Acquisition and Command Support
Abstract
Supporting Congressional and SECDEF mandates, program funding provides the framework for Air Force business and acquisition transformation in developing capabilities-based architectures, re-engineering and enabling technologies, integrating robust systems engineering into early acquisition processes, and developing and managing a larger, more relevant technical workforce with the expertise to uniformly implement OSD and Air Force engineering guidance and policies. Leveraging the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment, restores stability in Air Force acquisition systems by integrating major processes to reverse trends toward unpredictable program cost, schedule, and performance to facilitate quick response to urgent operational needs from across the entire spectrum of potential conflicts. The 554th Electronic Systems Wing, formerly known as Information System Activity Group (ISAG), designs, tests, and evaluates combat support system architectures, operating environments, and computer platforms. Efforts include: · Increasing technical and analytical support through training development; independent cost estimating and assessment to help analyze cost/risk growth and create defendable risk analyses for cost, schedule, and technical risks; information technology infrastructure development; and economic, statistical, and engineering analyses of acquisition programs · Initiating performance measures for capability-based planning constructs, aligning relevant science and technology areas with operational requirements to include systems integration modeling and architecture analysis · Increasing activities to recruit, develop, and manage the technical workforce, enhancing business and engineering processes to develop leaders to manage the acquisition and engineering transformation and interface with the academic community · Transforming acquisition review processes to re-establish clean lines of responsibility, authority, and accountability at appropriate levels · Exploring methods to operate a materiel solution development process that is responsive to COCOM capability needs, aligned with the OSD Joint Task Assignment Process · Creating an acquisition business systems environment consisting of a foundation of centrally managed and integrated tools augmented by standardized authoriative data to support the Air Force Smart Operations for the 21st Centrury (AFSO21). Implements Develop and Sustain Warfighting Systems (D&SWS) process improvement across the Air Force further enabling Acquisition Excellence.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- 66ACSI_0702806F_6_3600_PB_2011
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