Best Practices for Developmental Testing of Modern, Complex Munitions

摘要

The growing cost and schedule constraints on government weapons development programs as well as their rising complexity increase the need for a decision theoretic-framework for product development. This framework must rely on insight gained from a variety of sources for test planning, test evaluation, and decision support. The best practices presented in this article for system- level developmental test planning and execution are collected from reported experience and criticism of industry and government product development programs. These practices and methodologies are applied in a coherent framework that allows a formal combination of the disparate sources of product knowledge available to decision makers in the early stages of development.