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- Let me give you an example
of a very basic system

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that when we put it into
it's operational environment

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we learned a lot about the system.

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- [Male] Ready, set, Go!

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- [Matthew] Afrotech
conducted a test on a tactical

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air control party radio

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that was to be placed into a Humvee.

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One of the things we did is we simulated

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that Humvee, hid an IED, an
Improvised Explosive Device,

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and the Humvee turned over on its side.

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- [Male] Dude, go!

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Come on, hey.

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- [Matthew] At that point we
told them the enemy was coming,

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strip off your gear and get out,

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and he tried taking off
his vest and his helmet

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and he just couldn't
get the equipment off.

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The radio was in the way.

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What tugged on your heart strings

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was trying to see that
Afrotech tester who was

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playing the role of a J-tacker

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struggling to get past the radio,

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saying 'Help me, I can't
get out, I'm stuck'.

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So we at Afrotech ensure that
when our airmen go to battle,

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they're never placed in a situation

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where they have to say help me,

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I'm stuck and I can't get out.

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Both legislation and
directive was put into place

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to stand up operational test agencies

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that would provide an
independent assessments

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and would represent both
the user and the developer,

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but be in an independent position

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to report directly to their service chief

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with the performance of a weapon system

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in terms of it's
effectiveness and suitability.

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We are different than developmental tests,

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and that we now take that weapon system

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and we rub it in it's
operational environment,

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and that's a very dynamic environment

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where the enemy gets a vote,

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and we see things in the
performance of the weapon system

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that you just may not see
in developmental tests.

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Usually when you put a
weapon system under a

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rigorous operational test,

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you find out things you just didn't expect

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until you put it in those conditions.

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The whole goal is to make
sure that the war fighter

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is not surprised when
he fields the system.

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I'm in the same church, the same pew,

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and I'm reading out of the same hymnal

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as that operational
pilot when he says that

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weapon system has to go under
a rigorous operational test,

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and my promise to him,

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is if it goes under an Afrotech test,

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and we put our seal of
approval on the report,

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that report is trustworthy,
and he can trust the system

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to deliver as we define it in the report.