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Weapon Analyst – Live Fire Test and Evaluation Help test weapons, body armor, and vehicles for weapon lethality and survivability, to demonstrate that they will work in combat, defeat targets, provide protection, and save lives. The Live Fire Test and Evaluation (LFT&E) team in the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) Operational Evaluation Division (OED) provides independent and objective evaluations of the lethality and effectiveness of new or upgraded DoD weapons systems.  Key to this is ensuring that adequate Live Fire Testing (LFT) – firing of actual weapons against representative targets - is conducted on every major system before it is fielded.  Live fire testing is inherently destructive, so the ability to carefully plan and optimiz