Vulnerability and lethality assessment: the role of full-up system-level live-fire testing and evaluation / by Martha K. Nelson.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Nelson, Martha K., author.

Contributor:

FRANKLIN AND MARSHALL COLLEGE LANCASTERPA Dept. of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION.

U.S. Army Research Laboratory, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Weapons systems.

Decision making.

Armed Forces--Appropriations and expenditures.

Armed Forces.

Ammunition.

Decision Making.

decision making.

ammunition.

Medical Subjects:

Decision Making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([115] pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD : Army Research Laboratory, April 2000.

Summary:

In this era of decreased defense budgets and limited resources, it is important for decision-makers to determine the optimal strategy for assessing the vulnerability or lethality (V/L) of a weapon system and the role of Full-Up System-Level Live-Fire Test and Evaluation (FU SL LFT & E) in that strategy. This report presents a foundation for a methodology to: (1) identify, measure, and categorize the costs and benefits of FU SL LFT & E; (2) determine the relative significance of FU SL LFT & E to the V/L assessment plan of the weapon system; and (3) compare competing V/L assessment plans for a system. Descriptions of the activities of FU SL LFT & E, the costs and benefits (i.e., impacts) of those activities, the complexities encountered in the reporting of the impacts, and approaches for addressing the complexities are presented. A discussion of the contributions of FU SL LFT & E to a V/L assessment strategy and suggestions for improving the cost-effectiveness of FU SL LFT & E are included. The Taxonomy of the V/L Analysis Process (Deitz and Ozolins 1989) is proposed as a framework for identifying the data voids to be addressed in a V/L assessment plan. The potential of adapting the principles of the Cost as an Independent Variable methodology to the evaluation of competing plans of V/L assessment is explored.

Notes:

"April 2000."

"ARL-CR-450."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-88).

Online resource; title from PDF title page (DTIC. MIL website, viewed September 11, 2019).

Other Format:

Print version: Vulnerability and Lethality Assessment: The Role of Full-Up System-Level Live-Fire Testing and Evaluation

OCLC:

227922567