SED / Rassa Open Issue: Rapid acquisition and deployment Sep Top SE Issues

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1 NDIA Systems Engineering Division Last updated: 12/8/ # Candidate NDIA SE Division Tasks Assigned Status Disposition/Comments Date Opened Source 1 SED to convene a joint government/industry study, with cross-functional representation including T&E, to develop risk-driven guidance on tailoring SE processes and activities and DoD acquisition requirements from the Defense Acquisition System to achieve rapid acquisition and deployment. SED / Rassa Open Issue: Rapid acquisition and deployment 2 Develop systems engineering expertise through role definition, selection, training, career incentives, and broadening systems thinking into other disciplines. 3 Establish systems engineering job codes or other indicators within government service to emphasize systems engineering in the recruiting of new hires. 4 OSD should establish policy/guidance for services to include systems engineering expertise in RFP/proposal efforts and program start-up teams with reach-back capability. Consideration should be given to integrating this initiative with the OSD transition team concept. Discrete budgets should be allowed for the SE effort and fenced from cuts without a thorough review of the implications. 5 NDIA SED Education and Training Committee should investigate and recommend specific methods and techniques to accelerate the training and development of Systems Engineers to include purposeful OJT rotation programs to complement course work. 6 Provide contract incentives to increase the development of systems engineers on programs. 7 Identify key SE information that decision makers need and develop consistent methods for presenting that information. Establish a working group to determine why proven tools and techniques are not consistently applied. 8 NDIA will create a roadmap that programs can use to facilitate the definition and implementation of a technical measurement process to support engineering management decisions. 9 NDIA should continue a research agenda to investigate causes and effects for program systems engineering success and characterization of SE methods, practices, and solution approaches. Investigate the identification of context factors and how they dynamically interact. Include NAVAIR. E&T / Gelosh Open Issue: SE resources. See SE report for detailed actions (role definitions, training curricula, competency model, certifications). OSD Open Issue: SE resources. OSD Open Issue: SE resources. E&T / Gelosh Open Issue: SE resources. OSD Open Issue: SE resources SEEC / Brown Open Issue: SE practices. See SE report for detailed actions (presenting SE info to PMs/MDAs; SE info template; early SE in S&T) SEEC / Roedler Open Issue: Informed decision-making, measurement. Measurement workshop (Jan/Feb). SEEC / Brown Open Issue: Informed decision-making, measurement SE Effectivness survey. SRCA, etc. Measurement guidance. OSD SED ATC DT&E E&T ESOH EHM 10 NDIA should continue to work with other parties to explore & potentially create a data collection and analysis capability in order to develop technical management benchmarks. Need to create the value proposition that justifies the considerable effort likely required (e.g., OSD/Systems Engineering root cause analysis data base, USC as part of the Systems Engineering Research Center, SEI - Software Engineering Institute, PSM - Practical Software and Systems Measurement). SEEC / Brown Open Issue: Informed decision-making, measurement SE Effectivness survey. SRCA, etc. Measurement guidance.

2 11 Technical Oversight and Issue Resolution: (Industry and Government) Every program needs an organizational capacity for technical oversight vested with the skills, ability, knowledge, responsibility, and authority to make programmatic decisions supporting the technical integrity of the system. An independent path or chain of command for technical authority must be established to raise significant issues, and to balance program authority. 12 There is a need to establish event-based technical reviews with enforced entry criteria and go deeper into technical details. The government PMO (and contractor s programs) must staff these reviews with experienced engineers who can operate somewhat independently of the Program Office and ensure that appropriate technical authority is being applied to the program. The matrix organization (people not directly doing the work) must support peer reviews. OSD Open Issue: Technical Authority Add to SEP guidance. OSD Open Issue: Technical authority NDIA review and update guidance, as needed, for entry/exit criteria and application for consistent rigor in technical reviews. Consistency will need to be flowed through development contracts. 13 Create a career path for senior technical people with broad expertise and wide experience who can see strategic viewpoints that leads to seniority and authority equivalent to the Program Manager and PEO. OSD Open Issue: Technical authority NDIA SE Division discuss with NDIA PM Systems Committee and OSD to determine if there are actions that can be taken through NDIA to support this. 14 NDIA to facilitate a study or working group to characterize SED / Rassa Open Issue: Rapid acquisition and deployment best practices and determine the measured effectiveness of rapid deployment techniques. 15 NDIA to establish a joint industry/government working group to investigate new acquisition approaches that accommodate rapid development. 16 NDIA to provide best practices, in government and industry, that encourage the use of program assist start-up teams working directly with programs to develop comprehensive program plans, processes, and organizational structures. 17 NDIA to provide best practices, in government and industry, that encourage the use of program assist start-up teams working directly with programs to develop comprehensive program plans, processes, and organizational structures. 18 NDIA to develop guidance and assets for improving planning and organization on software-intensive programs, with emphasis on improving the integration of software engineering with systems engineering and other program functions. 19 Government fund ongoing research into scaling software engineering practices and measures for complex systems and systems-of-systems. 20 NDIA and government collaborate on enhanced guidance for software integration and verification, and strengthened approaches for ensuring adequate software quality practices on defense programs. 21 NDIA and government define and communicate best practices for system assurance, and implement mechanisms to ensure their use on defense programs. 22 NDIA to develop guidance on strategies and practices for COTS/NDI usage and verification. SED / Rassa Open Issue: Rapid acquisition and deployment SED / Rassa Open Issue: SW project planning SED / Rassa Open Issue: SW project planning SW Committee / Croll Open Issue: SW project planning OSD Open Issue: SW management practices Complex systems SED / Rassa Open Issue: SW management practices SW integration and verification Sys Assurance / Croll Open Issue: SW management practices System assurance LCS? / Cothran Open Issue: SW management practices COTS/NDI

3 23 Government to promote a product line focus within program offices to bring emphasis to sustainment issues (e.g., training, guidance). 24 Establish a government/industry task group to consider color of money issues and the flexibility that does exist to help mitigate the impact on sustainability. 25 Convene a joint government/industry workshop (including user community) to consider software sustainment issues across the program life cycle. OSD Open Issue: Sustainment LCS? / Cothran Open Issue: Sustainment LCS? / Cothran Open Issue: Sustainment 26 Affordability initiatives: establish WG, committee or task for Rassa / SED Open Initiatives related to OSD Ashton Carter directives. focus on affordability. Collaborate with INCOSE Affordability Seeking chairs and reps (POC: Frank Serna, Garry WG. Roedler, Joe Kusick-Raytheon) 27 Support ONR INP: Automated Aerial Cargo/Utility Systems (AACUS) - similar to Integrated Topside SED / Draper MA / Lohse Open 28 USAF: NDIA engage with AF in development planning MA / Lohse 29 USAF: NDIA SE tradeoff pre-ms B and cost efficiency; MA / Lohse what types of analyses. 30 USAF: NDIA support with Reliability, Maintainability, EHM / Reisig Open Diagnostics. Consider joint working group between LCS / Cothran Enterprise Health Mgmt and Life Cycle Support Review Navy challenges for potential NDIA Tasks SED / Rassa Open ONR POC: John Kinzer, Program Officer, Air Vehicle Technology (ONR 351), john.kinzer@navy.mil, (703) POC: Tom Christian

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