Requirements Analysis and Maturation

Abstract

The Requirements Analysis and Maturation (RAM) program funds early systems engineering and pre-acquisition planning and analysis activities. These activities include requirements analysis, capability decomposition and trade space characterization, concept development (system of systems, air, space, and cyber), cost analysis, modeling and simulation of representative or prototype systems, and costs associated with these activities to include analytical tools and travel. Outcomes of these activities are fiscally and technologically informed requirements, mature concepts that are technically feasible, and areas for science and technology (S&T) investment to reduce technology risks. These activities provide the analytic basis for cost and capability trades to inform weapon systems requirements and acquisition milestones, decision points, and phases; for example, the Materiel Development Decision (MDD). A number of Department of Defense (DoD), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and independent industry studies point to a need for more disciplined, early-phase systems engineering and pre-systems acquisition planning to produce decision-quality acquisition information that previously did not surface until after the initiation of a program. Early-phase systems engineering and technical planning activities funded by this program provide the foundation for informed investment decisions leading to successful acquisition programs. Specific efforts are determined each year based upon the highest Air Force priorities. This program is in Budget Activity 6 RDT&E Management Support because this budget activity includes research, development, test and evaluation efforts and funds to sustain and/or modernize the installations or operations required for general research, develpment, test and evaluation.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2015
Source ID
0606017F_6_3600_PB_2015
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Budget Estimates
  • Budgets
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Elements
  • Engineering
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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