The Real NDI Buyer's Guide.

Abstract

This document summarizes the best practices and lessons learned in several decades of acquiring Non-Developmental Item (NDI) systems. These processes have been codified into a tailorable process and several subprocesses. This process has been reconciled with the Center's systems engineering processes and practices to ensure its practical applications. The process also introduces the concept of a system life-cycle management agent responsible for emerging the process application throughout the system life cycle. The heavy application of NDI to system acquisitions raises a variety of very significant issues that must be resolved across traditional organizational boundaries and that require the coordination of a variety of engineering expertise; the system life-cycle management concept provides for this technical coordination and ensures the appropriate expertise is applied to the resolution of these issues.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA310885

Entities

People

  • J. H. Townsend

Organizations

  • Naval Command, Control and Ocean Surveillance Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Business Administration
  • Checkout Procedures
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Configuration Management
  • Engineers
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Life Cycle Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Operating Systems
  • Performance Tests
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Word Processors

Readers

  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.