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 analyze events. Learn to develop a functional dendritic to assess system performance based on test results. Understand the relationship between Modeling & Simulation (M&S) and testing in a Model-Test-Model approach, as well as in Live-Virtual-Constructive environments. Learn the meaning and importance of operationally relevant environments as they relate 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)

This course is included in the Test and Evaluation Certificate.

Earn 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs).