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Perspectives on Transforming DT and OT Industry-Government Roundtable

Perspectives on Transforming DT and OT Industry-Government Roundtable. Mr. Rick Lockhart Deputy Director, DT&E OUSD(AT&L) March 3, 2004. Roundtable. Rick Lockhart Pete Adolph Brian Simmons Mike Toole. Joint Capabilities (Jt. Cap. Integration & Development System, 3170.01C)

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Perspectives on Transforming DT and OT Industry-Government Roundtable

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  1. Perspectives onTransforming DT and OTIndustry-Government Roundtable Mr. Rick Lockhart Deputy Director, DT&E OUSD(AT&L) March 3, 2004

  2. Roundtable Rick Lockhart Pete Adolph Brian Simmons Mike Toole

  3. Joint Capabilities (Jt. Cap. Integration & Development System, 3170.01C) • Assess as-is capability to contribute to future joint concepts • Address gaps with appropriate solutions • Evolutionary Acquisition (5000) • Usable capability to warfighter – may lack full functionality • Increments and spirals Emphasis on systems engineering • Systems • More complex • Net-centric functionality • PMs • Deliver capability • Within schedule & cost • Fix issues in next spiral • S-o-S • Based on integrated architectures • Enable mission capabilities • “Net-Ready” KPP Defense Systems Acquisition World Today • Users – Warfighters • Deployed, or training to deploy • Need better capability ASAP, to counter asymmetric threat • Scarce forces for OT

  4. Defense Acquisition Management Framework (Program FOC IOC Initiation) Production & System Development Operations & Concept Technology Deployment & Demonstration Support Refinement Development LRIP Design LRIP FRP Concept IOT&E Readiness Decision LRIP Decision Review Review Pre - Systems Acquisition Systems Acquisition Sustainment C B A BLRIP Rpt TES TEMP TEMP DT&E Government Contractor DT OT DT OT Risk Reduction ACTDs Analysis Demo’s & Exp’s Technology Maturation OA OA OA FOTE OT&E T&E Model Today’s Test Model

  5. T&E Needs Transforming to Fit Today’s Acquisition World Areas to explore: • IOT&E • DT Integration with OT • Mission Capability Testing • JDEP • M&S

  6. Today C B (Program IOC Initiation) Production & System Development Deployment & Demonstration LRIP Design LRIP FRP IOT&E Readiness Decision LRIP Review Review Systems Acquisition Sustainment Can We Make IOT&E Concept More Useful? • IOT&E is now conducted after MS C and (often) multiple LRIPs. • Is pass-fail event after MS C the best contribution? • What type of OT or Evaluation needed before MS C? • Do we need an independent test for an independent evaluation? • Does a single pass-fail event make sense with today’s spiral development?

  7. Can DT Community Better Integrate with OT&E? • More operationally realistic DT can offset need for subsequent OT • Can DT include more realistic environments? • User representative operators? • Introduce simulated operational conditions earlier? • Connect S-o-S for sub-system level testing? • Target DT objectives in OAs and FOT&Es? • Is independent OT required prior to capability fielding?

  8. How to Support S-o-S Mission Capability Decisions? • Acquisition programs are stove-pipe funded by program • Test data is system-centric (except for interoperability, which is largely unknown until MS C) • Should we focus on joint mission capability testing, prior to milestone decisions? • But, PM does not control other S-o-S programs • And, PM is not funded for S-o-S testing

  9. How to Mature JDEP?(Joint Distributed Engineering Plant) • Shown to be an effective, value-added capability for A&MD • Could be effective tool for joint S-o-S T&E across other mission areas • Need long-term strategic plan to expand user base to other mission areas

  10. How to Better Leverage M&Sin Acquisition? • Essential to assess early the joint mission capability of individual systems • M&S can facilitate collaborative S-o-S engineering and test • But, PM doesn’t control other system M&S • OSD examining approaches to enable collaborative S-o-S engineering processes with M&S

  11. Recommendation An independent study on Transforming T&E • Defense Science Board, National Academy of Science, etc • Consider today’s T&E practices in the context of today’s defense systems acquisition world • A fresh outsider look at processes, tools, policies that could benefit defense systems acquisition & test

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