Weapons Testing

DOD Needs to Plan and Conduct More Timely Operational Tests and Evaluation Gao ID: NSIAD-90-107 May 17, 1990

GAO reviewed how the Department of Defense (DOD) could better perform operational testing and evaluation (OT&E) before starting production of weapons systems.

GAO found that: (1) DOD and the services made little progress in conducting OT&E before production because of a lack of prototypes, concurrent development and production, and the need to initiate production to obtain test articles; (2) those barriers should not preclude earlier OT&E; and (3) the military services generally did not plan early OT&E or incorporate it into acquisition programs.

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