Requirements Analysis and Maturation

Abstract

The Requirements Analysis and Maturation (RAM) program addresses a critical need for decision-quality information prior to initiating a new acquisition program by executing integrated materiel studies and analyses across the Air Force enterprise (air, space, and cyber). A number of Department of Defense (DoD), Government Accountability Office, and industry studies point to a need for more disciplined, early-phase systems engineering and pre-systems acquisition planning to produce the detailed acquisition information that previously did not surface until after the initiation of a program. The RAM program element (PE) funds early systems engineering and pre-acquisition planning and analysis activities such as requirements analysis, concept development, acquisition strategy development, cost analysis, modeling and simulation, and costs associated with these activities to include analytical tools and travel. This comprehensive approach supports acquisition courses of action to initiate high-confidence acquisition programs. Specific efforts are determined each year by requests submitted from Air Force Major Commands and subsequently prioritized and approved by the Air Force Development Planning Governance Structure. This effort is in Budget Activity 4, Advanced Component Development and Prototypes, since it involves the planning and analyses necessary to develop system specific efforts that help expedite technology transition from the laboratory to operational use. For FY 2014 and out Space and Non-Space RAM PE activities were combined into a single Development Planning project, BPAC 645349

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0604337F_4_3600_PB_2014
• Service Agency Name: Air Force

Entities

Organizations

• United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Advanced Electronics
• Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Cost Analysis
• Costs
• Department Of Defense
• Engineering
• Maturation
• Procurement
• Prototypes
• Simulations
• Systems Engineering
• Test And Evaluation
• Transitions

Fields of Study

• Engineering

Readers

• Civilian Systems Systems Program Capability Development and Upgrade Support Activity Expense and Pay Management.
• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Cyber
• Space