Test and Evaluation Resources

DOT&E TEMP Guide
Test and Evaluation Management Plan (TEMP) Template, ADDM
Test and Evaluation, Defense Acquisition Guidebook
Development Test Cyber Vulnerability Analysis Standards, Nov 2020
DoD Cybersecurity T&E Guidebook, Feb2020
Reasons Behind Program Delays – 2014 Update – Aug 2014
The Value of Operational Testing and Evaluation – updated 10 Jun 2014
Test & Evaluation of Materials Degradation: Corrosion Prevention, Mitigation, & Control – Oct 2012
Risk Based Approach to Test and Evaluation, DAU, May 2012
NDIA 2012 Panel on the role of T&E in Requirements; Conference proceedings – Mar 2012
Key Issues in Reliability Growth briefing to National Academy of Sciences – Sept 2011

Test Science Motivation and Report Guidance for DOT&E Action Officers
Test Design, Statistical Analyses in TEMPs, Test Plans, and DOT&E Reports — Introduction and Course Overview
Test Planning Foundations
Experimental Designs
TEMP and Test Plan Review Examples
Statistical Analysis Overview
Statistical Model Selection
Advanced Analysis Methodologies Cybersecurity Training in OT&E for DOT&E Action Officers
DOT&E Cybersecurity Procedures
Cybersecurity OT&E Myths
Procedures for OT&E of Cybersecurity in Acquisition Programs
Institutionalizing a Culture of Statistical Thinking in DoD Testing – September 2017
Reasons Behind Program Delays – 2017 Update Overview and Program Details – June 2017
The Value of Rigorous Statistical and Analytical Techniques in Test and Evaluation – April 2016
The Value of Operational Testing and Evaluation V8(Otherwise known as “Realistic Operational Testing and System Requirements”) – March 2016
Reasons Behind Program Delays – 2014 Update – August 2014
The Value of Operational Testing and Evaluation – 10 June 2014
Test & Evaluation of Materials Degradation: Corrosion Prevention, Mitigation, & Control – October 2012
NDIA 2012 Panel on the role of T&E in Requirements – March 2012
Key Issues with Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Test and Evaluation – December 2011
Key Issues in Reliability Growth briefing to National Academy of Sciences – September 2011
Key Issues with Program Delays and Reliability Growth Dr. Gilmore’s 2011 Speech to ITEA – September 2011
Reasons Behind Program Delays (For Selected Programs with Nunn-McCurdy Breaches) – August 2011
Updated DOT&E Input on Program Delays – May 2011
Testing Doesn’t Cost – It Pays – April 2011
Marginal Cost of OT&E – April 2011
Design of Experiments Workshop – 2009 Feb
- A General Framework for Design of Experiments: Principles, Techniques and Applications (NIST)
- Design of Experiments for Operational Test (AFOTEC)
- Framework for Understanding Design Validity (ATEC)

AF T&E Air Force Test and Evaluation — CAC Required to view this site.
AFOTEC Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center
AEC Army Evaluation Center
ATEC Army Test and Evaluation Command
CCM Center for Countermeasures
COMOPTEVFOR Navy Commander Operational Test and Evalutation Force
DT&E/DTRMC Developmental Test & Evaluation / Director, Test Resource Management Center
DTIC Defense Technical Information Center – Note: DOT&E Reports are archived here.
DOT&E Extranet — CAC Required to view this site.
ITEA International Test and Evaluation Association
JASP Joint Aircraft Survivability Program
JITC Joint Interoperability Test Command
JT&E Joint Test & Evaluation — CAC Required to view this site.
MCOTEA Marine Corps Operational Test and Evalutation Activity
NAWCWD Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division
NAVSEA Naval Sea Systems Command Warfare Centers
NDIA National Defense Industrial Association
NRL Naval Research Laboratory
ONR Office of Naval Research
R&E Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering

Developmental Test and Requirements: Best Practices for Using Agile Methods, Apr 2019
Evaluation Lessons From Live Fire Testing, Defense AT&L Magazine, Mar 2018
Dynamic Testing, Michael Hale, William Barber, Mar 2015
Test and Evaluations Myths and Misconceptions, Dr. Steve Hutchinson, Jan 2015
What Happened to DT&E?, Dr. Steve Hutchinson, Mar 2014
The Original Director for Test and Evaluation, Jan 2014
Shift Left, Test Earlier in Lifecycle, Oct 2013
Perspectives on Developmental Test and Evaluation, Frank Kendall, Mar 2013
ITEA Journal, 2016 Highlights

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