tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21894908.post5348003868468456450..comments2023-11-01T02:19:14.796-05:00Comments on Elements Of Power: Why the Gypsy Woman Laughs at DOT&ESMSgt Machttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08126690689798203866noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21894908.post-10316201296326455032017-09-09T12:55:39.760-05:002017-09-09T12:55:39.760-05:00OObilly,
“DOT&E evaluation” is conducted by co...OObilly,<br />“DOT&E evaluation” is conducted by compiling program reported and tracked program data. 99+% of DOT&E are beancounting auditors with no - or worse yet - ‘stale’ consequential knowledge of key weapon system testing and program priorities. They collate the data as competent civil servant functionaries, but do not write the reports. >1% of DOT&E are political hacks with a questionable grasp of the reality that all programs manage risk, some risk is acceptable, and that risk cannot ever be eliminated even when the program is complete. That >1% write reports which the charter calls for identifying and listing program risk, challenges, and progress but use those reports to promote their own inexpert opinions as fact. Outside of Vulnerability Testing DOT&E could be said to have responsibility for the testing or design of testing NOTHING. They don’t even put Vulnerability testing in its proper perspective (they ignore/marginalize Susceptibility-the other half of Survivability), but present their findings as if they were ALL that mattered.<br />They ‘approve’ service/program OT&E test plans but write nothing. They have no pilots who fly, but cherry pick comments from service pilots who do and frame them in the most negative light possible or overlay their own uninformed opinions on pilot input and assign meaning to them. <br />They are 99+% redundant to the development and test of weapon systems but 100% necessary to those who politicize same. The DOT&E organization was created in a spasm of post-Vietnam Faux Military Reform sentimentality, initially staffed at the top by the Faux Reformers, and subsequently led by defense ‘intellectuals’ with marginal and simplistic views on the subject of complexity who have been approved or endorsed by the same posturing Faux Reform crowd. <br />Born on the noise arising from a skewed view of what would be best described as a philosophical disagreement in test approaches on an isolated Army program at one test facility, it has been a bane to program managers, and service users DoD-wide since its political creation. It is the crown jewel of the Faux Reform (Anti-Defense) idiots on the Left: the end of DOT&E would be the best thing that’s happened for National Security since the Berlin Wall fell. Services and programs would still do OT&E to the end-users satisfaction without the DOT&E at lower cost, and heck of a lot less drama. <br />Until the DOT&E is reformed or disbanded, IMO its major contribution to Defense is making the GAO look competent in comparison. GAO must also realize this, as you would not believe the contortions the GAO went through to rationalize the DOT&E's value. GAO-DOT&E: A self-licking ice cream cone if there ever was one. <br />You may surmise I ran out of cheeks to turn on this topic many programs ago. Mocking what the DOT&E does—and they definitely do not behave as if they know anything of import in doing it is not Ad Hominem. And when I DO use Ad Hominem, it is never ‘fallacious’—because that would make it ‘wrong’. (http://elementsofpower.blogspot.com/2006/02/cautionary-note-on-civility.html)SMSgt Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08126690689798203866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21894908.post-8209440364179292332017-09-09T12:49:44.877-05:002017-09-09T12:49:44.877-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.SMSgt Machttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08126690689798203866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21894908.post-338089820312567262017-09-08T08:00:53.195-05:002017-09-08T08:00:53.195-05:00"Now, If you are a journalist and EVER cited ..."Now, If you are a journalist and EVER cited DOT&E as if they knew WTF they were talking about, then take a large mallet and apply it forcefully to your forehead in penance."<br /><br />Whats a better system than DOT&E evaluation? Are the military pilots flying for them lying? They arent journalists right?<br /><br />you hurl ad hominem around like the fan boys.oobillyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01671350854290918754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21894908.post-82833579271264266742017-08-28T02:55:12.320-05:002017-08-28T02:55:12.320-05:00My inference is that DOT&E is going to be radi...My inference is that DOT&E is going to be radically reformed or abolished. <br /><br />https://www.defense.gov/Portals/1/Documents/pubs/Section-901-FY-2017-NDAA-Report.pdfMarauder2048https://www.blogger.com/profile/17321053619290038492noreply@blogger.com