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What are Joint Acquisition Programs? Answer✔✔: Joint Acquisition Programs is any acquisition system, subsystem, component, or technology program with a strategy that includes funding by more than one DoD component during any phase of a system's life cycle. Who decides to place programs under joint acquisition management? Answer✔✔: The MDA decides whether to place programs under joint management and designates the lead executive DoD component. What law requires an analysis of potential opportunities of international cooperation? Answer✔✔: 10 USC 2350a(e) requires international cooperation consideration in the initial acquisition strategy for a program. When international programs may be established in the defense acquisition program Answer✔✔: Decision to include international partners needs to be included during development of the initial capabilities document but no early than the material and solution analysis phase. When is Earned Value Management (EVM) implemented Answer✔✔: EVM is part of program management. It ensures that cost , schedule and technical aspects of the contract are truly integrated. In what type of contracts EVM is required Answer✔✔: EVM is required on Cost, and/or Incentive contracts valued at greater than $20M. What is EVM? Answer✔✔: Earned Value Management is a tool that
- Relates the scope of the work to its associated budgets and schedule.
- Measures the work progress in objective terms
- States that value of the work completed in dollars and other measurable units. What are EVM techniques? Answer✔✔: Correlate the budgeted cost of worked scheduled with the budget cost of work performed (BCWP)
- 0/100 Earned Value Technique
- Percent Start/Percent Finish EV Technique (50/50) (25/75) (80/20)
- Percent Complete
- Units Completed
- Equivalent Units Describe the Percent Start/Percent Finish EV Technique Answer✔✔: Is an objective earned value technique tied to the start and completion of a work package task, often referred to % assigned to the start and finish milestone such as (50/50...) Thsi technique tends to overstate performance in the first half of the period of performance and uderstate performance in the last half.
What is the most important step in EVM system? Answer✔✔: Is the establishment of the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB)or the Budgeted Cost of Work Schedule (BCWS) What is the PMB in and EVM? Answer✔✔: The PMB includes the undistributed budget, all summary level planning package budgets, and all control account budgets. It does not include management reserve. What is the final step of the PMB? Answer✔✔: Is to classify work, to allocate the budget and to time phase the control account work package budgets. This last phase is calculate BWCS How do we classify work packages in EVM? Answer✔✔: in 3 categories, Discrete, apportioned effort, and level of effort. Describe the realignment of the PMB Answer✔✔: Rebaselining, Replanning, and Reprogramming What is Reprogramming? Answer✔✔: Reprogramming is a comprehensive realignment of the remaining performance measurement baseline that results in a total budget and/or total schedule that exceeds the contractual requirements. It is the process that results in an Over-Target Baseline or OTB and an Over-Target Schedule OTS. Schedule Performance Index (SPI) formula Answer✔✔: SPI=BCWP/BCWS Estimate at Completion (EAC) formula Answer✔✔: EAC=ACWP+[(BAC- BCWP)/(Performance Factor)] EAC Compsite formula Answer✔✔: ACWPcum+[(BAC-BCWPcum)/(CPIcum*SPIcum)] Upper Value (worst case) EVM Terminology Answer✔✔: EAC=Estimate at Completion BAC=Budget at Completion(current) BCWS=Budget Cost of Work Scheduled (current) BWCP=Budget Cost of Work Performed (earned value) ACWP=Actual Cost of Work Performed What is the Contractor Cost and Software Data Reporting (CSDR) Answer✔✔: The CSDR system involves two formal contractor reports, the COntractor Cost Data Report (CCDR) and the Software Resources Data Report (SRDR) What is Contract Performance Report (CPR) Answer✔✔: The PM should obtain from the contractor a CPR (DD form 2734) on all contracts the meet or exceed EVMS dollar
Who provides the forum for approving acquisition category IAM milestones Answer✔✔: The Information Technology Acqusition Board Who assigns a joint potential designator Answer✔✔: The JROC is chaired by the Vice Chairman JCS reviews programs designated as JROC interest and supports the acquisition review process. What is the IPT Answer✔✔: Team composed of representatives from appropriate functional disciplines working together to build successful programs. How may types of IPTs Answer✔✔: Overarching Integrated Product Teams (OIPTs) Working-level IPTs (WIPTs) Program-Level IPTs (PIPTs) For acquisition category ID and IAM programs how many types of of IPTs Answer✔✔: OIPT WIPT Who leads the OIPT? Answer✔✔: Director, Defense Systems or Deputy to the ASD(NII) for C41SR will lead the OIPT for acqusition category ID The Deputy to the ASD(NII) for C41SR and IT acqusition leads OIPT acqusition category IAM. Who prepares the Independent Cost Estimate (ICE) Answer✔✔: 10 USC 2434 requires that an independent cost estimate be prepared and provide to the MDA. The OSD CAIG prepares the ICE. Who reports current estimate of each Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) periodically to the MDA Answer✔✔: The PM reports current estimates of Cost, Schedule and Performance of APB What happens when the current estimate for the program indicates that Cost, schedule or Performance will not be achieved Answer✔✔: The PM will notify the MDA within 30 days of ocurrence and action to bring the program back within baseline. What is the Selected Acquisition Report (SAR) Answer✔✔: The SAR reports the status of total program cost, schedule and performance as well as program unit cost and unit cost breach information. At what % should the SECDEF reports to congress increases abpove the baseline in the Program Acquisition Unit Cost (PAUC) and the Average Procurement Unit Cost (APUC) Answer✔✔: 15% or more above the baseline.
