TY - BOOK AU - National Research Council TI - Live Fire Testing of the F-22 SN - 978-0-309-05333-4 DO - 10.17226/4971 PY - 1995 UR - https://nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/4971/live-fire-testing-of-the-f-22 PB - The National Academies Press CY - Washington, DC LA - English KW - Conflict and Security Issues KW - Space and Aeronautics AB - The Live Fire Test Law mandates realistic survivability and lethality testing of covered systems or programs. A provision of the law permits the Secretary of Defense to waive tests if live fire testing would be "unreasonably expensive and impractical." Though no waiver was requested before the F-22 program entered engineering and manufacturing development, the Defense Department later asked that Congress enact legislation to permit a waiver to be granted retroactively. Rather than enact such legislation, Congress requested a study to explore the pros and cons of full-scale, full-up testing for the F-22 aircraft program. The book discusses the origin of testing requirements, evaluates the practicality, affordability, and cost-benefit of live fire tests, and examines the role of testing, modeling, and data bases in vulnerability assessment. ER -