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| Only contracting officer signs agreement |
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| Quicker to implement but riskier to get approved |
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| Both Contracting Officer and contractor rep must sign agreement |
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| Undefinitized bilateral modification with NTE amount (Undefineitized Supplemental Agreement) |
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Required change is within scope
Can be issued by contracting acty
requires - discussion of work, agreement on NTE dollar amount |
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| Manpower, Materials, Machinery, Methods and Measurement |
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| Industrial Capability Analysis |
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Step 1: Decide if analysis is warranted
Step 2: Define the problem
Step 3: Do financial analysis
Step 4: Determine Cost time Effective alternatives
Step 5: Identify and evaluate alternate actions |
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| Industrial Capabilities Analysis |
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| The financial analysis provides a comparision of numerical measurs calcuated at the prodcut or business unit level with similiar calculations obtained at the corporate level to determine the importance of the product or business unit to the corporation |
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| The legal relationship and responbilities between parties to the same contract. The Government has privity of contract with the Prime contractor only. Prime Contractor has privity of contract with the first tier subcontractor only |
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| Authorization (HASC and SASC) |
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| Authorizes programs and target dollars to fund those programs |
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| Authorization (HASC and SASC) |
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| DIfferent verisons are reconciled in a House-Senate conference on defense authorization (National Defense Authorization Act) |
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| Contains programs, target dollars, new policy items |
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Which of the two are more powerful:
HASC and SASC
HAC and SAC |
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| Appropriation (HAC and SAC) |
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| Each marks up the Appropriations Bill and sends it on for passage by its respective house |
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| Appropriation (HAC and SAC) |
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| House - Senate confernece committee on defense appropriation meets to hammer out a common bill |
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| Appropriation (HAC and SAC) |
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| Bill goes back to the House and Senate for passage and then on to the President for signature |
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| There are two tracks - Authorization and Appropriation |
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| Of the enactment process which one is more powerful? |
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| Office of Management Budget (OMB) provides budget authority to agencies of the Federal Government |
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| Office of Mananagement and Budget (OMB) |
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| Who provides budget authority to agencies of the Federal Government |
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| Agencies turn allocate budget authority down to their subordinate elements (usually quarterly) |
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| How many independent phases for appeals are there? |
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| Must be kept in the same phase (authorization or appropriation) |
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| A HASC mark would go to where, then to the joint conference, if denied. |
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| A HAC mark would go to where, then to the joint conference, if denied. |
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| Appeals can only be made for the amount in or closest to what budget? |
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| cuts in quantities, manpower, policy language |
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| What other things can be appealed besides money? |
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| What budget is what you work for? |
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| Within the last two marks |
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| When marks to budget amounts are appealed, the appeal will be to the amount that is closest to (but does not exceed) the President's Budget within what number of marks? |
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| Can we force a company to stay in line of business? |
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| Can we force DOC/DOJ to act? |
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| Manpower, Material, Machinery, Methods, Measurement |
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| Why does the contractor want to keep costs down? |
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| Effective and Suitability (T&E results) |
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| What are addressed in BLRIP reports? |
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| To meet what statatory law, the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation (DOT&E) analyzes the results of Service conducted Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&E) for each Major Defense Acq. Program (MDAP) or designated oversight program? |
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| USD (AT&L) and to Congress |
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| DOT&E sends BLRIP reports to whom? |
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| Whether the test and evaluation performed was adequate, and if the results of such T&E confirm that the items of components actually tested are effective and suitable for combat; and any additional information |
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| If a decision is made to proceed to operational use (weapon system fielding or IOC) before the Full Rate Production Decision Review is completed, the DOT&E may issue what based on available information and deliver the final version at a later date. |
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| Secretaru of Defense, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (USD (AT&L)), and the congressional defense committee |
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| The Director of T&E submits BLRIP reports to whom? |
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| Quality Management Review |
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| Monitor, measure, analyze, control and improve processes |
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| Quality Management Review |
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| Quality Management Review |
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| Measure / verify product conformity |
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| Quality Management Review |
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| Establish mechanisms for field product performance feedback |
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| Quality Management Review |
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| Implement an effective root cause analysis and corrective action system |
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| Cannot use this to buy additional quanitites |
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| Production and Deployment |
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| What phase in the acquisiton lifecycle would must you have operation supportability? |
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| is a written preliminary contractual instrument that authorizes the contractor to begin immediately manufacuring supplies or performing services? |
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| Manufacturing supplies or performing services |
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| A letter contract is a written preliminary instrument that authorizes the contractor to begin immediately on what? |
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| Fully Mission Capable (FMC) |
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| Is the percentage of time during which the system is capable of performing all assigned missions. |
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| Is the percentage of time during which the system is capable of performing at least one of its assigned missions. |
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| FMC/MC might be better suited to multi-mission specific availabilty since Ao (Operational Availability) does not address mission specific availability for the System |
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| Why not use Operational Availabilty (Ao) |
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| Quality Management System |
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Key activities:
Monitor, Measure, analyze, control and improve processes
Reduce product variation
Measure / Verify product conformity
Establish mechanisms for field product performance and feedback
Implement an effective root cause analysis and corrective system |
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Improve
Reduce
Measure/Verify
Establish mechanisms for feedback
Implement - root cause analysis |
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| What are the key activities of quality managment? |
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| Manpower Materials Measurement Methods Machinery |
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| What are sources of variation? |
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| Defense Priorities and Allocations Systems (DPAS) |
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| Designed to be largely self-executing, however, problems can arise. Assures the timeley availabilty of industrial resources and associated services to meet current national defense emergency prepardness programs |
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| Defense Priorities and Allocations Systems (DPAS) |
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| Provide an operating system to support rapid industrial response in a national emergency |
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| Defense Production Act (DPA) |
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| President's primary authority to mobilize resources and expedite critical industrial items from the private sector |
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| Does not require an emergency declaration |
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| Special Priorities Assistance (SPA) |
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| Requests for this are most often intiatied by the prime contractor and submitted to the contract administration officer (CAO) |
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| System continues to meet / exceed thresholds/objectives for cost, schedule, performance and support parameters approved at FRPDR |
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| Every 3-5 years after IOC or changes in requirements or performance parameters |
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What are the following?
