Location
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Atlantis Rooms
Start Date
25-4-1996 1:00 PM
End Date
25-4-1996 5:00 PM
Description
The Space Test& Evaluation Division (TEO) of the Space and Missile System Center has managed the development of a client-server, open architecture, distributed processing, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) based telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) system called the Center for Research Support (CERES) for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) for the past three years at the National Test Facility at Falcon AFB, CO. Partially because we have been severely budget constrained for this effort, but as much or more because of TEO’s extensive total quality focus over the past several years, TEO has taken a very different management approach to the acquisition and development of CERES. Happily, the new technology lends itself nicely to this approach, particularly since the industry is still rapidly evolving, giving the government (us) a chance to help steer its path. This paper describes our management approach and draws comparisons between it and the more familiar acquisition/development approach to which we in the government have been accustomed.
Paper Session III-A - Lessons Learned in the Development and Integration of a Cots-Based Satellite TT&C System
Howard Johnson Plaza-Hotel, Columbia/ Atlantis Rooms
The Space Test& Evaluation Division (TEO) of the Space and Missile System Center has managed the development of a client-server, open architecture, distributed processing, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) based telemetry, tracking and control (TT&C) system called the Center for Research Support (CERES) for the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) for the past three years at the National Test Facility at Falcon AFB, CO. Partially because we have been severely budget constrained for this effort, but as much or more because of TEO’s extensive total quality focus over the past several years, TEO has taken a very different management approach to the acquisition and development of CERES. Happily, the new technology lends itself nicely to this approach, particularly since the industry is still rapidly evolving, giving the government (us) a chance to help steer its path. This paper describes our management approach and draws comparisons between it and the more familiar acquisition/development approach to which we in the government have been accustomed.
Comments
Current and Future Launch Vehicles and Facilities
Session Chairman: Erik C. Anderson, USAF, Chief Space Launch Division, Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Acquisition
Session Organizer: Gil Gilbert