Better Planning and Management of Threat Simultors and Aerial Targets Is Crucial to Effective Weapon Systems Performance

摘要

Operational test and evaluation is the most effective way, under peacetime conditions, to determine a weapon system's combat worth. Realistic testing, however, requires test resources, such as threat simulators and aerial targets, that duplicate, to the extent possible, the characteristics of the enemy's weapon systems. DOD's test resource planning practices, organizational structures, management emphasis, and intelligence support for threat simulators and aerial targets can be improved to provide better assurance that current and future weapon systems will meet performance expectations.