A Study on the Improvement Method of DTE for Company Organized Weapon Systems Research and Development

摘要

The improvement of the reliability of weapon systems and the reduction of the total life-cycle cost based on the improving of the DTE system for Company Organized weapon systems research and development are urgently required. The major advanced countries operate test and evaluation centers for military (U.S.), manage a large scale organization of IPT personnel (England) or conduct management of DTE through a third party organization (France). Based on a survey of experts, an improvement of the DTE policy in terms of reliability and objectiveness is needed, and management through a third party national defense agency and civilian agency such as the Surion development case is required. In addition, although it appears that efficiency improves when management of DTE is performed by national defence agencies rather than civilian agencies, it is necessary to proceed by selecting a civilian agency based on competition in the case that it is difficult to select a national defence agency.