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 RepresentativesThe Office, 2001 - 19 páginas |
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Acceptable risk Accounting Office address technology risks assessing technological maturity believe would indicate best practices Boeing and Lockheed critical design review Defense Acquisition Department of Defense Deputy Under Secretary DOD's eight technologies engineering and manufacturing entering the engineering environment similar Examples include Fighter program office Fighter's critical technologies final aircraft design GAO recommended GAO's independent technology readiness Joint Strike Fighter Lockheed Martin Aeronautics low technical risk manufacturing development contract manufacturing development phase Mature Critical Technologies matured to levels maturity levels obtained detailed briefings planned operational system product development prognostics and health program's acquisition strategy prototype radar relevant environment Secretary of Defense short take-off STRIKE FIGHTER ACQUISITION Strike Fighter aircraft Strike Fighter Design Strike Fighter Program Strike Fighter's critical subsystems take-off and vertical technical maturity technology development technology readiness assessment technology readiness levels U.S. Air Force U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Navy vertical landing weapon system programs Willoughby Templates
Pasajes populares
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...