Testing, TESTED E
USAOTC looks to streamline testing and increase the value of training with a new paradigm that would capitalize on collaboration and communication to get new products to Soldiers in less time and at a lower cost.
by CPT Lev L. Mazères
very test effort faces its own set of challenges—the Air Soldier System (Air SS) included—but through creative problem-solving, a team from the U.S. Army Operational Test Command (USAOTC) delivered a thorough opera- tional test (OT) that has positioned the evaluation effort for success as the
Air SS Test and Evaluation Working Integrated Product Team prepares for an initial operational test (IOT) in late summer 2015.
USAOTC executed a series of test events over the course of two months last sum- mer, in support of Product Manager (PdM) Air Warrior’s Air SS milestone C low-rate initial production decision. During this period, personnel from the U.S. Army Evalu- ation Center (USAEC), Army Aviation Concepts and Requirements Directorate, PdM Air Warrior, the Army Survival, Escape, Resistance, and Evasion (SERE) School at Fort Rucker, AL, and the 10th Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) supported operational testers from the USAOTC Aviation Test Directorate. Te goal of these events was to test the effectiveness, suitability and survivability of the Air SS in an operational environment.
While successful, the experience revealed the need to re-examine how an enterprise plans, resources and executes OTs—particularly with regard to programs in acqui- sition category (ACAT) II and below that are not on the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) Test and Evaluation (T&E) Oversight List—in a new, more fiscally constrained environment. ACAT I and T&E Oversight List programs generally receive test unit priority.
Air SS is an integrated, modular, mission-tailorable aviation life support equipment and protective ensemble for aircrew Soldiers. Intended for crews of select manned aircraft in maneuver, maneuver support and maneuver sustainment roles involved
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