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into account system supportability, testing can demonstrate that the system is not supportable or sustainable.


Te result could be to significantly increase program cost, because the materiel developer will have to develop solutions to support- ability problems later in the engineering process. Te requirements development process must consider the maintenance and repair requirements and conditions to ensure that those capabilities exist when the system is fielded.


CONCLUSION Te primary purpose of test and evaluation is to provide decision- makers the essential information needed to determine a system’s readiness to proceed to the next program milestone or fielding. Requirements need to lay a foundation that supports achieving this goal.


Requirements that are not focused on the desired operational capability can delay system fielding and increase test costs. Tey can add unnecessary testing as the test and evaluation commu- nity tries to confirm that a system meets a requirement that is not critical to the system’s desired capability. Poorly developed requirements can also increase the scope of existing tests.


Operationally linked requirements ensure that acquisition stake- holders are asking the correct questions and are focusing efforts on providing the desired capability that will help our Soldiers on the battlefield.


For more information, go to www.atec.army.mil and www.benning.army.mil/MCoE/CDID.


JOSHUA R. BARKER is the Armored Brigade Combat Team Division chief at the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. He has nearly 17 years’ experience designing and executing test and evaluation strategies for Army combat vehicles and networked systems. He has a B.S. in mathematics from Bethany College. He is an Army Acquisition Corps member and is Level III certified in test and evaluation.


DON SANDO is director of the Maneuver Capabilities Develop- ment and Integration Directorate, U.S. Army Maneuver Center of Excellence, Fort Benning, Georgia. He was selected to the Senior Executive Service in February 2008 after retiring from the Army as a colonel with 26 years of active service. He has an M.S. in operations research from the U.S. Air Force Institute of Tech- nology, an M.S. in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College and a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is a member of the Association of the United States Army.


Requirements define the system design that is necessary to fill the identified operational need. … Requirements identify the essential questions that testing must answer to verify that the system provides the desired capabilities.


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