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2 ORIGIN OF TESTING REQUIREMENTS
2 ORIGIN OF TESTING REQUIREMENTS
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Once a system enters the formal acquisition process, company designers receive contractual specifications from the system program of lice of the designated service. The system program office (the developer)
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F-22 LIVE FIRE TESTING REQUIREMENTS This section addresses the many documents that influence the F-22 live fire test program. Because the early documents were reviewed in detail by the previous NRC committee (NRC, ~ 993)
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. In August 1992, James O'Bryon, the Deputy Director of Test arid Evaluation for Live Fire Testing in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, sent a memorandum to the Air Force Director of Test and Evaluation.
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(O'Bryon, 1992) 19 The committee notes that Fain's memorandum to the Of lice of the Secretary of the Air Force preceded O'Bryon's memorandum by nearly a year, indicating that O'Bryon was unaware of Fain's waiver reco~runendation.
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On July 25, 1994, the Air Force published Instruction 99-105 to provide "guidance and procedures for the live fire test and evaluation of Air Force systems" (USAF, 1994~. The document states that it is "in compliance with EFT&E legislation." It also states: EFT&E is a sub-set of developmental test and evaluation (DT&E)
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Recent Amendment to Waiver Provision of the Live Fire Test Law The waiver provision of the EFT law was amended in 1994 by addition of the following (10 U.S.C. 2366; see Appendix B for full text of the waiver · provision : [T]
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There has been no technical change in the program to account for the change in the Air Force's position. The history of what happened is best understood in terms of four points: the Air Force position on vulnerability; the Air Force position on filll-up, filll-scale live fire testing, confusion over the interpretation of the law; and hope within DoD and the Air Force that the previous NRC committee would help mitigate the requirements of the law.
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Position on Full-Up, Full-Scale Testing To the committee's knowledge, the Air Force has never planned to conduct full-up, full-scale tests of the F-22, believing that they would be too expensive and result in the loss of aircraft needed for other test purposes. The Air Force estimates that full-up, full-scale live fire testing of the F-22 would cost approximately $250 million, an amount that has not been budgeted (Raggio, ~ 994~.
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Several Air Force briefings to this committee referred to the recornrnendations of the previous NRC committee arid the subsequent DoD guidelines (Hawley, 1994; Ogg, 1995; arid Raggio, 19941. Others, who were OSD officials in 1991, expressed disappointment that the previous NRC committee did not take issue with the need for filll-up, full-scare, live fire testing of aircraft (Reed, 19951: ~ As indicated in a conversation on February 8, 1995, among Mike Clarke and Harry Reed of the Committee on the Study of Live Fire Survivability Testing for the F-22 Aircraft and Charles "Pete" Adolph, Larry Stanford, and Al Rainis, all of whom were OSD officials involved in test and evaluation at the time of Milestone II.
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to be on the safe side. The answer to this question may lie in the services' reluctance to submit waiver requests, which the previous NRC committee detected, leading it to recommend "that no stigma be attached to the use of the waiver process" (NRC, 1993~.
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, the Air Force should reexamine the balance of requirements among susceptibility, vulnerability, arid related performance parameters.
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The currently accepted interpretation, as contained in the ~ 994 DoD guidelines, is quite clear on the requirements for full-up, filll-scale, live fire testing or for a waiver from such testing prior to Milestone Il. These requirements were subsequently reflected clearly in Air Force Instruction 99-105.
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The Air Force initially based its belief on the DoD guidelines and then apparently hoped that the previous NRC committee would help mitigate the full-up, full-scale requirement (allowing instead the component and subassembly test methodology)
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Presentation to the Committee on the Study of Live Fire Survivability Testing of the F-22 Aircraft, F-22 System Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, January 19. Gorelick, I.S.
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Presentation to the Committee on the Study of Live Fire Survivability Testing of the F-22 Aircraft, F-22 System Program Office, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, January 19. TAP (Tactical Air Force)
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