Flight test in Patuxent River is making positive and dramatic moves to incorporate the team concept into all flight test programs. 'Up front and early' has replaced 'kick it over the fence' as the basic flight test philosophy. In a world where tradeoffs between cost, schedule, and performance drive the entire acquisition process, the team concept is gaining strength. The product continues to be better and better as potential problems are averted on many programs earlier and earlier. Early problem identification and resolution are saving millions of dollars, and are enabling a much higher mission performance and safer aircraft for the flight test program and the end fleet user. There are still many challenges ahead. Teaming is an evolutionary concept whose time has come, but the evolution is not complete. A few more years are required to institutionalize the changes developed over the last decade. While the fleet continues to press crew concept, CRM/ACT, and teaming throughout the various communities, teaming has certainly found a home in Navy flight test and indeed the entire acquisition community. With continued reductions I programmatic cost and schedule, and increases in system safety and performance that teaming brings to the table, it is definitely here to stay.
Evolution of the Teaming Concept in Naval Aviation Flight Test
1999
9 pages
Report
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Englisch
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