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What document proposes financial adjustments to address any issues or problems identified during the associated budget hearing?
Resource management document RMD
What is a comprehensive review of all elements of defense policy and strategy needed to support the national security strategy
Quadrennial defense review QDR
The Q DR final report is provided to Congress when
In the second year of the administration
What system is supported by robust analytic processes to identify capability gaps and potential solutions
Joint capabilities integration and development system JC I DS
What does JC IDS define
Inter-operable, joint capabilities that will best meet future needs
Who reviews and validate all joint capabilities integration and development system documents and when is this done
The joint requirements oversight council JR OC; review is done prior to milestone a
Who chairs the JROC
The vice chairman of the joint Chiefs of staff
Which stages of the defense acquisition system our pre-systems phases
Material solution analysis and technology development
Who is the MDA for ACAT I-D
USD AT&L
Who is the MDA FOR ACAT I-C
USA AT&L
Who is the MDA for ACAT IA-M
USD CIO
Who is the MDA FOR ACAT IA-C
USA CIO
What is the evolutionary acquisition approach
The product changes or improvements throughout the acquisition process
What is single step acquisition approach
The product remains the same throughout the acquisition process
True or false: the Department of Defense may not obligate funds for a major Defense acquisition program after the program enters system development and demonstration without a milestone decision authority approved baseline unless the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics specifically approved obligation.
True
The program manager may treat the difference between an objective and it’s associated threshold as a what, subject to an agreement by the user
Trade space
What is the over arching process that a program team applies to transition from a stated capability need to and operationally effective and suitable system
Systems engineering
What is the integrating mechanism across to technical efforts related to the development, manufacturing, verification, deployment, operations, support, disposal of, and user training for systems and their lifecycle processes
Systems engineering
Who prepares a systems engineering plan (SEP) and for which milestone review is it prepared
Program manager; for each milestone review beginning with milestone a
True or false, the concepts of I PPD and integrated product teams IPT shall be applied throughout the acquisition process to the maximum extent practice ago
True
One of the key I PPD tenets is what
Multidisciplinary team work through integrated product teams
All acquisition category ID and IAM Programs will have what to provide assistance, oversight, and review as the program proceeds through its acquisition lifecycle
OIPT - over arching integrated project team
What does the integrating integrated product team I IPT do
Coordinates the activities of the W IPT and reviews issues they do not address
What is the purpose of the working level integrated project team W I PT
W I PT should meet as required to help the program manager plan program structure and documentation, and resolve issues
With activities provided the basis for evaluating and selecting alternatives when decisions need to be made
Decision analysis
True or false: decision analysis involves selecting the criteria for the decision and the methods to be used in conducting the analysis
True
Who institutes requirements management
The program manager
What are the three reasons for instituting requirements management
Maintain the traceability of all requirements from capabilities means; Document all changes to those requirements; and record the rationale for those changes
Which efforts result in a complete audit trail of decisions and design modifications
Configuration management
Which process confirms that the system element meets the design-to or build-to specifications; did you build it right?
The verification process
Which process answers the question is it the right solution to the problem
The validation process
This deals with planning, analyzing, organizing, and integrating the capabilities of a mix of existing and new systems to achieve a capability greater than the sum of the capabilities of the constituent parts
System of systems engineering
This is basically a grouping of systems having some common characteristics; it does not create capability be on the additive some of the individual capabilities of its members systems
A family of systems
This ends when the AOA has been completed, material solution options for the capability need identified in the approved ICD have been recommended by the lead DOD component conducting the AOA , And the phase specific entrance criteria for the initial review milestone have been satisfied
The material solution analysis phase
During technology development and succeeding acquisition phases the program manager shall give whom the maximum practical opportunity to participate
Small businesses
Engineering and manufacturing development begins at which milestone, which is normally the initiation of an acquisition program
Milestone B
Use of these items offers significant opportunities for reduced development time, faster insertion of new technology, and lower lifecycle cost
Commercial off-the-shelf items
This systems engineering tool is an essential element of the total systems engineering process
Modeling and simulation
For major defense acquisition programs and major automated information system programs, affordability assessments are required at which milestones
B and C
Who typically conducts the affordability assessments
Resource analyst in the DOD component headquarters or supporting organization
What is assessed by the milestone decision authority and each decision point
Full funding
True or false: all participants in the acquisition system are NOT Expected to recognize the reality of fiscal constraints, and to view cost as an independent variable
False
This is all the elements of lifecycle cost, as well as other infrastructure or business process costs not necessarily attributable to the program
Total ownership cost
These costs include research and development costs, investment costs, operating and support costs, and disposal costs over the entire lifecycle. These costs include not only the direct costs of the exposition program but also include indirect costs that would be logically attributed to the program
Lifecycle cost
Procurement average unit cost PAUC include procurement cost and what two other costs
Development cost and program acquisition cost
Average procurement unit cost APUC Include what three costs
Flyaway cost, support items, and initial Spares
