SMC Specs

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SMCSpecs StandardsInitiative
Dave Davis Chief, Systems Engineering
Division SMC/EAE 310 653-1427 david.davis_at_losangel
es.af.mil
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Background

• Several Billion in Lost Assets During the
  1990s/early 2000s
• Reduced Government and Contractor Mission
  Assurance
• and engineering resources
• The 90s Saw a Number of Interrelated New
  Directions for the Development of Space Systems
• DoD Acquisition Reform
• Reduced reliance on specs/standards
• Deferred largely to commercial best practices
• NASA Faster, Better, Cheaper
• Commercial Best Practices

Acquisition Practices of the 1990s Were
Inherently Flawed
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Industry-Wide Technical Issues

• System Complexity, in an Absolute Sense,
  Continues to Increase in Magnitude and Scope
• Parts
• Hardware
• Software
• Interfaces
• Increased Complexity Also Results in
• More latent defects (increased late build-cycle
  and orbital failures)
• Greater test challenges related to changes in
  technology, manufacturing and materials
• Increasing electronic part or device complexity
  (e.g., ASIC, FPGA)
• Increased use and complexity of software
• System design and sub-system complexity
• Ability and willingness to test like you fly

Satellites Today Face a Greater Challenge to
Verify Full Performance and Screen for Defects
Prior to Launch
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Specs Standards Initiative

• Apply specs standards as element of acquisition
  practices and toolset
• Define technical practices and expectations by
  government
• Define the what and not the how to
• Establish Select list of space systems
  standards
• Establish baseline set of common specs and
  standards
• Include military and industry (e.g., AIAA, ISO)
  standards
• Establish Organizational Policy
• Specify critical standards in RFP
• Compliance Documents
• Baseline contractually

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SMC SS Policy

• Issued by Lt.Gen. Hamel 11 July
• Establishes specifications and standards as an
  integral element of SMC acquisition processes
• Applies to all new development, acquisition and
  sustainment contracts, including new contracts
  for legacy programs
• Contractual compliance through the supplier
  chain, as appropriate
• SMC Chief Engineer (CE) responsible for master
  list of compliance documents
• SPOs, with CE, generate tailored set of specs
  and standards and recommend to PEO for
  implementation
• SMC/CC/AFPEO Space resolves issues

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SMC SS List

• Revised SMC SS List published 8/9/2007
• 65 essential documents
• Entire SMC System Portfolio
• Military, International, and Industry Standards,
  and Aerospace TORs
• Updated standards to reflect current best
  practices
• Additional updates to current document versions

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Standards Technical/Functional Areas

• Program Management
• Systems Engineering
• Risk Management
• Configuration Management
• Design Reviews
• Product Assurance
• Electrical Power
• Electrical Power, Batteries
• Electrical Power, Solar
• EMI / EMC
• Environmental Engineering
• Human Factors
• Interoperability
• Logistics
• Parts Management/Engr

• Ordnance
• Pressure Vessels
• Reliability
• Maintainability
• Manufacturing / Producibility
• Mass Properties
• Safety
• Security
• Software Development
• Structures
• Survivability
• Moving Mechanical Assemblies (MMAs)
• Test, Ground
• Test, Space

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National Security Space
Space Industrial Base Council
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Collaboration Across National Security Space
Ensuring Consistency
NSS Integration
SMC / NRO Collaboration
Space Industrial Base Council
Mission Assurance Integration Task Force
Co-Chaired by DoD EA Space DNRO
Co-Chaired by NRO DDSE SMC/EA
Bring Senior Level Attention to Space Industrial
Base Issues on a Recurring Basis and Bring
Forward Actionable Recommendations Across the
Full Range of Industrial Base Issues.
Identify and implement areas where a common SMC
/ NRO approach provides benefit.
Specs Stds Working Group
Specs Stds Working Group

• Ensure sound technical practices applied on NSS
  programs and facilitate industrial supply base
  consistent with requirements
• Ensure NSS community takes a consistent approach
  in the application of specs standards
• SMC NSSO NRO Navy NASA MDA NOAA

• Establish a common set of preferred
  specifications and standards
• Aerospace representative on NRO Standards
  Advisory Panel (NSAP)

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Industry Standards Completed

• 7 AIAA Standards recently issued under SMC effort
• Moving Mechanical Assemblies for Space and Launch
  Vehicles, S-114-2005
• Criteria for Explosive Systems and Devices Used
  on Space and Launch Vehicles, S-113-2005
• Qualification and Quality Requirements for
  Space-Qualified Solar Cells, S-111-2005
• Qualification and Quality Requirements for
  Space-Qualified Solar Panels, S-112-2005
• Space Systems-Structures Design and Test
  Requirements, S-110-2005
• Mass Properties Controls for Space Systems,
  S-120-2006
• Electrical Power Systems for Unmanned Spacecraft,
  S-122-2007

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SMC / Contractor SS initiativesAFSO21
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SS Problem Statement

• No mutual understanding of contractor and SMC
  Specs and Standards (SS) processes
• Differing requirements from different SMC
  customers
• Contractor labor intensive efforts to correlate
  command media (CM) to government SS
• Difficulty in tracking changes in SS
• Persistent contractor push back on
  implementation of SS
• Lack of feedback on contractor comments on SS

