Model–test–model (MTM) is a process that intends to use high-fidelity/high-resolution combat models to simulate and replicate field operational tests. The MTM Process is divided into 5 phases:
Long-term planning – Identify the responsibility among interested organizations Pretest modeling – Modeler creates a model of a subject under test Field test – Modeler performs data gathering of subject under test Post-test modeling – Subject under test model input parameters are matched with subject under test–field–test output values Model validation/accreditation – Modeler provides sufficient evidence to a tester that a simulation adequately replicates field testing
See also Simulation-based acquisition United States Army Test and Evaluation Command United States Army Materiel Systems Analysis Activity
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