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EVMS Advance Agreement Letter of Acceptance

The Advanced Agreement (AA) between the DoD Program Office and contractor specifies that the contractor maintains and uses the accepted EVMS as an integral management process on current as well as future contracts. The AA also documents the Government’s intent to minimize system reviews.  The AA also documents a contractor’s corporate commitment to continue to […]

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Joint Service Specification Guides (JSSG)

The Joint Service Specification Guides (JSSG) establish a common framework to be used by Government-Industry Program Teams in the Aviation Sector for developing program unique requirements documents for Air Systems, Air Vehicles, and major Subsystems. Each JSSG contains a compilation of candidate references, generically stated requirements, verification criteria, and associated rationale, guidance, and lessons learned

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Earned Value Management Central Repository (EVM-CR)

The PARCA Earned Value Management Central Repository (EVM-CR) is a CR that helps to improve the quality, utility, and availability of the Earned Value Management (EVM) data for the purposes of establishing acquisition situational awareness. It’s a joint effort between Defense Cost and Resource Center (DCARC), and the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSD) (A&S), managed

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Initial Capabilities Document (ICD)

The Initial Capabilities Document (ICD) documents the need for a materiel approach or an approach that is a combination of materiel and non-materiel, to a specific capability gap.  A capability gap is derived from an initial analysis of materiel approaches executed by the operational user and, as required, an independent analysis of materiel alternatives. It

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DoD EVMS Roles and Responsibility

  DoD Acquisition and Sustainment (OSD/A&S) The office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, Acquisition Resources and Analysis, Acquisition Management (OUSD/AT&L (ARA/AM)) oversees all EVM policy development within DoD. – See OSD Earned Value Website   DoD Executive Agent Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) is designated as the DoD Executive Agent for

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Good Requirement Practices

The following table presents some good practices for managing requirements, an assessment of the costs to introduce and apply each practice, and the key benefits resulting from those practices. [1] AcqLinks and References: Sawyer, P., Sommerville, I. and S. Viller, “Capturing the Benefits of Requirements Engineering,” IEEE Software, March/April 1999, pp. 78-85  Updated: 7/27/2017

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Earn Value Management in Software

Earned Value Management (EVM) is a Project Management technique for measuring project performance and progress in an objective manner. It’s a key integrating process in the management and oversight of acquisition programs, to include Software Management. EVM must be applied to manage and control software development and the strategy should be included in the Software

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Functional Needs Analysis (FNA)

A Functional Needs Analysis (FNA) assesses current and future capabilities to meet the military objectives of the scenarios chosen in the Functional Area Analysis (FAA) and is an output of the Capabilities Based Assessment (CBA). Using military scenarios, the FNA assesses whether or not an inability to achieve a desired effect exists to determine if

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Deficiencies in Validated EVMS

Deficiencies may be uncovered either in the Earned Value Management (EVM) system processes or in the consistency and discipline of the validated processes. These deficiencies may be discovered during routine surveillance, during analysis of performance data or during team reviews. The information provided details the specific area(s) of deviation. The procuring activity and EVM Support

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DCMA EVMS Compliance Reviews

The purpose and objectives of a Defense Contract Management Agency’s (DCMA) Earned Value Management System (EVMS) Compliance Review is to make sure a contractor is effectively using an internal cost and schedule management control systems and for the Government to be able to rely on accurate, valid, reliable, timely, and auditable data produced by those

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