The Pentagon's Director of Operational Test and Evaluation plans to award a series of contracts next month that will begin development of the T&E capabilities needed to support advanced weapon systems, DOT&E officials told InsideDefense.com today. DOD's current testing capabilities are already strained, and T&E capabilities could become inadequate because "transformation initiatives will soon result in high-technology systems that cannot be adequately tested with the current test infrastructure," according to Pentagon testing officials. DOT&E's fiscal year 2001 annual report to...