Which cost is the largest lifecycle cost
Operations and support
This type of acquisition strategy defines develops produces and deploys an initial, militarily useful capability based on proven technology, demonstrated manufacturing capabilities, and time phased capabilities needs supported and defined in the ICD. It also plans for subsequent development, production and deployment of increments beyond that initial capability overtime
Evolutionary acquisition strategies
For ACAT I Or above acquisition programs this is required at major milestone decision points and at the full rate production decision
Analysis of alternatives AOA
This plan should establish a roadmap of how the analysis will proceed and who is responsible for what
Analysis of alternatives
Who is required to define its program in a comprehensive formal written document known as a cost analysis requirements description, or card
The program office
Which cost estimating technique would you see early on
Analogy and/or parametric
This assesses the aggregate. Ability and overall estimate due to the variability in each input probability distribution
Risk analysis
An independent lifecycle cost must be prepared and provided to the milestone decision authority before the approval of the major defense acquisition program to proceed with which two acquisition phases
Engineering and manufacturing development; production and deployment
Who is responsible for fulfilling the requirements for the independent cost estimate
The OSD office of cost assessment, or D – CA PE
What is the tool that allows both government and contractor program managers to have visibility into technical, cost, and schedule planning, performance and progress on their contracts
Clinger Cohen act
Earned value management compliance is required on cost or incentive contract value that or greater than what amount
$20 million
What is the management tool that:
Relates the scope of the work associated budgets and schedule; measures the work progress in objective terms; States the value of the work completed in dollars, or other measurable units
Earned value management
What is the formula for schedule variance
BCWP - BCWS
What is the formula for cost variance
BCWP - ACWP
What is management reserve
It is owned and controlled by the contractor; it is used for unknown unknowns; it is usually not enough
The budget cost of work performed also called what
Earned value
In earned value management budget terms contract over runs or under runs are determined by comparing the final cost of the contract with what
Contract budget base CBB
This technique for earned value management tends to overstate performance in the first half of the period of performance and understate performance in the last half
Percent start/percent finish
This earned value technique can be seen as all or none
0/100%
A quality assurance function that inspects a statistical sample of finished products is an example of what Earned value technique
Apportioned effort technique
The budgeted cost of work scheduled and also known as what
Performance measurement baseline
This includes the undistributed budget, all summary level planning package budgets, and all control count budgets. It does not include management reserves
Performance measurement baseline PMB
The final step of the PMB development process is what
Classify the work; allocate the budget; time phase control account work package budgets
This is the general term used for describing a major realignment of the performance measurement baseline to improve the correlation between the workplan and a baseline budget scope and schedule
Re-baselining
This is a realignment of schedule or reallocation a budget for remaining effort with an existing constraints of the contract
Replanning
This is a comprehensive realignment nof the remaining performance measurement baseline that results in a total budget and/ or total schedule that exceeds the contractual requirements
Reprogramming
What is the formula for cost performance index CPI
BCWP/ACWP
The ratio less than one indicates that the value of the work that has been accomplished is less than the amount of money spent
What is the formula for schedule performance index
BCWP/BCWS
A ratio less than one indicates that work is been completed slower than planned
What is the formula for estimate at completion
EAC = ACWP + [(BAC-BCWP)/(performance factor)]
Performance factor will be either cost performance index or schedule performance index
Who is responsible for providing the needed product support capability to maintain the readiness sustainment and operation of the system
The program manager
The lifecycle sustainment plan shall be prepared for which my milestone
Milestone b
This is a process for establishing and maintaining the consistency of the products physical and functional attributes with the design and operational information throughout its life
Configuration management
True or false: reliability, reduced logistics footprint, and reduced system lifecycle cost almost effectively achieved through exclusion from the very beginning of the program – starting with the definition of needed capabilities
False should be inclusion
A key lifecycle sustainment and emphasis during EMD is to ensure it operational supportability with particular attention to minimizing what
The logistics footprint
Who conducts post deployment reviews, periodic assessments of system support strategies these of the actual versus expected levels of performance and support
The DOD components
The essence of performance-based logistics is buying what, not the individual parts and repair actions
Performance outcomes
True or false: one of the most significant aspects of PBL is the concept of ingratiated agreement between the major stakeholders, e.g. the program manager, the force provider and the support provider
True
Program manager enters into performance-based agreements with whom
With users, which specify the level of operational support and performance; also with organic sources and contracts with commercial sources
This encompasses the human systems elements of the systems engineering process. Program managers should use the elements of this to design and develop systems that effectively and affordably integrate with human capabilities and limitations
Human systems integration
This identifies the cognitive, physical, and sensory abilities of the operators, maintainers, and support personnel that are expected to be in place of the time the systems fielded
Target audience description TAD
The sponsor and program manager should give careful consideration and priority to the use of this type of training. It is often the best way to provide timely and effective training
Embedded training
This is the realization of a robust globally network environment, interconnecting infrastructure systems processes and people, within which data is shared seamlessly and in a timely manner among users applications and platforms
