Davis Paul K. Generalizing concepts and methods of verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) for military simulations

RAND Corp, Santa Monica, CA, 1992. — 66 p.This study was developed for the Defense Modeling and Simulation Office (DMSO), which is under the Director, Defense Research and Engineering. It reflects discussions of the DMSO’s Applications and Methodology Working Group, chaired by the author during this work. The study also draws upon discussions at two special meetings on verification, validation, and accreditation (W&A) sponsored by the Military Operations Research Society (MORS) on October 15-18, 1990, and March 31-April 2, 1992. W&A is a difficult subject on which there is a broad range of opinions and practices (for example, W&A of software used in space probes is different from W&A of military simulations used for analysis). At the same time, a considerable convergence of view appears to be taking place and it is hoped that this study will accelerate that process. Comments and suggestions are therefore especially welcome. They can be sent by electronic mail to Paul_.Davis@rand.org through Inter Net.
Work on this effort was accomplished in the Applied Science and Technology program of RAND’s National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Staff.