System ENgineering

  1. You bid the program with a budget of $24 million (BAC = $24 million) with a $2 million management reserve to be completed in 12 months.Although we know the expenditures will not be linear, let’s assume a straight-line relationship between time and budget for this exercise.  At month 5 we find we should be at $10 million (BCWS) (straight-line plan of $2 million spent each month * 5 months), we have completed enough work to justify an expenditure of $8 million (BCWP) and our actual costs accrued to date are $6 million. (ACWP)
  1.  (25 points)  Outline what you believe the current status of the project is and interpret what the projections mean to you.   Using only this cost data, how can you project time to complete?
  2. (25 points) Outline what you believe the action plan should be to bring Project AKS in on-schedule, on-budget and meet the customer requirements.
  1. You are the Chief Systems Engineer for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).  The facts are as follows:

 

  1. (25 points) The JSF is expected to fly for decades.  Using the Systems Engineering techniques we have discussed in class, please outline a plan for how you would achieve “technological agnosticity” using the tools we have discussed.

  1. (25 points)  After you have spent billions of dollars and decades of time, you have identified that there is a major problem with the plane.  Using modern incident analysis techniques like the ones we have developed in class, please create a systems engineering risk mitigation and post-failure analysis plan to get the JSF back on track from a performance perspective.  Given the space limitation you will simply need to outline the steps in the plan rather than develop these in great detail.  Some supporting materials:

  1. In Dr. Deming’s Fourteen Points he highlights the need to “Drive Out Fear”.
  1.  (25 points)  Please define what this means to you having taken this course and why you believe this is so important.
  1. (25 points)  What tools have we can introduced that could help “Drive Out Fear?”  Why and how would they support this desire?
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