Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com i. Represent the Army on OSD forums for coordinating T&E policy and resources. j. Recommend candidate systems to DOD for live-fire T&E (LFT&E). k. Serve as the Acquisition Workforce T&E Functional Chief for the acquisition workforce Career Field T (that is, T&E). l. Serve as the Army representative to the Defense Test and Training Steering Group. m. Serve as an advisor to the Army’s voting representative to the JT&E Senior Advisory Council (SAC). 2–2.
Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) The Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology (ASA(ALT) or Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology) (OASA(ALT)) will— a. Execute research, development, test, and evaluation (RDTE) and Army Procurement Appropriation (APA) funds for T&E. b. Assist the Army T&E Executive and the Test and Evaluation Management Agency (TEMA) in developing T&E policy. c. Provide a member to the TSARC. (See chap 9.) d.
In coordination with the Program Executive Office, Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation Command, and the Project Manager, Instrumentation, Targets and Threat Simulators (PM ITTS)— (1) Serve as the Army’s single manager and the proponent for major test ITTS and represent the U.S. Army on joint service programs. (2) Plan, program, budget, defend, and oversee the execution of major test ITTS funding. (3) Provide input to the ATRMP. (4) Coordinate and consolidate customer technical and functional requirements for instrumentation, targets, and threat simulators. (5) Monitor threat representative targets and threat simulators/simulations to ensure they are programmed for validation.
(6) Participate in the development of the CTEIP. (7) In coordination with USATEC and PM ITTS, maintain a capability inventory of current Army test ITTS for assigned C4I/IT systems. (8) Initiate the development, engineering, procurement, and modification of major ITTS programs and deliver them to user organizations for accountability, operation, and maintenance. (9) Provide representation to Validation and Threat Accreditation Working Groups for targets and threat simulators. (10) Coordinate, consolidate, and recommend development priorities for test ITTS requirements established by Army and DOD user agencies and document them in a long-range plan.
(11) Manage foreign test ITTS required to support T&E not managed by the USATEC Threat Support Activity (ATSA). 2–3. Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers The Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (CIO/G–6), in execu- tion of duties as the Army Chief Information Officer, will— a. Manage C4/IT activities in support of the Army Acquisition Executive (AAE), including T&E C4/IT life-cycle management. b. Plan, program, and budget Operation and Maintenance, Army (OMA) funds for fixed and recurring costs for testing of C4/IT systems assigned to U.S. Army Communications and Electronics Command (USACECOM). c.
Review, coordinate, and approve critical operational issues and criteria (COIC) for non-tactical C4/IT programs. d. Execute staff responsibilities for C4I/IT as the Chief Information Officer for the Army and provide technical oversight for C4I/IT. e. Assist the Army T&E Executive and TEMA in developing C4I/IT related T&E policies. f. Provide a member to the TSARC. (See para 9–3.) 2–4. Vice Chief of Staff, Army The Vice Chief of Staff, Army (VCSA) will— a. Serve as a member of the Tri-Service Test and Evaluation BOD Executive Agent (EA) exercising oversight of T&E infrastructure and investments. b.
Serve as the Chair of the T&E BOD EA for a 2-year rotational basis with other service Vice Chiefs and the OSD Director, Operational Test, and Evaluation (DOT&E). 2–5. Deputy Chief of Staff, G–1 The Deputy Chief of Staff, G–l (DCS, G–1 ) will— 3 AR 73–1 • 1 August 2006