Technical Performance Measure
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Technical performance measures was a term used by the US military to refer to key technical goals that needed to be met, where the technical goals were vital for the functioning of a system in its environment.
A definition given by Dr. Norman Waks, formerly Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
is as follows:
"... the regular demonstration through test or prediction, extrapolation, or other forecasting technique, of the degree of actual or anticipated achievement of selected technical goals or objectives of a system, component, or equipment project/program and an accounting, in the causal sense, for the difference between the result of this status reading and that which was planned, in a fashion which permits appropriate managers to take timely action on indicated problems."
A definition given by Dr. Norman Waks, formerly Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Office of the Secretary of Defense
The Office of the Secretary of Defense is a headquarters-level staff of the Department of Defense of the United States of America. It is the principal civilian staff element of the Secretary of Defense, and it assists the Secretary in carrying out authority, direction and control of the Department...
is as follows:
"... the regular demonstration through test or prediction, extrapolation, or other forecasting technique, of the degree of actual or anticipated achievement of selected technical goals or objectives of a system, component, or equipment project/program and an accounting, in the causal sense, for the difference between the result of this status reading and that which was planned, in a fashion which permits appropriate managers to take timely action on indicated problems."