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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big cuts at DOT&E (who needs oversight, we can trust the contractors to deliver, right?) probably means significant impact to a whole division at IDA. I feel sorry for all the people I know there, most of whom do good and necessary work with little appreciation, but this wasn’t exactly unforeseen. [/quote]

How big?[/quote]

https://media.defense.gov/2025/May/28/2003725153/-1/-1/1/MEMORANDUM-DIRECTING-REORGANIZATION-OF-THE-OFFICE-OF-THE-DIRECTOR-OF-OPERATIONAL-TEST-AND-EVALUATION.PDF[/quote]

Don't the services do test and evaluation? Why does the office even need to exist?[/quote]

Joint acquisition was tested and evaluated by OSD DOTE. Service-unique was tested and evaluated by that service. DOTE was not duplicative testing because a lot of acquisition is joint. [/quote]

saves lives, too

I don't understand the difference. Can you explain more? Also, PP says a whole division at IDA does work for DOTE. Is IDA the only contractor DOTE works with?[/quote]

Service specific things are bought by a particular service, often through a "Systems Command".  Other things are bought by OSD/A&S because those other things are joint instead of service-specific.

As different poster noted, DOTE also maintains shared / joint test and evaluation resources - because that sharing saves money and avoids duplication.

Bottom line is that DOTE exists because it saves taxpayer dollars compared with abolishing it. [/quote][/quote]

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