ATECArmy Test & Evaluation Command

WHO WE ARE

On Nov. 18, 1998, the vice chief of staff of the Army approved consolidation of developmental and operational testing. That decision led to the redesignation on Oct. 1, 1999 of the Operational Test and Evaluation Command to Army Test and Evaluation Command.

Central to the consolidation was ATEC assuming overall responsibility for all Army developmental and operational testing. The Test and Evaluation command became a major subordinate command of ATEC and was redesignated the U.S. Army Developmental Test Command, with DTC headquarters remaining at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Also, the Test and Experimentation Command was redesignated the U.S. Army Operational Test Command, with OTC headquarters remaining at Fort Hood, Texas. The third ATEC subordinate command that was redesignated encompassed both the Operational Evaluation Command and the Evaluation Analysis Center, which were combined to form the new U.S. Army Evaluation Center, completing the earlier decision to move developmental and operational evaluation into a single, integrated command.

When working at ATEC, employees become involved with people of many disciplines and receive “hands on” experience with the most sophisticated and advanced technology in the world.

Our staff designs and uses highly accurate and precise instrumentation to test sophisticated military systems under controlled conditions at testing facilities located around the country. Newly assigned personnel become involved in important projects, working closely with a wide range of specialists from other Government agencies and industries.

Today, ATEC is organized into developmental testing, operational testing and evaluation.

OUR LEADERSHIP

MG Gallivan - ATEC

Major General
James J. Gallivan

Commanding General for the U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command

Major General Jay Gallivan was born at Fort Devens, Massachusetts and grew up in the Army. He was commissioned an Armor Officer through ROTC upon graduation from Florida State University in 1992. Prior to joining U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command, he served as the chief of staff for Army Futures Command.

MG Gallivan’s command assignments include deputy commanding general (Operations) for 1st Armored Division and Fort Bliss; commander of the 402nd Field Artillery Brigade and the 5th Armor Brigade; commander of the 1st Battalion, 77th Armor Regiment, 1st Armored Division at Fort Bliss and in Iraq; and company commander of HHC, 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry and D Co, 1st Battalion, 64th Armor in the 3d Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Fort Stewart and in Kuwait.

His key staff assignments include the deputy chief of staff for the National Security Council; the chief of staff for the 1st Cavalry Division; the chief of staff for the 1st Armored Division’s CENTCOM Forward-Jordan; as the senior reconnaissance squadron trainer and senior brigade trainer at the National Training Center; as an interagency and civil support plans officer in USNORTHCOM’s Standing Joint Force Headquarters as well as the deputy executive officer to the Commander NORAD and USNORTHCOM; regimental operations officer in 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fort Carson and Iraq; squadron operations officer in 3d Squadron, 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment in Iraq; and on the Army Staff as a plans officer in the War Plans Division.

MG Gallivan holds a Master’s in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and a Master’s in Security Studies from the United States Army War College.