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Guidance

DoD Directives and Instructions
♦ DoDD 5141.02 2009 February
♦ DoDI 5000.89 2020 November
General T&E Guidance and Design Guidelines
♦  Test & Evaluation Enterprise Guidebook 2022 August
♦  Validated Scales Repository 2020 July
♦  Guidance for Testing and Evaluating Human-System Interaction 2019 September, memorandum
♦  Memorandum of Agreement on Operational Suitability Terminology & Definitions To Be Used in OT&E, and Supplement 1 2017 August for Supplement 1; original MOA dated 2016 February
♦  Best Practices for Assessing the Statistical Adequacy of Experimental Designs Used in Operational Test and Evaluation 2013 July, memorandum
♦  Flawed Application of Design of Experiments (DOE) to Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) 2013 June, memorandum
♦  Independent OT&E Suitability Assessments 2012 October, memorandum
♦  Guidance on the use of DOE in OT&E 2010 October, memorandum
♦  Reporting of OT&E Results: Measures of Effectiveness vs. Measures of Performance 2010 January, memorandum
♦  Modification of Systems Subject to DOT&E Survivability Testing Oversight 2009 May, memorandum & legislation
♦  Design of Experiments (DOE) in Test and Evaluation 2009 May, memorandum of agreement
♦  Definition of Integrated Testing 2008 April, memorandum
♦ MOA on MOT&E & JT&E 2000 August
♦ Policy on OT&E of Electromagnetic Environmental Effects & Spectrum Management 1999 October, memorandum
Guidance for TEMPs, Test Plans, etc.
♦  DOT&E TEMP Guidebook 3.1 2017 January

♦  DOT&E TEMP Guidebook 3.1, memorandum
♦  DOT&E TEMP Guidebook 3.1, Full PDF
♦  DOT&E TEMP Guidebook 3.1, Web page
Information Technology, Software and Cybersecurity T&E
♦  Procedures for OT&E of Cybersecurity in Acquisition Programs 2018 April, memorandum
♦  Operational Testing of Joint Regional Security Stacks (JRSSs) 2016 August, memorandum
♦  Cybersecurity Testing of Systems Hosted in Defense Information Systems Agency Defense Enterprise Computing Centers 2016 August, memorandum
♦  Cybersecurity Operational Test and Evaluation Priorities and Improvements 2016 July, memorandum
♦  Cyber Economic Vulnerability Assessments (CEVA) 2015 January, memorandum
♦  Guidelines for OT&E of Information & Business Systems 2010 September, memorandum
♦ Software Maturity Criteria for Dedicated OT&E of Software-Intensive Systems 1994 May, memorandum
T&E Strategy and Planning
♦ DOT&E Strategy Implementation Plan – 2023 2023 April
♦ DOT&E Strategy Update 2022 2022 June
Modeling & Simulation
♦ Clarifications on Guidance on the Validation of Models and Simulation used in Operational Test and Live Fire Assessments 2017 January, memorandum
♦ Guidance on the Validation of Models and Simulation used in Operational Test and Live Fire Assessments 2016 March, memorandum
T&E of Space-Based Systems
♦ Guidance on Threat Representation in Operational Test and Evaluation of Space Systems 2016 March, memorandum
System- and Platform-Specific Guidance
♦ Standardization of Hard Body Armor Testing 2010 April, memorandum
Guidance Archive
♦ DOT&E Guidance Archive

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