Improved Operational Testing and Evaluation Better Measurement and Test Design for the Interim Brigade Combat Team with Stryker Vehicles: Phase I Report (2003) / Chapter Skim
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ARMY'S NEED FOR AN INTERIM ARMORED VEHICLE (STRYKER) The United States Army anticipates increases in the number and types of asymmetric threats and will be required to support an expanding variety of missions (including military operations in urban terrain and operations other than war)
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, the Army intends to rely on an Interim Force, the critical warfighting component of which is the Interim Brigade Combat Team (IBCT)
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Stryker Capabilities The Army has identified two different but clearly dependent capability requirements for the Stryker-supported IBCT: operational capabilities for the IBCT force that will rely on the Stryker, and system capabilities for the Stryker family of vehicles. IBCT Operational Capabilities The Army's Operational Requirements Document for the Stryker (ORD, 2000)
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and other enhancements provide the IBCT a larger internetted web of situational awareness extending throughout the IBCT area of operations. The synergistic effects achieved by internetting highly trained soldiers and leaders with platforms and organizational design enable the force to avoid surprise, develop rapid decisions, control the time and place to engage in combat, conduct precision maneuver, shape the battlespace with precision fires and effects, and achieve decisive outcomes.
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, Advanced Field Artillery Tactical Data System Command, Control, Communications and Computer (AFATDS Cal. MC-4 Medic's Aide NBC Sensor Suite Eyesafe Laser Range Finder (ELRF)
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Although we have major concerns about the appropriateness of using the LIB as an alternative comparison force, because our primary responsibility is to address broader statistical and test design issues, we have taken this choice of baseline to be a firm constraint. PANEL CHARGE The Stryker will soon be entering an 1 8-month period of operational test and evaluation to determine whether it is effective and suitable to enter
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The panel was also asked to identify alternative measures (e.g., of situation awareness) and experimental designs that could better reflect the advantages and disadvantages of the IBCT force equipped with the Stryker system relative to the LIB force.
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We also reviewed in detail all key government documents pertaining to the operational testing of the IBCT/Stryker, including: the Operational Requirements Document, · the System Evaluation Plan, · the Test and Evaluation Master Plan, · the Organizational and Operational Description, · the Failure Definition and Scoring Document, · the Mission Needs Statement, · the Operational Mode Summary and Mission Profile, and sample Operational Orders applicable to operational tests. With the cooperation of the management and staff of ATEC, the panel conducted two forums and two subgroup meetings at which ATEC staff presented, in response to panel queries: descriptions of measures of effectiveness, suitability, and survivability under consideration for the initial operational test; details of the proposed experimental design; planned use of modeling and simulation; and planned methods of analysis of data that will result from the testing.
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Box 1-1 presents a number of terms used in operational testing. After additional forums and deliberations, the panel intends to prepare a second report that addresses the applicability of combining information from other sources with that from the IBCT/Stryker initial operational test.
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the problems raised by the simultaneous evaluation of the Stryker vehicle and the IBCT system that incorporates it, (c) whether the operational test can definitively answer specific tactical questions, such as the degree to which the increased vulnerability of Stryker is offset by the availability of greater situational awareness, and (~)
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Thus, the panel wishes to make very clear that this assessment of the operational test as currently designed reflects only its statistical merits. It is certainly possible that the IBCT/Stryker operational test may be deficient in other respects, some of them listed above, that may subordinate the statistical aspects of the test.
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