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The Department of Defense operates several ranges across all service branches to test the effectiveness of military systems. The DoD’s Office of Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) has asked the Board on Army Research and Development to assess the physical and technical suitability of the DoD's ranges, infrastructure, and tools used for test and evaluation of military systems' operational effectiveness, suitability, survivability, and lethality across all domains (land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace).
This study is conducted in parallel with a classified study on the operational suitability of DoD ranges, namely their capacity to simulate adversary threats and test future technologies.
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Necessary DoD Range Capabilities to Ensure Operational Superiority of U.S. Defense Systems: Testing for the Future Fight
Consensus Study Report
·2021
Rigorous operational testing (OT) of weapon systems procured by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is fundamental to ensuring that these sophisticated systems not only meet their stated requirements, but also perform under realistic operational conditions when faced by determined adversaries emplo...
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