Systems Engineering and Program Management
Abstract
GMD Systems Engineering, GMD Product Engineering, and Program Management provides essential engineering and program management functions for the development, fielding, and sustainment of the GMD Weapon System (GWS). GMD Systems Engineering delivers valued and collaborative technical leadership, capability, and products to field a verifiably effective GWS to defeat the strategic missile threat to the United States Homeland. GMD Systems Engineering provides key functions and products such as architecture engineering, performance requirements development and verification, interface requirements development and verification, testing and performance analysis, modeling and simulation development, integration, verification, and validation, including Digital and Hardware-in-the-Loop M&S improvements (such as common M&S framework development and environmental modeling) required to develop and conduct MDS-level high-fidelity simulations, digital engineering infrastructure, configuration management, software independent verification, validation, and software assessment, technical integration, and GMD Engineering Development and Early Integration Lab operations. GMD Systems Engineering manages the GMD Technical Baseline ensuring rigorous engineering processes and controls are in place to sustain Warfighter confidence through focus on reliability, readiness, and sustainment; improve engagement capability; and increase speed of delivery of new acquisitions to address the evolving threat. GMD Product Engineering delivers sound and integrated engineering and manufacturing processes and products thorough engineering controls, management, and verification; independent test, analysis, and assessment of failed and high risk events and engineering efforts; hardware and software readiness; and industrial and manufacturing readiness. GMD Product Engineering provides key functions and products, such as GWS design; risk, issues, and opportunities management; interface designs; and failure review boards. GMD Product Engineering manages the GMD Operational Baseline ensuring rigorous engineering processes and controls are in place for the configuration-controlled listing of approved GMD-level hardware and software is available for the Warfighters' use in their mission to defend the United States Homeland. GMD Technical Direction Agent (TDA) provides the technical expertise and program execution experience required to offer the Missile Defense Agency independent analysis, unbiased and objective weapon system level-oriented advice on technical issues and product development, and recommendations on technical issues and product development challenges faced in the GMD Program. Program Management provides for prime contractor management of all GMD development and sustainment activities to ensure technical content delivery in line with cost, schedule, and performance objectives. This effort includes program and business management, program administration, subcontract management, technical and testing oversight, verification of hardware and software development, quality/safety/mission assurance, integrated logistics support, and infrastructure to develop, test and sustain the GMD system and components. Systems Integration, Test and Readiness (SITR) is charged with being the government's technical partner for system level engineering, integration, test, and readiness responsibilities and day-to-day operation of the GWS alongside the USNORTHCOM warfighters. While the Government maintains overall authority, the SITR prime contractor will assume the role of technical agent responsible for ensuring overall GMD integration including physical and logical integration of the GMD components, GMD system and MDA enterprise level integration, planning and execution of all necessary testing to verify and validate overall requirements compliance. Government Program Office defines requirements and manages the overall program; SITR provides the technical expertise and process ownership to integrate and execute the program. SITR organizes and runs the processes that provides the Government the oversight. SITR does not have authority to direct the GMD development efforts. Key responsibility for the SITR Prime Contractor is the overall performance of the integrated GMD weapon system including: 1) Execute GMD element-level critical engineering processes and activities for system integration and test to include current and future systems; 2) Demonstrate GMD Homeland Defense Capability through GMD Element and Missile Defense System (MDS) System-Level Flight, Ground, and Cybersecurity Developmental Testing (DT) and Operational Testing (OT); and 3) Perform GMD system operations to include weapon system operation, site operations, maintenance, test support, training, and upgrades. Specific and/or unique accomplishments to each FY are as follows:
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2022
- Source ID
- b774c617c2c86e16e16d99eecab06ee3