When USD(AT&L) considers SAR reporting terminated Answer✔✔: When 90% of expected production deliveries or planned acquisition expenditures have been made. What does test & Evaluation do? Answer✔✔: Test & Evalauation (T&E) is used to identify and learn about deficiencies (technical and operational) so that they can be resolved prior to production and deployment What does Developmental test and Evaluation (DT&E) ensures? Answer✔✔: Ensures that performance capability and reliability are designed into the system early. DT&E increases robust, system-level and system of systems level testing and evaluation, to ensure thesystem has matured to a point where it can meet IOT&E and operational employment requirements. Whar does DT&E reduces? Answer✔✔: Reduces technical risk and risk mitigation requirements. M&S and DT&E Answer✔✔: Modeling & Simulation and Developemtal Tes & Evaluation are integrat and inseparable parts of the acquisition program M&S Accreditation in T&E Answer✔✔: M&S used in T&E must be accredited by the user (PM or OTA). Accreditation can be achieved by a robust Verification, Validation and Accreditation (VV&A). Operation Test & Evaluation Answer✔✔: Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) is conducted to determine system operational effectiveness, suitability and survivability. What does Live Fire Test & Evaluation (LFT&E) has? Answer✔✔: LFT&E has a statutory requirement (10 USC 2366). The ability of personnel to survive should be addressed even in cases where the platform can not survive. What is Test & Evaluation Strategy (TES) Answer✔✔: The TES is an early T&E planning document completed before Milestone A. It describes the T&E activities strating with technology development. How the TES is applied? Answer✔✔: For programs following an evolutionary acquisition strategy, the TES should describe how T&E and M&S would be applied to confirm that each increment provides its required operational effectiveness, suitability and survivability. Who approves the TES Answer✔✔: The USD(AT&L) and the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) approve the TES for all programs on the OSD T&E oversight list. What is the Test & Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) Answer✔✔: It describes the required type and amount of test and evaluation events and resource requirements.
Net-centricity Answer✔✔: Is the realization of a robust , globally enviroment (interconnecting infrastructure, systems, processes and people) within which data is shared seamlessley and in a timely manner among users, applications, and platforms What are Net-Centricity four goals Answer✔✔: Reach, Richness, Agility, and Assurance. Supportability Answer✔✔: Is the ability of systems and infrastructure components, external to a specific IT or NSS to aid, protect or sustain the design, development , testing, training or operations of the IT or NSS to achieve its required operational and functional capabilities. After Milestone C Answer✔✔: The OASD NII reviews all ISP documents for acquisition category I and IA programs and other programs of OASD NII interest. Electromagnetic Spectrum Considerations Answer✔✔: The PM must consider the ES when delivering capability to the warfighters or business domains. The fundamental questions are if and how the system or equipment being developed will depend or interact with ES Defense Business System Management Committee Approval (DBSMC) Answer✔✔: For defense business system acquisition programs that have modernization funding exceeding $1M, the MDA shall not grant any milestone or full rate production approval anf the authority to obligtate funding shall not be granted until certification under 10USC 2222(a) has been approved by DBSMC The Clinger Cohen Act Answer✔✔: The Clinger Cohen Act alos known as IT Management Reform Act. is designed to improve the way the federal government acquires and manages information technology. It also created the CIO function. COTS Answer✔✔: Net centricity business transformation and E-government require the use of COTS information technology solutions to the maximun practical extent. COTS are commercial items require no unique government modificatins over the life cycle of the product. What is Net-Centricity main approach Answer✔✔: This approach uses the Global Information Grid as the organizing and transforming construct for managing IT through the acquisition of systems and families of systems that are secure, reliable, interoperable, and able to communicate across a universal information technology infrastructure What is the Global Information Grid (GIG) Answer✔✔: The GIG is the organizing and transforming construct for managing information technology (IT) throughout the DoD.
