What We Do
We Deliver Trusted Test and Evaluation for a Transforming Army
ATEC provides independent, data-driven test and evaluation across the capability lifecycle, ensuring the Army fields systems that are safe, effective, survivable, and ready for the demands of multidomain operations. ATEC is fully integrated with Army Transformation and Training Command and Portfolio Acquisition Executives (PAEs), embedding T&E earlier than ever and enabling faster, smarter decisions.
Through safety verification, developmental testing, operational testing, and continuous evaluation, we help the Army reduce risk, accelerate fielding, and deliver capabilities that overmatch any adversary.
SAFETY VERIFICATION
Enabling earlier Soldier feedback through risk-informed safety decisions.
ATEC is modernizing the safety verification process to enable faster, more flexible experimentation and evaluation of emerging Army capabilities.
By streamlining reviews and tailoring safety documentation to the level of risk, ATEC delivers timely safety releases that allow programs and units to test and train with prototypes earlier in their development. This approach preserves rigorous safety standards while reducing unnecessary delay.
DEVELOPMENTAL TESTING
Testing early performance to strengthen system design and reduce risk.
ATEC conducts rigorous developmental testing to assess performance, reliability, interoperability, and safety as systems mature through design and prototyping.
Working closely with developers, we provide early, independent data that helps refine requirements, inform engineering decisions, and ensure programs stay on a path toward capabilities that are ready for operational use.
OPERATIONAL TESTING
Evaluating mission performance with Soldiers in realistic conditions.
Operational testing puts capabilities in the hands of Soldiers and units to assess how well they perform against mission tasks, environmental conditions, and operational threats.
By integrating tests with unit training events and leveraging our enterprise of test centers and ranges, ATEC delivers operationally relevant insights that help Army leaders make confident, risk-informed fielding decisions.
CONTINUOUS EVALUATION
Delivering timely, data-driven insights across the capability lifecycle.
Continuous evaluation integrates developmental test data, operational feedback, modeling and simulation, Soldier touchpoints, and other credible sources into a layered Campaign of Learning.
Aligned with PAEs across the acquisition enterprise, ATEC provides ongoing analysis and rapid reporting that evolve with the system, ensuring senior leaders receive timely, independent information to guide decisions from early development through fielding.