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3 The OSD Live Fire Test and Evaluation Program
Pages 38-41

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... Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. The OSD Live Fire Test and Evaluation Program 3 The Live Fire Test law passed in 1987 stipulates that realistic program and assessing possible alternatives to realistic survivability testing be conducted on covered systems.
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From page 39...
... The Planning Guide contains the TEC LFT&E Evaluation Master Plan Guidelines," October 1986, in areas guidelines of 1988; the Live Fire Testing legislation; and pertaining to Live Fire Testing. They also defined the LFT&E guidance concerning the definition of critical issues for Live plan requirements.
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... Full-up testing includes firings against fullup The 1988 LFT&E Guidelines and the 1989 LFT&E components, full-up subsystems, full-up subassemblies, or full Planning Guide are the current written guidance provided to up systems. The term "Full-up Testing" is synonymous with the Services and their Program Managers to assist them in the "realistic survivability testing" or "realistic lethality testing" as defined in the legislation covering Live Fire Testing.
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... , 1988. Live Fire Test and The committee believes that the Services, when they consider Evaluation Guidelines, Test and Evaluation Committee, Memorandum that full-scale, full-up Live Fire Tests are unreasonably for Assistant Secretary of the Army (Research Development and expensive and impractical, should ask for a waiver.
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