tradition of local control of education and the growing public sentiment that students already take enough tests. Finding a solution to this dilemma has been the focus of numerous debates surrounding the Voluntary National Tests proposed by President Clinton in his 1997 State of the Union address. It was also the topic of a congressionally mandated 1998 National Research Council report (Uncommon Measures: Equivalence and Linkage Among Educational Tests), and was touched upon in a U.S. General Accounting Office report (Student Testing: Issues Related to Voluntary National Mathematics and Reading Tests). More recently, Congress asked the National Research Council to determine the technical feasibility, validity, and reliability of embedding test items from the National Assessment of Educational Progress or other tests in state and district assessments in 4th-grade reading and 8th-grade mathematics for the purpose of developing a valid measure of student achievement within states and districts and in terms of national performance standards or scales. This report is the response to that congressional mandate.
Download or read book OSD Chartered Joint Test Evaluation written by Joint Close Air Support. Joint Test Force and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Psychological Testing and Assessment written by Ronald Jay Cohen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Test and Evaluation Strategies for Network Enabled Systems written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hierarchical series of strategies is described as an approach for testing and evaluating network enabled systems and systems of systems. The approach builds upon traditional platform performance and requirements-based testing and amplifies it to encompass the additional complexities of interacting systems with their potential for emergent behavior. It is in these interactions that the preponderance of "unknown unknowns" resides and the number of interactions grows geometrically with the size. Future tests will never be able to test a full factorial test matrix. Test and evaluation professionals must develop a systematic approach for building up results from single network nodes to complete joint systems. The hierarchical test strategies, combined with distributed testing and high fidelity live-virtual-constructive environments, are proposed as the most expedient means for satisfying network centric test requirements within time and budget constraints while mitigating technical and programmatic risk.
Download or read book Improving Diagnosis in Health Care written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Download or read book The Greenhouse Gas Protocol written by and published by World Business Pub.. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard helps companies and other organizations to identify, calculate, and report GHG emissions. It is designed to set the standard for accurate, complete, consistent, relevant and transparent accounting and reporting of GHG emissions.
Download or read book Joint Mission Environment Test Capability JMETC written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past six years, utilizing the concept of Joint Operations has become standard for successful U.S. military combat. The need for Joint interdependency and Joint systems interoperability during combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq is irrefutable. Consequently, Joint lessons learned are rapidly being incorporated in combat operations and Service/Joint training programs. However, Joint lessons have proven to be elusive and slow to take hold in the Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition and testing communities. Despite the popularity of the common catch phrase "Born Joint," many systems are fielded without a rigorous and credible test of their capabilities in a Joint operating environment. Performance of Joint systems must be evaluated in a Joint environment, and the only way to do that effectively, efficiently, and early in acquisition is to link distributed high-fidelity test facilities creating a realistic Joint environment. However, the proliferation of unique, noninteroperable, and expensive testing infrastructures remains widespread within the DoD. To effectively and efficiently test systems in a Joint environment, the DoD needed an enterprise-level LVC distributed test capability using a common infrastructure. The Joint Mission Environment Test Capability (JMETC) program was initiated in FY 07 to meet that need. This article provides a brief description of the JMETC program and the capabilities it is providing, as well as its recent accomplishments.
