DOT&E And The Internet

Looks like the Pentagon's operational test and evaluation office has rejoined the Internet age.

For most of the past decade, the Defense Department only released its annual OT&E reports via paper copy, which InsideDefense.com would then dutifully scan and post online.

Apparently, though, DOT&E has changed its tune, as the office's website now has posted every report from 1999 through 2009.

Not only that, DOT&E this week released its 19-page oversight list of the programs the office monitors. Some interesting entries in the last-page "notes" section, particularly for the KC-130J Harvest Hawk aircraft program:

Due to the unique nature of weaponizing this mostly logistics platform we are closely watching the specific challenges of the Hawk (HH) concept. HH should be contained in the KC-130J section of Annual Report.

Click here to read about some of the recent work DOD has been doing on its C-130 aircraft fleet.

As for the Three-dimensional Expeditionary Long-Range Radar program, the DOT&E oversight list has this note:

3DELRR -- add new programs: Armed Scout Helo (Army); Common Vertical Lift Support Platform (USAF); Hellfire (Army); Massive Ordinance Penetrator (USAF).