Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Mature Critical Technologies Needed to Reduce Risks : Report to the Chairman, Subcommittee on National Security, Veterans' Affairs, and International Relations, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives

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Página 7 - Aug. 16, 1999). Best Practices: Better Management of Technology Development Can Improve Weapon System Outcomes (GAO/NSIAD-99-162, July 30, 1999).
Página 19 - Regulation 5000.2-R, Mandatory Procedures for Major Defense Acquisition Programs and Major Automated Information System Acquisition Programs.
Página 8 - ... the unknowns in the future. Experience on previous programs has shown that such methods have rarely assessed technical unknowns as a high or unacceptable risk; consequently, they failed to guide programs to meet promised outcomes. Technology readiness levels are based on actual demonstrations of how well technologies actually perform.
Página 2 - ... objective because critical technologies are not projected to be matured to levels that we believe would indicate a low risk program at the planned start of product development...
Página 1 - Such a decision reinforces traditional incentives and increases the likelihood for future problems. 1 Joint Strike Fighter Acquisition: Development Schedule Should Be Changed to Reduce Risks (GAO/NSIAD-00-74, May 9, 2000).
Página 2 - NASA and adapted by the Air Force research laboratory to determine the readiness of technologies to be incorporated into a weapon or other type of system.
Página 10 - Fighter's critical technologies are not projected to be matured to levels that we believe would indicate a low risk program at the planned start of the engineering and manufacturing development phase.
Página 2 - Knowledge Point 1: Requirements and Technology Are Matched Technology development has the ultimate objective of bringing a technology up to the point that it can be readily integrated into a new product and counted on to meet requirements.
Página 12 - ... communicate extensively with customers to match their wants and needs with the firm's available technology and with its ability to manufacture an appropriate product. They have learned not to commit to new products that outstrip their technological know-how. These practices stem from their recognition that resolving technology problems in product development can result in at least a ten-fold cost increase; resolving them in production could increase costs by a hundred-fold. Other practices contribute...

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