Joint Testing

The Pentagon's Joint Test and Evaluation Program is calling on the services and other military agencies to nominate efforts in need of testing, according to a recent memo.

"The Office of the Secretary of Defense-sponsored Joint Test and Evaluation (JT&E) Program is requesting joint test nominations (now a biannual process) for the first cycle of fiscal year 2014," a Sept. 3 memo states, adding: "The JT&E Program Manager requests the Services, Joint Staff, combatant commands (CCMD), and other Department of Defense (DOD) agencies provide candidate nominations to the JT&E Program Office (JPO) for consideration no later than November 29, 2013." Further:

Nominations should contain sufficient detail to convince the Planning Committee and JT&E Program Senior Advisory Council (SAC) members that the proposed joint test will significantly improve joint warfighter operations and capabilities. If a nomination package does not contain the required information or sufficient detail, JPO will return the package to the nominator with specific rationale and guidance. JPO will invite the nominator to submit a revised package for consideration during the ongoing joint test nomination cycle. If the nomination package still does not contain all of the required information, JPO will once again return the package to the nominator with specific rationale and guidance, and invite the nominator to submit a new package for consideration during the next joint test nomination cycle.

A "planning committee" will meet on Jan. 29, 2014, to determine which nominations to forward to the JT&E Program Senior Advisory Council for consideration at its meeting the following month, according to the memo.