Net-centricity
This approach uses the global information grid and envisions moving to trusted network centric operations through the acquisition of systems and families of systems that are secure a reliable and interoperable
Net centricity
This is the ability of systems and infrastructure components, external to a specific IT or national security system, to aid protect complement or sustain the design development testing training or operations of it to achieve its required operational and functional capability
Supportability
Who reviews all ISP documents for acquisition category I AND I-A programs
The office of the assistant secretary of defense networks and information integration, now called CIO
Fundamental questions of if and how the system or equipment being developed will depend on and interact with what
Electromagnetic spectrum
For defense business system acquisition programs that have modernization funding exceeding this amount, the MDA Shauna grant any most of them or full rate reduction in the authority to obligate funding shall not be granted until the certification required has been approved by the defense business system management committee
$1 million
This requires to maximum practical extent use of commercial off-the-shelf items
The Clinger Cohan act
This is designed to improve the way the government requires and managers information technology it formed the need to create the CIO function and institutionalizes a number of best management practices
The Clinger Cohan act
These three things require the use of CO TS information technology solutions to the maximum practical extent
Klinger Cohan act; DOD instruction 5000.02; management initiative decision 905
True or false: commercial off-the-shelf is defined as commercial items that allow any government modifications or maintenance over the lifecycle of the product
False
What is research and technology classified information and research and technology controlled unclassified information I defined by RDTE site directors to receive specialized counterintelligence insecurity support
Designated science and technology information DA&TI
True or false: CPI may be classified information or CUI About technologies, processes, applications, or end items that if disclosed or compromised, would NOT degrade system combat effectiveness
False it would degrade
True or false: foreign participation in system development is possible
True
Who establishes and approves the program protection plan PPP for an acquisition program, and when does he do so
The program manager; as soon as practicable after validation of the initial capabilities document and the determination that CPI exists
This is used to identify and learn about deficiencies so that they can be resolved prior to production and deployment
Test and evaluation
True or false: developmental test and evaluation should increase to robust system level and system of systems level testing and evaluation, to ensure that the system has matured to a point where it can meet IOT & EE and operational employment requirements
True
This reduces technical risk and increases the probability of a successful 0T & E
Robust DT &zero
This is conducted to determine system operational effectiveness, suitability, and survivability
Operational test and evaluation
This should be addressed even in cases where the platform cannot survive
The ability of personnel to survive
When should the test and evaluation strategy be submitted
45 days prior to milestone a so that and OSD approved document is available to support the decision
This provides a roadmap for integrated simulation, test, and evaluation plans, schedules, and resource requirements necessary to accomplish the program objectives
Test and evaluation master plan TEMP
When must the TEMP be submitted
Not later than 45 days prior to the milestone b
Which type of documents are viewed through out the acquisition process
Technology
What are the three milestones
Milestone a enters technology development; milestone b enters engineering and manufacturing development; milestone c enters production and deployment
What are the sub review decision points
Material development decision; post PDR assessment; post CDR assessment; FRP decision review
Who chairs the Defense acquisition board
USD AT&L
What group provides the forum for approving acquisition category IAM milestones
Information-technology acquisition board reviews
For acquisition category ID and IAM programs what are the two levels of IPT
Over arching integrated project team; working level integrated product team
Who will lead the OI PT for acquisition category ID programs
The director, defense systems or deputy to the ASD(NII)
Who is responsible for preparing the independent cost estimate
The deputy director for cost assessment and program evaluation D- CAPE, aka CAIG
What is the program deviation report measured against
The APB
This report reports the status of total program cost, schedule, and performance, as well as program unit cost and unit cost breach information
Selected acquisition report SAR
This report includes the program acquisition unit cost PAUC And the average procurement unit cost APUC
Unit cost report UCR
This is when the current estimate exceeds the program acquisition unit cost objective or the average procurement unit cost objective of the currently approved APB both in base year dollars by 15% or more
Significant breach
The potential for this corporation should be addressed and considered during the development of the initial acquisition strategy and also in every phase of the acquisition process
international cooperation
This contractor report focuses on the collection of actual costs
Contractor cost data report
This contractor report supplements actual costs with software metrics that provide a better understanding and improved estimating software intensive programs
Software resources data report
What is the dollar threshold for which program managers should obtain a CPR contract performance report
$20 million
This type of contract should not apply the CFSR contract funds status report unless unusual circumstances dictate a specific funding visibility
Firm fixed price
What organizations quality assurance personnel conduct government contract quality assurance as a Denna find a contract administration delegations
Defense contract management agency DC MA
Which is the fifth element of special management activities for acquisition of services
Clinger Cohen act compliance
The director DP AP will organize review teams and facilitate preaward and post award Peer reviews for all service contracts with an estimated value of what
$1 billion or more including options
What are the 2Peer reviews that the DP AP will organize for service contracts with an estimated value of $1 billion or more
Preaward and post award
