The Director for Test Systems Engineering and Evaluation (DTSE&E), which was disestablished by US Secretary of Defense on 7 June 1999 and part of its functions are now with the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)

Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E)

The Director, Operational Test and Evaluation is the principal staff assistant and adviser to the Secretary of Defense on operational and live fire test and evaluation activities involving U.S...

, commissioned in 1995 a one year study completed in 1996 to assess the effectiveness of the use of M&S in the weapon systems acquisition and support processes.

The DTSE&E study developed a new approach to acquisition which is called simulation-based acquisition (SBA). Ellen M. Purdy, action officer within Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army for Research, Development and Acquisition (ASA-RDA), was one of several people who analyzed Dr. Sanders' strategy and realized the significant effect such an approach would have on acquisition.

See also

• Modeling and Simulation Coordination Office
• Modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center
  Modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center
  The Modeling and Simulation Information Analysis Center is a United States Department of Defense sponsored Information Analysis Center under the Defense Technical Information Center ....
  
  
• NDIA
• Simulation & Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements, and Training
  Simulation & Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements, and Training
  Simulation & Modeling for Acquisition, Requirements, and Training is a program that was discontinued by the United States Army in 2005.All public access to any SMART-related documents were removed at that time but have started to resurface....