Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com acquisition workforce T&E Functional Chief. As the T&E FCR, furnish the T&E Acquisition Career Field representa- tion to the Army Acquisition Career Program Board Functional Working Group and to the T&E education oversight committees. v. Chair the Army Threat Validation Working Group. w. Approve Army Threat Validation Reports for Targets and Threat Simulators/Simulations. 2–13. Director of Army Safety The Director of Army Safety, assisted by the U.S. Army Safety Center (USASC), will exercise primary Army general staff responsibility for system safety (see AR 385–16).
The USASC will ensure that system safety issues are monitored and evaluated and will provide an independent safety assessment before MS decisions. 2–14. Heads of other HQDA agencies Heads of other HQDA agencies will monitor T&E programs that affect their areas of mission responsibilities. Section II Heads of Major Army Commands 2–15. Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command The Commanding General (CG), U.S. Army Materiel Command (USAMC) will provide technology, acquisition support, and logistics to the U.S. Army and will— a. By means of the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command and its major subordinate commands— (1) Provide a member to the TSARC.
(See para 9–3.) (2) Appoint a T&E Manager at HQ, U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (USAR- DECOM) and the USARDECOM major subordinate commands to provide centralized T&E management and represen- tation to T&E forums as required. (3) Provide input to the ATRMP. b. By means of the CG, USACECOM— (1) Manage and provide test efforts for C4I/IT and cryptographic equipment as assigned by CIO/G–6 or USAMC. Coordinate with USATEC through the T&E WIPT for the management of test efforts associated with assigned C4I/IT systems.
(2) Serve as advisor to OSD, CIO/G–6, and to USAMC for C4I/IT on engineering programs and phases to include DT during the engineering life-cycle, technical policy matters concerning transmission and communication systems, facilities, equipment standards and practices, RDTE, and activities within DOD concerning C4I/IT industry standards and practices. (3) Use the USACECOM Army Participating Test Unit (APTU) to support joint interoperability testing of C4I/IT systems that require certification and recertification by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).
The USACECOM APTU, coordinating with DISA and the Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC), will review C4I/IT test plans and procedures, make all necessary communication links, conduct the test, perform the analysis, and generate joint interoperability certification reports for all Army elements and systems. (4) Provide a safety release before the start of pretest training for any test that uses soldiers as test players for C4I/ IT systems assigned by CIO/G–6 or USAMC. (5) Provide for M&S as it supports the test life-cycle, to include workload, capacity, network, and peak performance tests for C4I/IT systems assigned by CIO/G–6 or USAMC. c.
By means of the Director, Army Research Laboratory— (1) Provide the Army’s human factors and MANPRINT resources through the Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED). (a) Conduct research that directly impacts the soldier by developing technologies that improve how humans interact with Army systems while mitigating adverse effects from threat systems. This valuable research is used to enhance the operational characteristics of Army systems that undergo the T&E process. (b) Provide research to T&E organizations that optimize soldier performance and soldier/machine interfaces for maximum effectiveness.
This includes extensive research in human perceptual, cognitive, and psychomotor perform- ance that builds the framework for human factors and MANPRINT advances and helps improve the effectiveness of fielded and developmental systems. (c) Provide information to T&E organizations on human performance measurement, intelligent decision aids, human control of automated systems, control/display/workstation design, simulation and human modeling, and MANPRINT design and integration. (2) Using the Survivability/Lethality and Analysis Directorate, provide the Army’s survivability, lethality, and vulnerability (SLV) analysis and evaluation support, adding value over the entire system life-cycle.
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