This one-week course is typically offered twice a year and consists of academic lecture and laboratory exercises. Test and Evaluation is an integral part of the acquisition process.  As such, flight testers need to understand the programmatic aspects of their business.  This course prepares students to manage flight test programs/projects by providing an understanding of the role of T&E within the acquisition process, and the role of T&E within a typical program office.  It examines the requirements process and introduces typical test management issues such as budget management, contractor business environment, schedule management, resources planning, and test item configuration control.  In order to broaden the tester’s horizon, the module also introduces Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) principles, as well as Reliability, Maintainability, Logistics and Availability (RML&A) concepts.  Finally, the module introduces the students to the challenges of testing commercial off the shelf (COTS) systems.