Test Evaluation and Assessment

Learn the meaning and importance of operationally relevant environments as it relates to Technical Readiness Levels (TRLs) and how to assess threat and environmental realism for test design.

Gregory Tackett

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Description

Understand the planning, process, and products of system evaluation and system assessment through testing.

Learn how to build assessment plans and validation plans that map required system performance to test and analysis events.

Learn to develop a functional dendritic to assess system performance based upon test results. Understand the relationship between Modeling & Simulation (M&S) and test in a Model-Test-Model approach, as well as in Live-Virtual-Constructive environments.

Learn the meaning and importance of operationally relevant environments as it relates to Technical Readiness Levels (TRLs) and how to assess threat and environmental realism for test design. Put these skills into practice in the controlled environment of course example problems.

Key Takeaways

  • System assessment definition
  • Compliance vs performance
  • Assessing capabilities and limitations
  • Functional dendritic
  • Data source matrix
  • Model-Test-Model (MTM)
  • Live/Virtual/Constructive (LVC) Environments
  • Design of threat models and range targets
  • Evaluation definition
  • Operational evaluation
  • Operational realism
  • Performance, suitability, and survivability
  • Evaluating the kill chain
  • Evaluating Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM)
  • Analysis of Alternatives (AoA)

Meet your Instructor

Gregory Tackett is Vice President over the Technical Solutions Division for nou Systems Inc. (nSI) and is the former US Army Senior Executive Service (SES) Director of the Aviation and Missile Research, Development, and Engineering Center (AMRDEC) Systems Simulation and Development Directorate (SSD), and the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) Operational Test Agency (OTA).

Mr. Tackett has over 38 years of M&S and T&E experience. He has a BS in Physics from Mississippi College and an MBA from the University of Tennessee Knoxville.

He teaches Systems Engineering Overview, Test and Evaluation Principles, Systems Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation, and Test Evaluation and Assessment for UAH PD Solutions.

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