34th Annual National Test & Evaluation Conference

The 34th Annual National Test & Evaluation Conference will be held May 15 – 17 at the Emerald Coast Conference Center, Fort Walton Beach, FL. In order for our country to remain the world’s finest fighting force, we need to rapidly generate and sustain a strategic advantage over our adversaries. The Department of Defense is taking steps towards this through reorganization and process reform to speed up the development and deployment of technologically superior weapon systems. What is Test & Evaluation’s role in all of this? How can we help?

The Test & Evaluation (T&E) Division encourages informed dialogue between the private and public sectors on defense T&E issues; champions the development of T&E policies that improve the developmental, operational and live-fire T&E process; and builds partnerships between the private and public sectors. Focusing mainly on developmental, operational and live-fire testing, the division supports an annual symposium, a live-fire T&E event every 18 months and quarterly meetings of NDIA’s Industrial Committee on Test & Evaluation. The division also presents the Walter Hollis Award for Lifetime Achievement in Defense Test and Evaluation, the Arthur Stein Award for Lifetime Achievement in Live-Fire Test and Evaluation and the Tester of the Year Awards.