Requirements Analysis and Maturation

Abstract

The Requirements Analysis and Maturation (RAM) program funds development planning (DP) to include early systems engineering and integrated simulation and analysis. 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 driving non-materiel solutions as well as weapon systems requirements, acquisition milestones, decision points, and phases. A number of Department of Defense (DoD), Government Accountability Office (GAO), and independent studies point to a need for more disciplined, early systems engineering and pre-systems acquisition planning and analysis 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. DP efforts have been coordinated with the Air Force Capability Development Council to ensure funding supports the highest Air Force priorities. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver development planning and integrated simulation and analysis capabilities. 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, development, test and evaluation.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
0606017F_6_3600_PB_2019
Change Summary Explanation
Other adjustment decrease of $100 million in FY 2017 because FY 2017 Request for Additional Appropriations (RAA) for Planning for Development (PFD) and Joint Simulation Environment (JSE) was not appropriated. Increase in FY 2019 for JSE Simulation and Analysis Facility (SIMAF) activities.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Cross Domain
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • High Performance Computing
  • Investments
  • Maturation
  • Simulations
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Virtual Prototyping

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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