2014 Major American Weapons Systems: Report of the Pentagon's Testing Director - Army, Navy, Air Force Programs, F-35, Ballistic Missile Defense, Aegis, Missiles, Submarines, Aircraft Carriers

by Progressive Management

Overview

This report from the Pentagon's Operational Test and Evaluation Director was issued in January 2014 and contains extensive detailed information about over 100 major weapons systems under development by the Department of Defense, Army, Navy, and Air Force - including such consequential systems as the F-35 and BMD. The United States' Department of Defense (DoD) acquires some of the most complex systems known. Because of this complexity, they often require many years of development and testing; and if not tested properly, we run the very serious risk of delivering poorly performing equipment to the warfighter. Our Airmen, Sailors, Marines, and Soldiers rely on these systems to be effective, suitable, survivable, and lethal. Because in many respects their lives depend on weapons systems that work, it is essential that adequate testing is done to fully characterize those systems' capabilities and shortcomings across all of the relevant operational conditions in which the system is anticipated to be employed. Such characterization is needed in part so that well-informed acquisition and development decisions can be made, but also so the men and women in combat understand what these systems can and cannot do.

AC-130J Ghostrider * Acoustic Rapid Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) Insertion (A-RCI) * Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) Satellite Communications System * Aegis * AGM-88E * AIM-9X * AIM-120 * AMDR * Air Operations Center * AN/BLQ-10 * AN/BYG-1 * AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 * Armored Tactical Vehicles * ABIS * BMDS * BCS-F * Bradley * CH-47F (Chinook) * Cobra Judy Replacement * C2BMC * CLFA * CANES * CEC * Anti- torpedo Torpedo (CAT) * CV-22 Osprey * DDG 51 Flight III Destroyer * DDG 1000 - Zumwalt * DEAMS * DRRS * DCGS * ABIS * E-2D * EA-18G * Enhanced Combat Helmet (ECH) * F-15E Radar * F-22A * F-35 * F/A-18E/F * Fire Scout * Ford Class Carrier * Global Broadcast System (GBS) * Global Command and Control System - Joint (GCCS-J) * Global Hawk * G/ATOR * GMD * H-1 Upgrades * Handheld, Manpack, and Small Form Fit (HMS) Manpack Radio * HC/MC-130J * Identification Friend or Foe (IFF * Integrated Defensive Electronic Countermeasures * iEHR * JASSM-ER * JBC-P * JBTDS * JHSV * JIE * JLENS * JLTV Family of Vehicles (FoV) * JMPS-AF * JSpOC * Joint Warning and Reporting Network (JWARN) * KC-46A * KMI * LHA-6 * Light Armored Vehicle (LAV) * Littoral Combat Ship * LPD-17 * M109 Family of Vehicles (FoV) Paladin * Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP) * MH-60R Multi-Mission Helicopter * MH-60S * MRAP * MALD * Mission Planning System (MPS) * Mk 48 * Mk 54 * Mk248 Mod 0 Sniper Round * MQ-4C Triton * MQ-9 Reaper * Multi-Static Active Coherent (MAC) * Navy Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) * Nett Warrior * Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) * Next Generation Diagnostics System (NGDS) * Ohio Class Replacement * Osprey * P-8A Poseidon * Paladin Integrated Management (PIM) * Patriot Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) * Precision Guidance Kit (PGK) * Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) * Q-53 Counterfire * Remote Minehunting System (RMS) * Rifleman Radio * RQ-4B Global Hawk * San Antonio Class Amphibious Transport * Sensors * Ship Self-Defense * Small Tactical Unmanned Aerial System (STUAS) * SBIRS * Spider XM7 Network Command Munition * SSN 774 Virginia Class Submarine * Standard Missile-6 (SM-6) * Stryker Mobile Gun System (MGS) * Surface Ship Torpedo Defense (SSTD) System * Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) * THAAD * Theater Medical Information Program - Joint (TMIP-J) * Tomahawk Missile and Weapon System * Torpedo Warning System (TWS) * Vertical Take-Off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (VTUAV) (Fire Scout) * Virginia Class Submarine * Warfighter Information Network

Product Details

BN ID:	2940045670968
Publisher:	Progressive Management
Publication date:	02/02/2014
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	560 KB

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