3.1 & 3.2 Product Support Business Case Analysis (BCA)

Question 1

OSD and GAO require all ACAT Lv. I,II, and III programs do a (blank)

Answer 1

Product support business case analysis (BCA).

Question 2

The product support BCA is a mandatory part of each program’s what?

Answer 2

LIfe Cyble Support Plan (LCSP)

Question 3

LCSP

Answer 3

LIfe Cyble Support Plan

Question 4

(ASD (L&MR)), AND WHAT relevant document do they maintain

Answer 4

Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel Readiness
The DoD Product Support Business Case Analysis Guidebook

Question 5

Does a Product Support BCA includes non-quantitative factors directly impacting the decision-making process? (Y/N)

Answer 5

Yes

Question 6

A PS-BCA identifies and compares alternatives by examining what?

Answer 6

Financial and non-financial mission and business impacts, risk, and sensitivities.

Question 7

PBL and what does it do?

Answer 7

Performance-Based Logistics
Assesses existing product support strategies to ensure “best value” support during the Operations and Support (O&S) phase for the system.

Question 8

For each Product Support Alternative analyzed in the Product Support BCA, the Software Engineer supports the Systems Engineer by analyzing these seven (7) software-related areas to ensure that:

Answer 8

1. There is a good understanding of the software development environment for cost estimation purposes.
2. The proposed software architecture meets the requirements of Open Systems Architecture (OSA) standards for ease of support.
3. The Intellectual Property (IP) Strategy is used to identify appropriate software data rights for every software application in the solution architecture. The data rights should be examined for best value agreements (part of the OSA requirement).
4. The software support tools required during the product support phase (after Initial Operational Capability (IOC) or Full Deployment (FD)) are identified.
5. The Data Management Strategy is understood; What are the program’s data element rules (governance) for how data is described, cataloged, metadata tagged, adjudicated (when two data elements collide), and managed for software application availability (inputs into the KPP on Availability and KSA on Reliability)?
6. The software code is developed using secure coding practices.
7. That security is built into software architecture from the start.

Question 9

PSM

Answer 9

Product Support Manager