IMPACTS; how to get more out of what you´ve got [weapons system acquisition]

Author

Mohney, Jack D.

Author_Institution

Div. of Aeronaut. Syst., Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA

fYear

1989

fDate

22-26 May 1989

Firstpage

1424

Abstract

The author discusses the use of IMPACTS (Integrated Manpower, Personnel, And Comprehensive Training & Safety), the new US Air Force acquisition approach that implements congressional law and US Department of Defense (DoD) manpower, personnel, training, and safety (MPTS) policy. Until now, the Air Force had no formal program that fully integrated these human-centered elements directly into the weapons system acquisition process (WSAP). The author focuses on the conceptual underpinnings of MPTS in system design, congressional and DoD MPTS direction, and the specific management structure of IMPACTS. He examines the effects that this new Air Force acquisition program may have on government acquisition and contractor engineering procedures and documentation

Keywords

human factors; management; military systems; personnel; training; weapons; DoD MPTS policy; IMPACTS; US Air Force; US Department of Defense; USAF; congressional law; contractor engineering procedures; documentation; government acquisition; management structure; manpower; personnel; safety; training; weapons system acquisition process; Air safety; Costs; Design engineering; Lifting equipment; Maintenance engineering; Management training; Military aircraft; Personnel; Railway safety; Weapons;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1989. NAECON 1989., Proceedings of the IEEE 1989 National

Conference_Location

Dayton, OH

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NAECON.1989.40399

Filename

40399