Acquisition
The effectiveness of the effort's acquisition strategy and the process for implementing and sustaining the strategy.
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Contracting
How the contractural process influences the effort.
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Cost
The risk that a program will not meet its acquisition strategy cost objectives established by the acquisition authority.
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Commerical Off-the-Shelf (COTS)
Commercial items that require no unique government modifications or maintenance to meet the needs of the procuring agency.
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Environmental Aspects
The context in which the program or enterprise operates, the boundaries that constrain it, and any externalities that may influence it.
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Facilities
The organizational technologie, e.g., pland an machinery, required to support the effort.
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Financial/Funding
The process of monetary control being exercised over the effort.
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Health Hazards
The design features and operating characteristics of a system that create significant risks of bodily injury or death.
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Human Factors
The systematic application of relevant information about human abilities, characteristics, behavior, motivation, and performance.
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Logistics Planning
Technical and management activities conducted to ensure supportability implications are considered throughout the acquisition process to minimize support costs.
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Management
The capability to plan, resource, control, and monitor the effort.
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Manpower
The number of military and civilian personnel required and potentially available to operate, maintain, sustain, and provide training for systems.
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Personnel
The cognitive and physical capabilities required to be able to train for, operate, maintain, and sustain material and information systems.
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Programmatic
Pertains to the cost, schedule, and performance characteristics of an acquisition program.
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Requirements
How well a mission requirement can be supported or the validity of a mission-related capability against a threat.
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Resources
The assets needed and available to meet the effort's objectives, including but not limited to personnel, facilities, training, etc.
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Safety
The characteristics of a system that minimize the potential for human or machine errors/failures that cause injurous accidents.
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Schedule
The ability to develop a realistic series of things to be done in sequence of events within given period (timeframe) that fully considers resource usage and availability.
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Software
Computer programs, procedures, and possibly associated documentation and data, pertaining to the operation of a computer system.
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Support
The design characteristics of a system and planned logistic resources that allow for the meeting of system availability and wartime utilization requirements.
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Survivability
The capability of a system and its crew to avoid or withstand a man-made hostile environment without suffering an abortive impairment of its ability to accomplish its designed mission.
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Systems Engineering
A process that includes translating requirements, integrating team inputs, managing interfaces and technical risk, transitioning technology, and verifying that designs meet operational needs.
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Testing
Process by which a system or components are exercised and results analyzed to provide performance-related information.
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Tools
Supporting tools, techniques, etc., required for supporting the effort.
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Training
The instruction/education, on-the-job or unit training required to provide personnel with essential job skills, knowledge, values, and attitudes.
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Areas in Progress:
- Architecture
- "Culture" Change
- Enterprise
- Experimentation
- External Interfaces
- Hardware
- Networking
- Operational Site Activation
- Security
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