Intellectual Frontiers

Check That Each Turn of the Loop Started and Ended in the Fight

The Fielding Loop

Use this to check one turn of the loop. Confirm that the turn went from the fight back to the fight and that no stand-in did a warfighter’s step. Worked in “The Fielding Loop Starts and Ends in the Fight.”

The Fielding Loop check for one turn.

Step Who did it What happened (with dates) Warfighter present where the step needs one?

1. Warfighter

2. Observation in training or combat

3. Evidence (Warfighter Evidence Brief)

4. Prototype

5. Exercise with real units (D0–D1)

6. Hardening and certification (Gate Map; production where the Integrator Sort says)

7. Fielding

8. Combat and exercise data

Steps 1, 5, 7, and 8 need the units that fight with the system. If one of those rows names only a staff, a contractor, or a tester, the turn isn’t finished. It is waiting at that step.