Applying the System Component and Operationally Relevant Evaluation (SCORE) Framework to Evaluate Advanced Military Technologies

The System, Component and Operationally Relevant Evaluation (SCORE) Framework has been developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology over the past 3 years to provide formative evaluations of advanced military technologies. SCORE is a unified set of criteria and software tools for defining a performance evaluation approach for complex intelligent systems. To date, SCORE has been used to evaluate a wide range of advanced technologies, including soldier-worn sensor systems, technologies allowing real-time multimedia information sharing among soldiers in the field, two-way speech translation systems, and autonomous robotic platforms.