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Configuration Management
Where is that document? Is it the right revision? Is the ECP approved? Do we have the latest specification? OSS&E compliance? Whether your organization is acquiring systems or sustaining them, the configuration management of the relevant data plays a critical role in cost avoidance. TopVue's CMvue provides adaptable capability for weapon system configuration management (CM) in support of key acquisition and sustainment processes. CMvue supports singular programs, joint programs, and base-wide activities as well.
For acquisition programs, CM along with data management (DM) starts with identifying and tracking contractual documentation, including acquisition funding documents, statements of objectives, RFP and contract documents, system specifications, and requirements baselines. As the program progresses and contracts are awarded, managing configuration baselines of documents received from vendor(s) is essential to efficiently managing the progress of the program. Meanwhile, government furnished information (GFI) and contractor-related correspondence needs to be monitored and referenced, while program control, systems engineering, risk management, and logistics planning processes accumulate documentation and data. Audits in terms of FCAs and PCAs are performed and actions tracked. For changes that occur as contract modifications and ECPs, impacts and approvals are boarded (CCB) and assessed in light of the systems and documentation affected. CMvue supports these required acquisition CM needs off-the-shelf along with transitioning data to downstream fielding and sustainment program phases.
CMvue for sustainment supports the diverse configuration management needs for fielded weapon systems. For sustainment programs, CM plays a key role in monitoring system and equipment baseline changes in light of both modification and service-life extension programs. Modification programs are identified with systems, configuration items, and/or parts affected. Baseline activities take place to document the engineering and logistics data for a fielded weapon system. Information for parts, documents, drawings, software items, and technical manuals are tracked and interrelated in a centralized web repository. Once changes are identified against a baseline, impact analysis is performed to assess the breadth and cost of other items affected. Sustainment-oriented changes take the form of ECPs, ECOs, software problem reports, and technical manual changes. Systems engineering review boards and CCBs help disparate teams review and approve the various changes. Part-related legacy data, inventory data, operational data, and historical data are gathered to support budgeting in light of obsolescence challenges.
"Needed (TopVue) for OSS&E, CM compliance." -TopVue Customer
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