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| What are the Cost Reimbursement Types? |
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-Cost Plus Fixed Fee
-Cost Plus Incentive Fee
-Cost Plus Award Fee
-Cost
-Cost Sharing |
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| What are Fixed Price Types? |
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-Firm Fixed Price
-Fixed Price Award Fee
-Fixed Price Incentive (Firm Target or Successive Target)
-Fixed Price (Level of Effort)
-Fixed Price with Economic Price Adjustment
-Fixed Price with Price Redetermination |
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| What type of contract type is based on Contractor's Performance? |
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| What type of contract type is less risky to the government? |
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| What type of contract is less risky to the contractor? |
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| What type of contract type is more riskier for the government? |
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| What type of contract type is riskier to the contractor? |
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| What type of contract type where cash flow is "as incurred?" |
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| What type of contract type is where the cash flow is "on delivery?" |
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| What type of contract types is based on Performance or Progress Payments? |
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| What type of contract types is based on "invoice - normally on a monthly basis?" |
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| What type of contract types has the maximum Government insight? |
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| What type of contract types is based on "minimum Government Surveillance?" |
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| What type of contract types is based on "best effort?" |
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| What type of contract types is based on "shall deliver?" |
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| What is negotiated in advance? |
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-R&D 15%;
-Other (e.g. services) 10%;
-No other statutory limits – KO Judgment |
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| Based on Fixed Price and the result of Contractor's performance. |
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| Profit: Structured approach (negotiated based on Weighted Guidelines IAW FAR 16.2) |
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| Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF) |
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Advantages to the Government:
-Subjective/Discretionary decision making
-Control and flexibility of criteria
-Unilateral modification to add award fee for period
Disadvantages
-Very people and time intensive
-Contractor may dispute whether
-Government followed its award fee plan; not whether it earned “correct” fee |
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Contractor must deliver quality product;
paid negotiated price regardless of cost |
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| Price is negotiated and established at contract award |
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| Fixed Price Award Fee (FPAF) |
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Negotiated and established
at contract award
-Fixed Price
-Paid for satisfactory performance
-Award Fee evaluation criteria
-Award Fee paid in addition to fixed price
-Based on performance during award fee periods in accordance with Award Fee plan |
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| Fixed Price Incentive (Firm Target) (FPI(F)) |
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Definition
Established at
Contract Award
- Target Cost (TC)
- Target Profit (TP)
- Ceiling Price (CP)
- Share Ratio (SR) |
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| Point of Total Assumption (PTA) |
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| cost at which the contractor assumes all cost risk (0/100 share ratio from PTA to CP and beyond) |
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| Better Buying Power (BBP) |
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| The objective of ____ ____ ___ is NOT to reduce contractor profits to make programs more affordable. Absolutely not. The intent of the BBP is not to reduce the contractor’s profit margins. In fact, DoD will accept increased profit margins if the contractor can reduce overall program price. In fact, one of the tenets of the fixed price incentive fee (FPIF) contract is to provide contractors an additional profit incentive to drive out program costs. The converse should also be true, however. We should not reward poor performance by industry with high margins, and we should use strong incentives to motivate contractor performance wherever possible.” |
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| Commercial Contract Financing |
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-Advance payments
-Interim payments |
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| Non Commercial Contract Financing |
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Non-commercial
-Advance payments
-Loan guarantees
-Progress payments
-Based on Costs
-Performance based payments |
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| Selecting contract type, incentive package, and financing plan are part of _______ ______ planning |
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| Contracting strategy for program as _ _____ must be thought through “up front and early |
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| Who do you work with hand and hand throughout the entire contracting process? |
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| Selecting the appropriate contract type, incentive package, and financing plan are part of _____ _____ planning |
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| Who does the PM work with in recommending a contract type to MDA for MDAP? |
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A ____ ____ development contract may be too risky, if so:
MDA documents basis for contract type
Explanation of the level of program risk
If level of risk is high, steps taken to reduce risk
Reasons for proceeding with M/S B approval despite high risk |
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-Receipt of material
-Receipt of major subcontracted items
-Product leaving a machining / tooling phase
-Completion of first article testing
-Machining, forging, fabricating parts |
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| Best method for selecting payment events |
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| Diagram the process flow of the product and select the key events that lead to completing the product. |
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| What is the Government’s preferred method of contract financing for fixed price contracts |
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| Performance Based Payments (PBP) |
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| What is the left leg of the V? |
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| What is the right left of the V? |
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| Fabricate, Integrate, and Test |
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| It is viewed as a top-down process. |
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| Starting with the defintion of system level requirements, proceeds to item level and fnally to detailed design requirements, reviewed at the CDR |
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| Fabricate, Integrate and Test |
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| Fabricate, Integrate and Test |
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| Starts with the build up of components and assemblies, to configuration items and finally to system level |
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| Technical Management Process |
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-Decision Analysis
-Technical Planning
-Technical Assessment
-Requirements Management
-Risk Management
-Configuration Management
-Techical Data Management
-Interface Management |
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-Stakeholder Requirements
-Requirements Analysis
-Architecture Design
-Integration
-Verification
-Validation
-Translation |
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| Allocated baseline is set for E&MD |
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| Initial product baseline going into manufacturing |
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| What is the only reviews required by the 5000.2 |
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| The left side of the V is what? |
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| Design/Verification Planning leg |
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Top Left Down
Stakeholder Requirements
Requirements Analysis
Architecture Design
Bottom Up
Implementation
Integration
Verfication
Validation
Transition
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| What does each "V" starts off by listing what? |
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| Top down driven process - definition / design tasks |
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| is a bototm up driven process - fabrication, integration, test tasks |
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| Translates user needs into Solutions |
