By Michael Sirak The Pentagon's chief operational tester is advocating that the services invest more upfront to improve the reliability of new weapons systems so that the costs of maintaining them over their lifetime will be much less. While the big-ticket weapons systems being fielded by the Department of Defense are meeting their effectiveness requirements in operational testing, for the most part, they are falling increasingly short in terms of their suitability objectives, meaning their reliability, maintainability and availability rates,…
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