Chemical and Biological Defense Test and Evaluation-A Hallmark of Integrating DT and OT

摘要

The most operationally realistic testing of chemical and biological defense systems uses actual biological and chemical warfare agent; however, testing live or actual agents is restricted to laboratory containment chambers, which are operationally unrealistic environments. This state of affairs has driven the chemical and biological defense community to integrate developmental testing (DT) and operational testing (OT) to support the evaluation process. Three paradigms are commonly used to integrate chemical and biological defense DT and OT. They are (a) conducting DT with systems before and after OT, (b) developing agent simulant relationships in DT, which are then applied to OT data, and (c) modeling and simulation. This article supplies chemical and biological defense system examples for each paradigm.