INTEGRATED TESTING AND TRAINING INSTRUMENTATION, A REALITY

Abstract

Historically, requirements for instrumentation that supports testing and training have diverged, for a variety of reasons. In general, testing evaluates how well the system or product meets stated operational or contractual requirements, while training evaluates how well the user operates the system in the battlefield environment. Developmental testing evaluates specific system performance characteristics, both to ensure that requirements are met and to establish limits of the capability under development. For these applications, a high degree of instrumentation accuracy is usually required.