Reorganization Pays Off.A reorganization of Defense Department test and evaluation operations over the past year has "dramatically improved" the department's ability to address the declining state of testing for new military technology, said Philip E. Coyle III, director of operational test and evaluation (testing) operational test and evaluation - (OT&E) Formal testing conducted prior to deployment to evaluate the operational effectiveness and suitability of the system with respect to its mission. . In 1999, Defense Secretary Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. consolidated most of test and evaluation functions For the string evaluation function, see . An evaluation function, also known as a heuristic evaluation function or static evaluation function, is a function used by game-playing programs to estimate the value or goodness of a position in the minimax and related within Coyle's office, he explained to reporters. Coyle's office now oversees test ranges and facilities with a total of 18,000 square miles A square mil is a unit of area, equal to the area of a square with sides of length one mil. A mil is one thousandth of an international inch. This unit of area is usually used in specifying the area of the cross section of a wire or cable. of land, 180,000 square miles of airspace and more than 30,000 personnel. But the test and evaluation workload is growing, while "resources ... are down significantly," Coyle said. "Investment funding is inadequate to fill the gap." In 1999, for example, $110 million was taken from the test line of the F-22 program, he said. |
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