Commercial ATS program management

Author

Schwarz, Chuck ; Pothier, Charles

Author_Institution

Teradyne Inc., Agoura Hills, CA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

306

Lastpage

312

Abstract

With the defense industry´s ever-increasing reliance on Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Automatic Test Systems (ATS) and commercial suppliers, there is a need to recognize and actively manage the gap between the expectations of the defense industry and the commercial community. The key to a successful program has proven to be investing time during the proposal stage and at contract award to clearly define the COTS deliverables and the level of detail of required data. This requires discipline from the supplier (engineering, sales, and the proposal team) as well as the procuring agency to agree that the time investment is worthwhile. This paper examines the problem and outlines proven strategies in managing this gap

Keywords

automatic test equipment; automatic test software; management of change; military computing; military standards; COTS ATS; COTS deliverables; SDRL; change management; data items; defense procurement; flexibility; program management; time investment; Automatic testing; Contracts; Costs; Defense industry; Documentation; Investments; Marketing and sales; Procurement; Proposals; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

AUTOTESTCON Proceedings, 2001. IEEE Systems Readiness Technology Conference

Conference_Location

Valley Forge, PA

ISSN

1080-7225

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7094-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AUTEST.2001.948975

Filename

948975