{"id":24382,"date":"2022-07-12T19:04:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T19:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2022\/07\/12\/army-test-and-evaluation-command-pushes-to-reduce-full-up-live-fire-tests\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T22:07:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T22:07:15","slug":"army-test-and-evaluation-command-pushes-to-reduce-full-up-live-fire-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/land\/2022\/07\/12\/army-test-and-evaluation-command-pushes-to-reduce-full-up-live-fire-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Test and Evaluation Command pushes to reduce live-fire tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WASHINGTON \u2014 Army Test and Evaluation Command is looking to cut live-fire tests by one-third by 2030 to save money, increase efficiency and accelerate development schedules, according to James Amato, ATEC\u2019s executive technical director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s some fundamental changes that we\u2019ve grown to appreciate in terms of how we need to do test and evaluation under the umbrella of this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2021\/03\/15\/new-army-doctrine-coming-summer-of-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\">multi-domain operations [concept]<\/a>,\u201d Amato told an audience during a recent conference in Arlington, Virginia, focused on Active Protection Systems for vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He said an increasingly dynamic battlefield means the U.S. military has a shorter<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/digital-show-dailies\/ausa\/2020\/10\/12\/at-project-convergence-the-us-army-experienced-success-and-failure-and-its-happy-about-both\/\" target=\"_blank\"> window to decide how to react to attacks<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo how do you go about conducting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/video\/2022\/07\/11\/inside-the-armys-high-tech-gear-testing-facility-defense-news-weekly-full-episode-7022\/\" target=\"_blank\">a realistic, adequate operational test<\/a> in a multidomain environment?\u201d he asked. \u201cIt is a real challenge for us to be able to simultaneously simulate kinetic effects coming in on the Blue Force [Tracker] in a jammed environment, in a contested environment [with] electronic warfare while we\u2019re generating a cyber attack.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blue Force Tracker is a GPS capability that shows information about friendly and hostile military forces location and activity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, as the Army looks to test longer range systems \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2020\/09\/08\/for-the-us-armys-fires-capability-2023-is-the-year-that-will-change-everything\/\" target=\"_blank\">like long-range precision fires <\/a>\u2014 actual test ranges in the U.S. are limited. Access to larger ranges drives up the testing cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More testing must move to the digital world, Amato said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have to figure out how to do this with digital twinning, model-based systems engineering, [modeling and simulation]. You pick the digitized word that you want to use, but we\u2019ve got to figure it out,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Amato said he has challenged ATEC to reduce the live-fire testing of full-up systems \u2014 not components \u2014 by one-third by 2030 and two-thirds by 2035. \u201cNow that\u2019s a stretch goal,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t have any illusions that I\u2019m actually going to make that, but that\u2019s what we put out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ATEC is already using more modeling and simulation capability to augment live-fire testing, an Army spokesperson told Defense News in a July 6 statement. Testing of a completed design tends to be the most expensive part of the test and evaluation process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe quantity and quality of the live-fire shots (data) drives the confidence in the model output,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To reduce live-fire testing at that phase, the Army may turn more to earlier live-fire testing to support system design and development and to improve modeling and simulation fidelity, the spokesperson said. That testing is much less expensive than a full-up system-level live-fire test.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cost savings generated by reducing later live-fire testing depend on the weapons system in development and testing, the spokesperson said, and it is too soon to calculate potential savings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While modeling and simulation cannot completely replace live-fire testing, it can reduce the need for it, the spokesperson said. \u201cA prime example of that is improvements in software and hardware in the loop technology and controlled damage experimentation,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reducing live-fire testing, Amato stressed at the conference last month, also doesn\u2019t mean ATEC is going to go away. \u201cThat just means we\u2019re going to do a lot more with our partners, a lot more in the digital world and a lot more learning in the digital space before we do things 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