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| What does the PM use to manage the technical development of the system increments including the supporting or enabling systems |
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| Technical Management Process |
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Ensures proper technical decisions making for balancing:
-Cost Performance
-Schedule
-Supportabilty
-Roboustness
Comprises
-Trade Studies
-Supportabilty analysis
-Cost analysis |
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Ensures proper technical decisions making for balancing:
-Cost Performance
-Schedule
-Supportabilty
-Roboustness
Comprises
-Trade Studies
-Supportabilty analysis
-Cost analysis |
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| Defines and prioritizes decision criteria with respect to programmatic, technical and total life cycle concerns |
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| Provies the basis for evaluation and selection of technical alternatives when decisions need to be made (Make or buy Decisions) |
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| What are you looking at during decision analysis? |
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-Cost Performance
-Schedule
-Supportabilty
-Roboustness |
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| How are you comparing things during decision analysis? |
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-Trade Studies
-Supportabilty analysis
-Cost analysis |
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| Provides the basis for evaluating and selecting alternatives when decisions need to be made |
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| Involves selecting the criteria for the decision and the methods to be used in conducting the analysis |
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| During system design, analysis must be conducted to help chose amongst alternatives to achieve a balanced, supportable, robust and cost effective system design |
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| Will be influenced by such things as interoperabilty constraints, size, transportabiltiy reqts, maint. concept, affordabilty, reliabilty, availabilty, and maintainability goals and schedule |
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| Ensures proper planning of the SE process throughout the system's life cycle. |
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Addresses:
-Technical effort required
-Technical maturation of the system throughout the program |
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| Each technical process are subject to _____ _____. |
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| May influece the derived reqts. |
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| Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) |
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| Is a mandated tool for Technical Planning |
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| as opposed to program planning, addresses the scope of the technical effort required to develop the system |
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| _______ _________ for implementation, integration, verfication, validation, and transition processes and their accompanying systems can reveal constraints and interfaces that will result in derivied technical requirements |
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| Measuring technical progress and the effectiveness of plans and reqts. (Via TPMs and TRs) |
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| Measures technical progress and maturation |
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| Technical Performance Measurement (TPM) |
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| Forecasts values of essential performance parameters, measures values achieved by current design, determines the impact of difference (forecast vs current) on system effectiveness |
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| Demonstrates and confirms technical maturity and relevant exit criteria |
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| These actys discover deficiencies or anomalies that often result in the application of corrective action. |
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| Preliminary Design Review (PDR) |
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| Preliminary Design Review (PDR) |
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| Assesses the preliminary design as captured in performance specs for each configuration item (CI), |
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| Preliminary Design Review (PDR) |
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| Determines whether the system is ready to proceed into detailed design, confirms the allocated baseline |
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| System Level Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for Non Major Programs (ACAT II-IV) |
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| can be done during TD phase (if part of the TDS) or post MS B early in EMD phase (if part of the AS) |
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| System Level Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for Major Defense Acq. Programs (MDAP) ACAT I |
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| PDR, PDR Report and POST-PDR Assessment required to be done prior to MS B |
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| Formal PDR Report is required by____ |
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| Assessed as part of MS B review, or after MS B at Post PDR Assessment, as appropriate |
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| Critical Design Review (CDR) |
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| Required by the DOD 5000.02 |
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| System Critical Design Review (CDR) |
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| accomplished during EMD phase |
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| System Critical Design Review (CDR) |
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| Assesses system final design as captured in performance specs for each CI |
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| System Critical Design Review (CDR) |
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| Determines whether the system is ready to proceed to fabrication, confirms the product baseline |
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Who will participate in CDRs?
Prepare an assessment of design maturity and technical risks; and
coodinate these assessments with the PM prior to forwarding them to the MDA |
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DASD (SE)
Office of Deputy Secretary of Defense (SE) |
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| Provides adequate practices and repostory to capture, present, and manage requirements, their attributions and relationships |
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| Maintain bi-directional traceabilty from capability needs identified by JCIDS down to the lowest level derived technical reqts. |
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| Also establish traceabilty to verification and validation |
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| Captures rationale for changes |
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| Providing traceabilty of system and subsystems requirements ultimately back to user-defined capabilties and needs |
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| Provides traceabilty back to user-defined capabilities as documented through the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System |
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1. Maintain traceability of all reqts from capabilities needs
2. to document all changes to those reqts
3. to record the rational for those changes |
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| Addresses potential risks for deviation from the program objectives over the whole life cycle |
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| In systems enginerring examines the risk of deviating from program plan. |
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| ____ is addressed from day one and througout the program |
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| If it has already happened, its an _____ |
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| The establishment and maintenance of the consistency of a product's attributes with its requirements and configuration information |
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| Configuration Identification |
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| Configuration Change Control |
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| Configuration Status Accounting |
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| Configuration verification and audit |
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| COnfirms performance and functional requirements have been met |
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| Efficient ____ ____ is an esential enabler for good SE |
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| Provides techical and programmatic insight and supports management actys as well as decision making |
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| Data acquistion and retrieval (access vs acq of all data) |
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| These are among the most common sources of failure in complex systems |
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| Establishes practices and procedures to ensure proper interface defintions, documentation and compliance throughout the system life cycle |
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