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Objectives/Goals

• Review modify current processes
• Provide documented processes which facilitate
  the development, modification, and implementation
  of the SMC Compliance SS and Contractor command
  media programs
• Provide documented contractor processes which
  facilitate understanding of relationship
  (verifiability) of contractor command media and
  SMC Compliance Standards
• Improve both government and contractor SS
  processes to facilitate achievement of program
  operational requirements

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SS Scope

• Project Focused on SMC and Contractor Processes
• Process 1 Development and Modification of SS
• Process 2 Contractor Compliance with SS
• Process 3 Pre-award SS Tailoring Process
• Focused on Competitive Procurement versus Sole
  Source

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Current State Flow
Spec Std Development and/or Modification
Process 1
Informal Collaborative SME Review
SQIC other industry reviews
Needs Analysis
Confirm Need
Create/Modify SS
Informal Review of SS
Formal Review Modify SS
Approve SS
Update SS List
Approve SS List
G
G
GI
GI
G
G
G

• Improve distribution methods
• Improve cross-correlation of changes made to the
  SS list S

• SMC Industry Involvement
• Cross-Fertilize Lessons Learned
• Quick Turn Process

• Institute Framework/ process for
• Initiating change

• More disciplined infrastructure and
  implementation process

• Industry Input in Approval Process
• List of approved Stds

• Improve distribution methods

Government Activity
G
Industry Activity
I
Potential improvement opportunities identified by
team
Process or mechanism to support identified step
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Current State Flow
SS Contractor Compliance Process 2
Process 1
Process 2
Informal Framework
Informal Framework
Doesnt exist in a formal way today
SMC provides SS
Industry compares Command Media to SS
SMC Industry Discussions on Comments
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GI
I

• Formal Mapping of CM to SMC SS
• Assess if change to internal CM feasible

• SMC Industry SME collaboration

Process 3
Industry compares SS with Command Media for each
RFP (Process 3)
Industry proposes current command media meets
intent or agree to take exception to CM
Provide Comments on draft RFP (Process 3)
I
I
I

• Industry justifies CM or proposes alternate
  approach

Government Activity
G
Industry Activity
I
Potential improvement opportunities identified by
team
Process or mechanism to support identified step
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Current State Flow
Pre-Contract Spec Std Tailoring Process 3
Process 1

• Standardized process for reviewing and
  disposition comments

• Standardized process for providing and reviewing
  comment

• Modifications of Specs included within RFP

• Minimal deviation from SS compliance

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Changes
Tailor list for Acquisition
Tailor individual S S for Specific Acquisition
Release Draft RFP
Provide Comments
Review Disposition Comments
G
I
GI
G
G
N
Receive Proposals Select Source
Negotiate SS Baseline
Execute Administer Contract
Review, Approve, Release Final RFP
Respond to RFP
G
I
G
GI
GI

• Process Std for dealing with Heritage, OTS
  Legacy Hardware
• Approved Alternate Approach Deviations

Solicitation Review Board

• Better understanding of Rqmts

• Minimal deviation from SS compliance

Government Activity
G
Industry Activity
I
Potential improvement opportunities identified by
team
Process or mechanism to support identified step
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Future State Flow
Spec Std Development and/or Modification
Process 1
Determine revision or new SS required
Receive recommendation for revisions or new SS
Start
Initiation of Change or Addition
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GI
G
Create/Modify SS
Informal Review of SS
Formal Review Modify SS
Approve SS
Highlight Changes
Distribute updated SS
Confirm need determine scope through
collaborative review process
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GI
G
GI
GI
G
G
GI
Provide access to published SS
Designates POC to represent organization ensure
two-way flow of information
Review SS for correlation to internal command
media
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I
I
SMEs provide comments regarding SS / POC
provides feedback to Comment Originators
Update SS List
Approve SS List
Distribute updated SS list
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Finish
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G
G
G
Provide access to published SS
I
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Future State Flow
Contractor Compliance Process 2
Start
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SMC Provides SS
SMC Comm. to Wings Contractor
Industry Maps CM to S/S
SMC Industry SMEs review CM mapping
SMC provides compliance assessment
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Finish
G
GI
G
I
GI
Government Activity
G
Industry Activity
I
SS Process Improvement
Industry Auxiliary Process Improvement
Auxiliary Process Connections
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Future State Flow
Pre-Contract Spec Std Tailoring Process 3
Receive SS comments from draft RFPs
Should address all changes to RFPs
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Start
Tailor list for Acquisition
Tailor individual SS for Specific Acquisition
Release Draft RFP
Provide Comments
Review Disposition Comments
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3
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Highlight latest SS changes in RFP Revisions
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G
G
G
I
GI
G
Receive contractor responses for Heritage and OTS
items
G
Provide Feedback to Comment Originators
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Receive Proposals Select Source
Negotiate SS Baseline
Execute Administer Contract
Review, Approve, Release Final RFP
Respond to RFP
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Finish
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I
G
GI
GI
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Summary

• SS Infrastructure and Institutionalization on
  both sides critical for success
• Infrastructure
• Policies, organizational structure, roles
  responsibilities
• Institutionalization
• Disciplined implementation
• Minimize Waivers/Deviations
• Government must implement across all
  programs.and acquisition agencies
• Industry must implement across programs