Application of DOD's VAULTIS data management framework to testing

Music City Center 

The Department of Defense has realigned its approach to data management. Prior to 2020, data was viewed as a strategic risk for the Department. Now it is seen as a strategic asset that will position the Department for joint all-domain operations and artificial intelligence applications. Commensurate with Department-level data policy, Director, Operation Test and Evaluation has published new policy that test programs shall create data management plans to make test data VAULTIS (visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable, and secure). In this briefing, I will motivate the necessity for testers to take an intentional approach to data management, tour the new policies for test data, and provide an overview of the Data Management Plan Guidebook – an approach to planning for test data management that is in line with DOD's VAULTIS framework.

Data Management

System Testing

Test Planning

Department of Defense

Operational Testing 

Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security