Improved Operational Testing and Evaluation and Methods of Combining Test Information for the Stryker Family of Vehicles and Related Army Systems Phase II Report (2004) / Chapter Skim
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5. Testing Challenges and Opportunities Posed by the Future Combat System
5. Testing Challenges and Opportunities Posed by the Future Combat System
Pages 69-76
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Stryker/SBCT is the interim part of this transformation program, which includes legacy, interim, and objective forces. Legacy forces are existing heavy forces (equipped with M-1 Abrams tanks and M-2 Bradley fighting vehicles)
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that remotely fire precision and loitering attack missiles, intelligent mine system that distributes mines on call, armed reconnaissance vehicle, small unmanned ground vehicle, and mule vehicle to help infantry carry materi
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Concurrent with the development of the FCS, the Army is developing operational concepts for use of a net-centric FBCT, including new tactics, techniques, and procedures to exploit the new FCS technologies and obtain maximal effectiveness across the anticipated spectrum of operational missions. TESTING CHALLENGES The objective force will require extensive and continual testing and experimentation, using a process that is substantially more complex than the operational test conducted for the Stryker/SBCT.
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As previously noted, initial operational capability for the FCS family of systems will be 2010 with continual significant block upgrades in capability every 3-5 years and changing software via a spiral development pro
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Operational testing for ultrareliability will be a significant challenge, requiring efficient combining of data and innovative approaches such as stress testing and accelerated testing. TESTING OPPORTUNITIES There is sufficient time before the first unit is equipped and initial operational capability is implemented for ATEC to begin planning the testing and evaluation program.
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If it is structured to make effective use of the latest data-mining techniques, the archive should: · facilitate effective combining of data from different sources over time; · provide information needed to interpolate the results of testing in a limited number of operational situations in order to assess capabilities of the FCS/FBCT in situations not tested: · provide a "hot plant" for reliability assessments; · provide data to design efficient subsequent testing in the FCS/ FBCT evolutionary development process; · assist in developing performance correlates (e.g., reliability) for design of FCS evolutionary upgrades; · provide data to assess the versatility of FCS/FBCT worldwide; and · provide data to compare the results of simulation analyses with those of operational testing.
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In addition, there are implications with respect to both the utility of statistical approaches to combine information for system evaluation at each stage, and the increased need for data archives to support this type of system evaluation and the experimental design used for each subsequent stage. The strategy should also recognize both the need to evaluate the family of systems and the potential need for diagnostic experimentation of operational concepts in multiple operational situations.
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76 IMPROVED OPERATIONAL TESTING AND EVALUATION recognize the need to evaluate the family of systems and the potential need for diagnostic experimentation of operational concepts in multiple operational situations, · delineate relevant questions to be addressed by testing and evaluation, · determine the value of additional data (from subsequent tests) needed to address these questions, and · include modeling and simulation activities as an integral part of the testing and evaluation process.
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