Expanded Guidance for NASA Systems Engineering: Volume 2: Crosscutting Topics, Special Topics, and Appendices (March, 2016) NASA/SP-2016-6105-SUPPL

Historically, most successful NASA projects have depended on effectively blending project management, systems engineering, and technical expertise among NASA, contractors, and third parties. Underlying these successes are a variety of agreements (e.g., contract, memorandum of understanding, grant, cooperative agreement) between NASA organizations or between NASA and other Government agencies, Government organizations, companies, universities, research laboratories, and so on. To simplify the discussions, the term “contract” is used to encompass these agreements.This section focuses on the NASA systems engineering activities pertinent to awarding a contract, managing contract performance, and completing a contract. In particular, NASA systems engineering interfaces to the procurement process are covered, since the NASA engineering technical team plays a key role in the development and evaluation of contract documentation.Contractors and third parties perform activities that supplement (or substitute for) the NASA project technical team accomplishment of the NASA common systems engineering technical process activities and requirements outlined in this guide. Since contractors might be involved in any part of the systems engineering life cycle, the NASA project technical team needs to know how to prepare for, allocate or perform, and implement surveillance of technical activities that are allocated to contractors.Crosscutting TopicsConcurrent Engineering MethodsSelecting Engineering Design ToolsEnvironmental, Nuclear Safety, and Planetary Protection Policy ComplianceUse of the Metric SystemSystems Engineering on Multi-Level/Multi-Phase ProgramsFault ManagementTechnical MarginsHuman Systems Integration (HSI) in the SE ProcessSpecial TopicsStatistical Engineering as a ToolModel-Based Systems EngineeringAppendix A: AcronymsAppendix B: Glossary.Appendix C: How to Write a Good Requirement - ChecklistAppendix D: Requirements Verification MatrixAppendix E: Creating the Validation Plan with a Validation Requirements MatrixAppendix F: Functional, Timing, and State AnalysisAppendix G: Technology Assessment / InsertionAppendix I: Verification and Validation Plan OutlineAppendix J: SEMP Content OutlineAppendix K: Technical PlansAppendix L: Interface Requirements Document OutlineAppendix M: CM Plan Outline.Appendix N: Guidance on Technical Peer Reviews/InspectionsAppendix O: ReservedAppendix P: SOW Review ChecklistAppendix Q: ReservedAppendix R: HSI Plan Content OutlineAppendix S: Concept of Operations Annotated OutlineAppendix T: Systems Engineering in Phase ETransition from Development to OperationsT.3 System Engineering Processes in Phase E Read more