Establishing a Program for Applying Earned Value Metrics to Flight Test

Abstract

Improving efficiency and decreasing costs are becoming more important as the pressure to procure aircraft weapons systems more quickly and at a lower cost increases. The current tool of choice for tracking program efficiency is Earned Value Management (EVM), which provides indices of cost and schedule performance against an agreed upon baseline for task completion. This paper discusses methods that will he used by the H-1 Upgrades Flight Test Team to implement an EVM scheme to track the efficiency of the flight test program. We will define EVM, discuss, compare the merits of existing metrics for flight test, and propose a database management approach. Bounding the problem and expected metrics are discussed. Finally we will present a methodology for uniformly planning for contingencies and unknown-unknowns so as to permit success to the declared within the work package even in the face of technical challenges.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA375749

Entities

People

  • Chris Rice
  • Robin Locksley

Organizations

  • Naval Air Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aerial Warfare
  • Aircrafts
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Efficiency
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Flight Testing
  • Lessons Learned
  • Maintenance
  • Measurement
  • Pilots
  • Public Relations
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management