Appendix B
Background Materials
The Workshop on Statistical Issues in Defense Analysis and Testing was held jointly by the Committee on National Statistics and the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics on September 24-25, 1992. As part of the workshop, defense analysts were invited to write and present background papers and discuss substantive areas in which they sought improvements through application of statistical methods. Below is a list of these papers, which are available from their respective authors. Commentaries and discussions of the background papers listed below were also prepared by various workshop participants. Please refer to Appendix A for a list of the discussion items.
Techniques for Determining Test Size
James B. Duff
Navy Operational Test and Evaluation Force, Norfolk, Va
Design of Experiments in Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E )—Where Should We Go Next?
Arthur Fries
Institute for Defense Analyses, Alexandria, Virginia
Risk Assessment in Modeling and Testing
Charles Horton
Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, The Pentagon
Cost and Operational Effectiveness Analyses (COEAs) and the Acquisition Process
William Lese
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation, The Pentagon
Reliability Testing for Complex Single Shot Equipment and Highly Reliable Continuous Equipment
Martin Meth and Robert Read
Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Production, and Logistics, The Pentagon
Modeling for Weapon Systems in an Operational Context
Jim Metzger
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation, The Pentagon
Cost of Testing/Program Costs
Peggy Mion and John Gehrig
Army Test and Evaluation Management Agency, The Pentagon
Risk Assessment in Modeling and Simulation
Patricia Sanders
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation, The Pentagon
How Much Testing Is Enough?
Ernest Seglie
Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation, The Pentagon
Design of Experiments in Operational Effectiveness Analysis
Cyrus Staniec
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation, The Pentagon