A Study of Research and Development Contract Requirements and Their Growth.
Abstract
Military contracts for the development and procurement of weapon systems and associated hardware components deal with definitional statements concerning those products called technical requirements. Conceptually, there are different types of technical requirements which range from broad goals stated in Mission Requirements, to subtle and small details reflected in Design Requirements. This dissertation was a pilot study on technical requirements and was split into two parts. The first part investigated documents which commonly reflect requirements in Air Force developments. The document type chosen was the Part One Critical Item Specification. The intent of this part of the research was to see if proposed conceptual requirement types could be found in standard documents, and if so, whether the types fully exhausted the document's supply of requirements. Study results indicated that the proposed categories were appropriate but that the overlap between requirement types made isolation a gross rather than precise process. Recommendations for future study of this area included proposal for a small group investigation of requirement counting and classifying.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1979
- Accession Number
- ADA107875
Entities
People
- Ronald Gene Blackledge
Organizations
- Air Force Institute of Technology