Air force effort to improve management of ate software development

The Air Force is launching certain efforts under the auspices of the Modular Automatic Test Equipment (MATE) Program to improve its manage ment of ATE software development. The overall effort is entitled the "MATE Software Verifica tion and Validation Task" and is divided into four major subtasks: - The subtask for providing Test Program Set (TPS) Contracting Techniques and Documen tation. - The subtask for providing Software (S/W) V&V tools and procedures. - The subtask for providing a cost trade model for TPS S/W V&V. - The subtask for providing TPS cost tracking tools and procedures.