Statistics, Testing, and Defense Acquisition: New Approaches and Methodological Improvements

by National Research Council, Committee on National Statistics, Panel on Statistical Methods for Testing and Evaluating Defense Systems

For every weapons system being developed, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) must make a critical decision: Should the system go forward to full-scale production? The answer to that question may involve not only tens of billions of dollars but also the nation's security and military capabilities. In the milestone process used by DOD to answer the basic acquisition question, one component near the end of the process is operational testing, to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309065518
• ISBN13: 9780309065511
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"