Sustainment:
The Sustainment Evaluation Directorate (SED) serves as the Army’s independent evaluator, conducting the continuous evaluation program for Combat Support and Combat Service Support acquisition programs. Plans, conducts and reports independent evaluations of Army, Multi-service, and Joint programs, to include Chemical-Biological, Quartermaster, Ordnance, Transportation, Military Police, Engineer, and Soldier systems, rapid fielding initiatives, demonstrations and experiments, to provide essential information to decision makers throughout regular acquisition lifecycles and compressed decision timelines. Provides integrated evaluations of materiel programs for milestone decisions, materiel changes and materiel releases in support of the acquisition process. Develops the evaluation strategy, coordinates the test design, and evaluates results, to address operational effectiveness, suitability and survivability, for standard acquisition and rapid fielding initiatives.



