The designers and writers of the RPG Millennium Edition believe that you have a specific reason for accessing this document, even if it is just to become familiar with the subject of VV&A. If, on the other hand, you have been assigned a specific VV&A responsibility, you will want to go directly to the information that pertains to your assignment without the burden of reading information that may not pertain directly to you. To make this process as straightforward as possible, the information in the RPG is tiered by level of detail. This organization minimizes the peripheral information in each level and provides significant embedded references and elaborations that allow you to move easily through multiple levels of detail. These additional levels are invoked by exercising hot links embedded in the text. Hot links are identified by underscores.

The menu on the left is persistent and enables you to navigate around the RPG Millennium Edition web site:

· HOME always brings you back to this welcome page.

· SITE MAP provides a graphical layout of the information available on this web site.

· KEY CONCEPTS provides the first level of VV&A information in the RPG. It contains a discussion of models and simulations and the verification, validation, and accreditation (VV&A) of them.

· CORE DOCUMENTS constitute the second level of VV&A information in the RPG. They consist of a discussion of the VV&A activities associated with a legacy, new, or federation M&S from the perspective of the User, the Developer, the M&S Program Manager, the V&V Agent, and the Accreditation Agent.

· SPECIAL TOPICS constitute the third level of VV&A information in the RPG. They are detailed discussions of a variety of VV&A related subjects.

· REFERENCE DOCUMENTS constitute the fourth level of VV&A information in the RPG. These provide more detailed discussions of VV&A related topics.

· EVOLVING TECHNICAL CONCEPTS provides the reader an opportunity to review and comment on emerging VV&A technical initiatives that are currently being researched or discussed in VV&A technical forums.

· DIAGRAMS is a collection of various graphics used in this web site that are useful in understanding the concepts presented.

· TEMPLATES is a collection of templates that the reader may find useful in performing VV&A activities.

· BIBLIOGRAPHY is a composite of all of the references which have been used in the development of the RPG or which are recommended reading within the VV&A community.

· ACRONYMS is a composite of the acronyms used in this web site and provides the identification for each of the acronyms listed.

· GLOSSARY contains definitions for many terms used in the environment of modeling and simulation as well as in VV&A.

· CREDITS identifies the roles of the members of the RPG Millennium Edition Development Team and provides biographical information for each member as well as identification of each member's contribution to the RPG.

· PRINTABLE DOCUMENTS provides a list of RPG documents which have been formatted to be printer-friendly. The printable versions include a table of contents as well as page numbers.

· RELATED WEB SITES provides links for each of the Services' web sites as well as links to other web sites that may be of interest to the reader.

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