What are the 3 perpsectives of the Global Information Grid (GIG) Answer✔✔: Vision, Implementation and Architecture What is the Information Support Plan (ISP) Answer✔✔: The Information Support Plan (ISP) formerly called the Command , Control, Communication, Computers, and Intelligence Support Plan (C4ISP) is intended to explore the inforrmation related needs of an acquisition program in support of the operational and functional capabilities the program delivers. What happens before Milestione A Answer✔✔: ISP is not required What happens before Milestone B Answer✔✔: Ensure Information Supportability is addressed in the ISP Submit the ISP for formal coordination at stages I and II What happens before Milestione C Answer✔✔: Submit a final Stage III version of the ISP for retention in the OASD(NII) Joint C41 Program Assessment Tool (JCPAT) repository What happens after Milestone C Answer✔✔: Submit an updated ISP for each major upgrade Who is the Life Cycle Manager Answer✔✔: The Program Manager Program Manager Responsibilites Answer✔✔: Provides product support capabilities to maintain readiness, sustainment and operation of a system. Span of Life Cycle Sustainment planning and execution. Answer✔✔: It spans a system's entire life cycle from materiel solution analysis to disposal. A life cycle sustainment plan (LCSP) is prepared at what milestone Answer✔✔: Milestone B What is configuration management Answer✔✔: is a process for establishing and mantaining the consistency of a product's physical and functional attributes with its design and operational information throughout its life. When does a system enter the acquisition process Answer✔✔: A system formally enters the acquisition process at mileston B, when Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) approval permits the system to enter the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase. This is the most critical timeframe to optimize system sustaiment through designed-in criteria.
Habitability Domain Answer✔✔: Are those factors necessary to sustain morale, safety, health, and comfort of the user population. They contribute to personnel effectiveness and mission accomplishment , and often preclude recruitment and retention problems. DoD Inst 5000.2 requirements Answer✔✔: as required by DoD instruction 5000.2, the program manager shall employ human factors engineering to design systems that require minimal manpower. Human Systems Integration Answer✔✔: HSI should be a key consideration during the formation of IPTs. Human factors engineers should be included as members of systems engineering and design teams and other IPTs. What are the Domains of Human System Integration Answer✔✔: Manpower Personnel Training Human Factors Safety and Occupatinal Health Personnel Survivality Habitability Affordability Assessments Answer✔✔: For major defense acwusition programs and major automated information system programs, affordability assessments are required at milestones B and C Full Funding Answer✔✔: Full funding is assessed by the MDA at each decision point. As part of this assessment, the MDA reviews the actual funding (most recent PB) in comparison to the (time-phased) program office cost estimate. Cost as an Independent Variable (CAIV) Answer✔✔: Cost in this context refers to lifecycle costs, which should be treated as equally important to performance and schedule in program decisions. Acquisition System Cost Answer✔✔: As programs mature (transition to sustainment), cost estimates that support the acqusition system or program management in many cases may need to be expanded in scope to embrace total cost concepts. Role of AoA Answer✔✔: For ACAT I or above acquisition programs, an AoA is required at major milestone decision points and at the full rate production decision. AoA plan Answer✔✔: Intro Ground rules Alternatives Determination of Effectiveness Measures Effectiveness Analysis Cost Analysis
Cost-Efectiveness Comparisons Organization and Management Assessing Risk and Sensitivity Answer✔✔: demonstrate how the cost estimate would change if one or more assumptions change Quantitative Risk Analysis Answer✔✔: provides a broad overall assessment of variability in the cost estimate. In risk analysis, selected factors are described by probability distributions. This helps assess the aggregate variability in the overall estimate due to variability in each input probability distribution, typically through Monte- Carlo simulations.... Cost Analysis Improvement Group (CAIG) Answer✔✔: 10 USC 2434 requires that an independent life cycle cost be prepared and provide to the milestone decision authority (MDA) before the approval of a major defense acquisition program to proceed with either E&MD or production & deployment. Independent life cycle cost estimates Answer✔✔: DoD Directive 5000.4 requires ICE be assigned to OSD Cost Analysis Improvement Group Program Manager Answer✔✔: PMs are responsible for providing the needed product support capability to maintain the readiness, sustainment, and operation of a system. Life-Cycle Sustainment Answer✔✔: Life Cycle Sustainment, planning and execution seamlessly spam a system's entire life cycle, from material solution analysis to disposal . Life-Cycle sustainment plan Answer✔✔: a LCSP shall be prepared for milestone B. Configuration Management Answer✔✔: CM is a process for establishing and maintaining the consistency of a product's physical and functional attributes with its design and operational information throughout its life. Acquisition Answer✔✔: A system formally enters the acquisition process at milestone B when MDA approval permits the system to enter the EMD phase. This is the most critical timeframe to optimize system sustainment through designed-in criteria Post IOC product support strategy assessments Answer✔✔: The DoD components conduct post deployment reviews, periodic assessments of system support strategies vis-a-vis actual vs. expected levels of performance and support. Performance Based Life Cycle Support Answer✔✔: Application of PBL may be at the system, subsystem or major assembly level depending on program unique circumstances and business case analysis (BCA), an expanded cost/benefit analysis with the intent of determining a best value solution for product support.
