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 (joint and cross-Service, family of systems, system of systems, air, space, and cyber) and architecture design, cost analysis, modeling and simulation of representative or prototype systems, model validation, analytical tool development, and focused capability risk reduction. Outcomes of development planning activities include: technologically informed requirements; mature concepts that are technically feasible, operationally relevant, and militarily useful; and recommendations for science and technology (S&T) investment to reduce technical risks. Development planning activities provide the Doctrine, Organization, Training, Materiel, Leadership and Education, Personnel, Facilities, and Policy (DOTMLPF-P) analytic basis for cost and capability trades driving non-materiel and/or materiel solutions. Early-phase systems engineering and technical planning activities funded by this program provide the foundation for informed investment decisions leading to successful acquisition programs. Development planning efforts arise from engagements with industry and academia, from intersections of technology improvements with Air Force missions, from emerging operational requirements, and from vetted future-fight concepts. This program element may include necessary civilian pay expenses required to manage, execute, and deliver Requirements Analysis and Maturation capability. The use of such programs funds would be in addition to the civilian pay expenses budgeted in program element 0605831F. In FY20 $0.256 million was expended and in FY21 $0.996 million is estimated to be expended for civilian pay expenses in this program element. 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, 2022
Source ID
0606017F_6_3600_PB_2022
Change Summary Explanation
FY 2022 funding increased compared to FY 2021 by $26.952 million. Funding increased due to the addition of Common Synthetic Training Environment effort.
Service Agency Name
Air Force

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Cost Analysis
  • Cost Estimates
  • Cross Domain
  • Data Management
  • Digital Engineering
  • Education
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Engineering
  • Model Based Systems Engineering
  • Product Prototyping
  • Prototypes
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber
  • Space

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