What is "model-test-model"

Model–test–model (MTM) is a process that intends to use high-fidelity/high-resolution combat models to simulate and replicate field operational tests. The MTM Process is divided into 5 phases:

• Long-term planning – Identify the responsibility among interested organizations
• Pretest modeling – Modeler creates a model of a subject under test
• Field test – Modeler performs data gathering of subject under test
• Post-test modeling – Subject under test model input parameters are matched with subject under test–field–test output values
• Model validation/accreditation – Modeler provides sufficient evidence to a tester that a simulation adequately replicates field testing