Accession Number:

ADA235987

Title:

Operational Suitability Test and Evaluation

Descriptive Note:

Recurring rept.

Corporate Author:

AIR FORCE OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION CENTER KIRTLAND AFB NM

Personal Author(s):

• Young, David B.

Report Date:

1991-05-15

Pagination or Media Count:

156.0

Abstract:

This Pamphlet provides logistics personnel with a base on which to build knowledge of concepts and procedures pertaining to operational suitability test and evaluation. It is intended to serve as a how to guide for HQ AFOTECLG staff, AFOTEC detachments and test teams and other agencies involved in operational test and evaluation OTE may also find it useful. The pamphlet is divided into three parts as follows a Part I gives an overview of the pamphlet and operational suitability test and evaluation b Part II deals with the key activities of operational suitability test and evaluation, i.e., test concept development, operational assessments, test execution, and test reporting. Included is a discussion of participating organizations and their relationships and c Part III provides detailed discussions on key operational suitability evaluation areas, i.e., availability, reliability, maintainability, software evaluation, and integrated, diagnostics. Attachments provide additional discussions of special operational suitability areasissues such as dormant reliability, nuclear hardness maintenancehardness surveillance HMHS, and considerations of availability evaluations by system type.

Descriptors:

• *TEST AND EVALUATION
• MAINTAINABILITY
• RELIABILITY
• DORMANCY
• LOGISTICS
• PERSONNEL
• COMPUTER PROGRAM VERIFICATION
• TEST FACILITIES
• OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
• AVAILABILITY

Subject Categories:

• Personnel Management and Labor Relations

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE