Systems Engineering - Answers comprises a methodical and disciplined approach for the
specification, design, development, realization, technical management, operations, and
retirement of a system.
Engineering processes - Answers apply critical thinking in a structured multi-disciplined
approach to solve problems, including the balance of cost, schedule, and performance while
maintaining an acceptable level of risk.
System - Answers is an aggregation of system elements and enabling system elements that
achieves a given purpose or provides a needed capability.
System Element - Answers include configuration items, subsystems, segments, components,
assemblies, and parts.
Enabling System Elements - Answers provide the means for delivering a capability into service,
keeping it in service, or ending its service, and may include those processes or products
necessary for developing, producing, testing, deploying, and sustaining the system. may include
but is not limited to hardware, software, people, data, processes, facilities, and tools.
Standard - Answers Establishes uniform engineering or technical criteria, methods, processes,
and practices. (MIL-STD-962)
Specification - Answers Describes essential technical requirements for materiel and the criteria
for determining whether those requirements are met. (MIL-STD-961)
S&T - Answers Transitions technological developments for use by operational forces
Demonstrates new and emerging technologies that have a direct application to military systems
Evaluates technologies that are intended to be implemented into future military systems to
provide a sound basis for acquisition decisions
T&E - Answers Compares a system or components against requirements and specifications
through testing. The results are evaluated to assess progress of design, performance, and
supportability.
Life Cycle Logistics - Answers is a multifunctional, technical management discipline associated
with the entire life cycle of a system. The principal objectives are to ensure that: Support
considerations are an integral part of the system's design requirements so that the system can
be cost-effectively supported throughout its life cycle
Infrastructure elements necessary for the initial fielding and operational support of the system
are identified, developed, and acquired
Production, Quality, and Manufacturing (PQM) - Answers The goal of this is to ensure the
, producibility of the system design; meaning, the relative ease of manufacturing an item or
system. Designing for producibility reduces both schedule and cost risks.
Hardware/Software Engineering - Answers The application of a systematic, disciplined,
quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of hardware and
software.
Cybersecurity Sys Engring - Answers encompasses all of the necessary actions taken to ensure
the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability (CIA) of system information to enable warfighting
operations.
FFRDC - Answers is an activity sponsored under a broad charter by a Government agency (or
agencies) for the purpose of performing, analyzing, integrating, supporting, and managing basic
or applied research and/or development.
70% - Answers An FFRDC must meet criteria: a. receive [what %?] or more of its financial
support from the government, b. A long-term relationship is contemplated, c. have most or all of
its facilities owned or funded by the government, and d. have access to government and
supplier data, employees, and facilities beyond that common in a normal contractual
relationship.
1. Sys Engr and Integration Centers
2. Study and Analysis Centers
3. R&D Centers (includes national labs) - Answers FFRDCs are grouped into three categories.
what are they?
No - Answers Do FFRDCs have a profit motive or conflicts of interest?
Government customer - Answers Who do FFRDCs answer to?
None - Answers Which technologies and solutions to FFRDCs have vested interests in?
No - Answers Do FFRDCs compete for fed contracts against non-FFRDCs?
Basic Research - Answers are used for scientific study and experimentation directed toward
increasing knowledge and understanding in the science fields and discovering phenomena that
can be exploited for military purposes
Applied Research - Answers projects that apply scientific research findings to real-world
problems to generate and test new technologies with potential military utility.
Advanced Technology Demonstration (ATD) - Answers used to demonstrate the military utility
of completed applied research projects. These projects are conducted to demonstrate the
feasibility and maturity of new technology as well as reduce technical risk before the technology
is used in an acquisition program