- Implementation
- Integration
- Verification
- Validation
- Transition Systems of Systems Engineering Answer✔✔: Deals with planning, analyzing, organizing, and integrating the capabilities of a mix of existing and new systems into a system of systems having capabilities greater than the sum of the capabilities of the constituent parts. Evolutionary Acquisition Programs Answer✔✔: Undergo additional review (a MS B decision for each increment) Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) Answer✔✔: The purpose of the Analysis of Alternatives is to asses the potential material solution to satisfy the capability need documented in the approved Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) AoA guidance Answer✔✔: The AoA study shall guide the AoA and Material Solution Analysis phase activity. AoA focuses on identification and analysis of alternatives, measures of effectiveness, cost, schedule, concepts of operations and overall risk AoA Assessment Answer✔✔: The AoA assess the Critical Technology Elements (CTEs) associated with each proposed material solution, including technology maturity , integration risk, manufacturing feasibility, and technology maturation and demonstration needs to achieve best system solution When does the material solution analysis phase ends? Answer✔✔: when the AoA has been completed, and a material solution option for the capability need is identified in the approved ICD. Milestone A Answer✔✔: The Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) reviews the proposed material solution and the draft technology development strategy (TDS) When does the Technology Development phase begins Answer✔✔: When the MDA approves a material solution and the TDS and has documented the decision in an acquisiton decision memorandum (ADM) What is the purpose of the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) phase Answer✔✔: To develop a system or an increment capability, complete a full system integration, develop an affordable and executable manufacturing process, ensure operational support minimizing logistical footprint, implement human systems interaction, design for productibility, ensure affordability.
When does EMD begin Answer✔✔: It begins at Milestone B which is the initiation of the acquisition program Modeling and Simulation (M&S) Answer✔✔: A tool to support the collaborative process, to exchange data, consider alternatives such as operational concepts, conceptual design, cost, and technology strategies) and view potential resulting capabilities. In what phase can M&S be used effectively Answer✔✔: M&S can be used during the Technology Development Phase to help reduced technology risk and determine an appropriate set of technologies to integrate into a full system. Name a key aspect of the EMD phase Answer✔✔: The integration of the new technologies with legacy, current, and future systems What happens during the Production and Development Answer✔✔: M&S allows system designs to be electronically transmitted to the manufacturing shop floor. What happens in the Operations and Support phase Answer✔✔: End-User innovation and feedback on the operational performance of a system and its role in a Familiy of Systems (FoS) or System of Systems (SoS) Who chooses the lead chief enginner for programs Answer✔✔: the Program Executive Officer (PEO) LRIP Answer✔✔: Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) What is the POM Answer✔✔: The programming phase begins with the Program Objective Memorandum (POM). It provides a fairly detailed and comprehensive description of the proposed programs, including allocation of resources by program projected six years into the future. What is an RMD Answer✔✔: Funding shortfalls in the POM and propose alternatives with marginal adjustments to resources. Issues not resolve at a lower level are forward to the secretary for decision. The results are published in the Resource Management Decision (RMD) What is the purpose of the RMD Answer✔✔: Proposes financial adjustments to addresses issues identified during the budget hearing. The RMD are staffed for comment and forwarded to the DEPSECDEF for decisions. Who leads the QDR Answer✔✔: Once the new administration National Security Strategy is established, the Secretary of Defense in consultation withh CJCS leads the QDR
