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... 1 Introduction EVOLUTIONARY ACQUISITION: DEFINITION AND RATIONALE The Department of Defense (DoD) recently adopted evolutionary acquisition, a dynamic strategy for the development and acquisition of its defense systems.
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... can be quickly deployed to enhance capabilities in the field, providing flexibility in responding to changing military missions, threats, and operating environments. By comparison, the traditional acquisition process, with its long lead times, often results in buying systems containing technologies that are outdated when finally fielded.
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... The workshop agenda and participants are presented in Appendix D The workshop was organized to learn about the evolutionary acquisition process itself, to examine the role of testing in an evolutionary environment, and to identify relevant best practices in industry and stateof-the-art methodology in the research literature.
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... Is there adequate technical expertise within the acquisition community to fully exploit data gathered from previous stages and to effectively combine information from various sources for test design and analysis? In the discussion of these questions, it became apparent that there are several broader, contextual issues that must also be addressed if the recommendations on test design are to be effective.
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... Box 1-1 Acronyms and Abbreviations ACAT I acquisition category I ACTDs advanced concept technology demonstrations AoA analysis of alternatives APBs acquisition program baselines ATDs advanced technology demonstrations CNA Center for Naval Analyses CNSTAT Committee on National Statistics DoD U.S. Department of Defense DOT&E Office of the Director of Operational Testing and Evaluation FOC full operating capability FRP full rate production IOC initial operating conditions IOT&E initial operational test and evaluation LRIP low rate initial production OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense POS parametric operational situation RDT&E research, development, test, and evaluation USD-AT&L Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
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