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TEMAC TE Course Overview

• As of 8 December 2005

TEMAC TE Refresher Course
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TITLE Interrelationships among the TE,
acquisition, and requirements generation
communities to provide effective, timely, and
affordable capabilities to the Warfighter. 
FOCUS AREAS Army TE Fundamentals TE and Army
Transformation Value Added by TE Win-Win for All

All - PM, CBTDEV, Testers, Evaluator, and
Warfighter
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TARGET AUDIENCE
Considerations 1. ATEC has the TE Basic
Course 2. Acquisition Community only has DAU
3. TRADOC has the Army Force Management
School 4. Experience must be considered 5.
Balance topics/subjects amongst three
communities 6. Cost vs Benefits (Study) 7.
Marketing Methods 8. Presentation Methods 9.
ATL Workforce credit Who All members of
acquisition team to include contractors
(that is, prime, sub, and support)

NOTE TEMAC member comment - still not clear as
to the intended target audience.
Several modules are extremely detailed, perhaps
too much so for the general acquisition
community.
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EXISTING PERCEPTIONS
1. PMs distrust TE community/and
vice-versa. 2. Policeman vs. Acquisition
Partner (evaluation). 3. To PMs, IOTE is THE
test. 4. PMs must incorporate proper
balance. 5. ATEC holds back TE info and
plans. 6. Evaluator does not understand
system being evaluated. 7. TE personnel
turnover very disruptive 8. TEMPs do not
address evaluation. 9. Evaluation and testing
are becoming increasingly complex. 10. TE
execution planning becomes more efficient with
less oversight. 11. Evaluators place too much
emphasis on a single test event. 12.
Acquisition Streamlining only benefits a small
of programs. 13. Software Blocking should
improve TE/PM relationship.
among MDA, PEO, TE, ILS, RAM, etc
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Course Objectives
1. Increase commo cooperation between CBTDEVs,
TE, MATDEVs a/ 2. Understand availability of
existing tool kits (methods) 3. Describe
techniques for integrating MS into TE 4.
Illustrate previous lessons learned/best
practices (tools for success) 5. TE investment
prioritization process (budgetary
considerations) 6. Considerations for conducting
system-of-systems TE b/ 7 How does TE focus
on Army Transformation? 8. Increase
understanding and awareness of how ATEC evaluates
systems. 9. Offer win-win negotiation tools
a/ Increase willingness to cooperate
negotiate between PMs TE b/ Software
blocking policy/procedures interoperability
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Interrelationships - A Perspective
TEAMS
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Feedback from aPM 401 Student
TE Practical Exercises. There were many other
cases where interface and interaction with OTE
were one of the key events.  I was pleased with
the TE aspects of this case.  We dealt head-on
with the TE issue (TE is always an issue) but
without any of the usual worst case stuff TE
as the embodiment of evil or ignore TE. I
thought the discussions were balanced and
reasoned.   Bottom Line. I was impressed by how
non-impassioned my classmates were about TE.  I
dont know if the TE community realizes how much
the PM community is willing to work with others,
so long as they dont get sandbagged at the last
minute or asked to test things that are beyond
their program resource scope.
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TEMAC TE Refresher Course
Mission
CDD CPD Requirements
ICD Needs CRD/C4ISP
Analysis KPP/COIC/CTP
TEMP TEMP
TEMP
Acronyms
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TE Refresher Course Reference Material