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Mary Ann Lapham
Technical Note
CMU/SEI-2006-TN-023
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Many Department of Defense (DoD) development programs, such as aircraft
development programs, are typically complex and long-lived. Often, these
programs are structured to demonstrate significant capability in the form of
prototypes, which may be additionally intended to provide lingering
operational capability. As such, technology development activities frequently
include design reviews known as the Initial Design Review (IDR) and the Final
Design Review (FDR) that are not present in most other systems acquisitions.
IDR and FDR content is not explicitly defined in
regulations or policies; rather, it is defined by the program office. However,
since IDR and FDR are the Technology Development phase's equivalent to
Preliminary Design Review and Critical Design Review, this technical note
proposes that they should have similar criteria, scaled for Technology
Development work.
This technical note presents definitions of IDR and FDR, their context in
the acquisition life cycle, a comparison of engineering emphasis during IDR
and FDR, IDR and FDR pre- and postconditions, and IDR and FDR criteria and how
to apply it. The audiences for this technical note are managers and developers
of medium to large DoD systems that employ technology that is not mature
enough to transition directly to systems development.
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