Sec. 827. Revision to requirements relating to risk reduction in development of major defense acquisition programs
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Section 203 of the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 is amended to read as follows: The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the acquisition strategy for each major defense acquisition program for which development activities are required includes the following: A comprehensive approach to identifying and addressing risk (including technical, cost and schedule risk) during the period preceding full rate production as a means to improve programmatic decisionmaking and appropriately manage program concurrency.
Documentation of the major sources of risk identified and the approach to retiring that risk. The elements of a comprehensive approach to identifying and addressing risk for purposes of subsection (a)(1) shall include some combination of the following as appropriate for the item or system being acquired: Development planning. Systems engineering. Integrated developmental and operational test. Preliminary and critical design reviews and technical reviews. Prototyping (including prototyping at the system or subsystem level and competitive prototyping, where appropriate).
Modeling and simulation. Technology demonstrations and technology off ramps. Multiple design approaches. Alternative, lower risk reduced performance designs. Schedule and funding margins for specific risks. Independent risk element assessments by outside subject matter experts. Program phasing to address high risk areas as early as possible. .