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The different stages can be additional hardware and software capabilities or performance gains due to advances in technological maturity and reliability growth. DoD has presented evolutionary acquisition as the preferred option for development of key complex defense systems, a leading example being the Army's Future Combat System.
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If not, what changes are needed in the DoD environment, the acquisition process, and incentives to ensure that the full benefits of testing in the evolutionary environment can be realized? Is the current level of cooperation among the program manager, contractors, and the developmental and operational testing communities adequate for supporting evolutionary acquisition?
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Recommendation 1: The under secretary of defense (acquisi tion, technology and logistics) and the director of operational test and evaluation should revise DoD documents and pro c e s s e s (e.g., DoD Directive 5000.1 and DoD Instruction 5000.2)
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Recommendation 2: The under secretary of defense (acquisition, technology and logistics) and the director of operational test and evaluation should revise DoD testing procedures to explicitly re quire that developmental tests have an operational perspective (i.e., are representative of real-world usage conditions)
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Evolutionary acquisition provides opportunities to discipline this process by delaying the introduction of risky, immature technology to future stages, and by using advanced technology demonstrations or advanced concept technology demonstrations to further develop and evaluate immature technologies. This will eliminate the possibility of delay of the entire acquisition program due to the use of a single risky technology, or risk using technology that has not been demonstrated to be sufficiently effective or reliable.
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Conclusion 5: The DoD testing community should investigate alter native strategies for testing complex defense systems to gain, early in the development process, an understanding of their potential opera tional failure modes, limitations, and level of performance. There are increased opportunities for combining information to improve test design and analysis in an evolutionary acquisition environment, given data from developmental, operational, and field tests of the system from earlier, fielded versions.
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should eliminate inconsistencies in DoD Directive 5000.1 and DoD Instruction 5000.2 and clarify other significant memoranda and documents regarding evolutionary ac quisition. All policies and procedures to be used in applying evo lutionar y acquisition principles to DoD acquisition programs should be strictly enforced.
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Recommendation 8: The deputy secretary of defense should charge a blue ribbon panel, including experts in organizational behavior, multiobjective decision making, and other relevant areas, to re view the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment panel's pro posed changes to DoD acquisition policies and procedures. This review should take place (if possible)
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