Congressional Prior Approval
Internal
Congressional Notification
Below Threshold Transfer |
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Congressional Prior Approval
Internal
Congressional Notification
Below Threshold Transfer |
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| What are the 4 reprogramming actions? |
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| USD Comptroller (USD (C)) |
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| Congressional Prior Approval is submitted through what entity? |
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| What form is used to submitted a Congressional Prior Approval? |
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| Congressional Prior Approval |
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| What kind of reprogramming? Results in a procurement quantity increase of a major end item. |
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| Congressional Prior Approval |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Affects a congressional special interest item. |
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| Congressional Prior Approval |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Involves the ues of the Secretary of Defense general transfer authority - i.e. movement of any amount of funds between appropriations) |
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| Congressional Prior Approval |
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Establishes New Programs (i.e. New Starts) which are defined as any program not explicity justified to and funded by Congress
-establishes a new procurement program or procurement subprogram estiamted to cost $20M or more within the first 3 years
-Establishes a new RDT&E program estimated at 10M or more within the first 3 years |
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Procurement Program - $20M or more within the first 3 years
RDT&E Program - $10M or more within the first 3 years |
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| What are thresholds for Congressional Prior Approval reprogramming for a new program or a new start? |
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| Congressional Prior Approval |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Termination of an appropriated program which eliminates a procurement program $20M or more or and RDT&E program $10M or more |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Submitted using a DD form 1415-1 and submitted to USD (C) |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Creates an audit trail and documents actions that realigns appropriated funds to a different line item or apporpriation for proper execution of the same requirement with no change in purpose. |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Service requested $100M in RDTE&E funds to conduct a research and development effort; Congress mistakenly appropriated $100M in procurement funds to conduct that effort. |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Does not mean within an acq. program office. |
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| Congressional Notification |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Requires a 30 day notification to the Defense Committees prior to implementation and the Component make take action on the reprogramming 30 days after this happens unless an objection is received from a committee. |
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| Congressional Notification |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Establishment of a new program or line items not otherwise requiring prior approval from Congress. |
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| Congressional Notification |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Establishment of new procurement programs,including modifications, costing less than $20M for the entire effort. |
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| Congressional Notification |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Establishment of a new development proram costing less than $10M for the entire effort. |
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| Congressional Notification |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Initiation of safety programs or safety modifications costing less than $20M for the entire effort - these can be initiated immediately following notification. |
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| Congressional Notification |
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What kind of reprogramming?
Termination of programs falling within the "below threshold reprogramming" amounts (i.e. procurement programs costing less than $20M or RDT&E progrms costing less than $10M or less as long as the procurement line item or program is not eliminated. |
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| Below Threshold Reprogramming |
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What kind of reprogramming?
This is approved by the individual Service agencies or Defense agencies. |
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| Below Threshold Reprogramming |
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What kind of reprogramming?
This includes those actions that do not meet the criteria for prior approval or internal reprogramming |
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| Obligation Availability: 2 years |
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| Obligation Availability: 3 years |
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| Obligation Availability: 1 year |
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| Obligation Availability: 1 year |
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| Obligation Availability: 5 years |
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| Level of Control: Program Element |
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| Level of Control: Line Item |
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| Level of Control: Budget Acty or Dfense Agency |
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| Level of Control: Budget Acty |
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| Level of Control: Project |
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Max Into: Lesser of +$10M or +20%
Max Out: Lesser of -$10M or -20% |
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Max Into: Lesser of +$20M or +20%
Max Out: Lesser of -$20M or -20% |
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Max Into: +$15M
Max Out: None, unless otherwise specified |
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Max Into: +$10M
Max Out: No specific congressional restriction |
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Max Into: Lesser of +$2M or +25%
Max Out: No specific congressinal restriction |
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| Manufacturing methods and processes |
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| The less "touch" labor is involved in a production process (i.e. more automation) the flatter the learning curve |
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| The more complex an item is, the steeper the learning cuver will usually be |
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| The higher the turnover rate of the workforce, the flatter the learning curve will usually be, as average worker productivity increases will be inhibited by turnover. |
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| Interrupting production can lead to changes in the historical learning curve |
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| Should be applied to the production poriton of a sytsem's cost estimate. May be derived from actual observation of the production line or analogy to similiar systems that have previously been produced |
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Manpower
Measurement
Material
Machinery
Methods |
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| Generalized types of resources that must be obtained and put in place to manufactur a product. |
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| This concept also serves as risk identification and mitigation technique and failure anlaysis tool. |
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| Prompts the reviewer/planner to identify the acutal or potential impacts of a particular action upon the existing or expected arrangement of resources. |
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| Statistical Process Control |
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| Is way to monitor and understand a process in order to reduce inherent variability |
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Design
Manufacturing Capability Control
Inspection Method |
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| What are the four producibility factors |
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| No, SPA bridge - A bridge to work with them. |
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| Can we force a company to stay in aline of business? |
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| Congressional Prior Approval |
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Focus on this one:
Which reprogramming action:
Has a subset of transfer:
Involves the use of SECDEF general transfer authoried - (movement of funds between appropriations) |
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| Requires approrpriated funds be used only for goods and services for which a need arises during the period of that appropriation's availability for obligaion. |
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