DMA test engineers have decades of experience defining Measure of Effectiveness (MoEs), Measure of Performance (MoPs), and associated test events for military aircrafts, vehicles, ships, and support equipment. For example, for testing the AC-130U’s fire control system modification, MoEs/MoPs were established from the AC-130U’s Prime Item Development Specification, including the required Circular Error Probable (CEP) for accuracy of each weapon system on the AC-130U.

 DMA uses proven planning techniques during the development of MoEs/MoPs, including process analysis, design or engineering analysis, matrix analysis, and dendritic analysis. Our planning process is iterative. We use the results of each test to help in the design and planned execution of future tests.

 To support flight testing of military aircraft, DMA developed several Test Instrumentation Data Acquisition Systems. These versatile flight test data recording and acquisition systems utilize various COTS data recorders with interchangeable signal conditioning modules to record test data in the Chapter 10 format. Signal formats supported by DMA collection systems include MIL-STD-1553, ARINC-429, discrete, analog, video, and voice. If required, multiple LCDs allow real-time monitoring during flight and rapid data analysis post flight. A GPS time server provides accurate, high resolution time-stamping of collected data. DMA currently has data collection systems being flown on C-130's.

 In addition to the instrumentation systems and the COTS tools discussed above, DMA has invested independent research and development (IR&D) in creating DMAT, an IRIG-106 Chapter 10 data analysis tool.  DMAT utilizes XML based Interface Control Documents (ICDs) for platforms under test and applies them to Chapter 10 flight test data.  Built-in analysis features of DMAT include the ability to examine the decoded data for specific events or times where user defined conditions were met, automatic detection of system faults that occurred during testing, and statistical analysis of the recorded bus traffic such as message rates and bus loading.  DMA uses this tool in support of all our flight testing and data reduction activities

• Using our own internal R&D funds, DMA developed DMAnalyze, a 1553 Chapter 10 Data Reduction Software Tool.  The tool applies platform specific, XML based ICD, to Chapter 10 formatted telemetry data, which produces readable data in engineering units. DMAnalyze functions include advanced data export, search, fault isolation, and statistical analysis packages.