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As the core contract program support for the Global Combat Support System-Marine Corps (GCSS-MC) IR Tech instituted a systems engineering program consisting of foundational processes such as risk, requirements, and configuration management that are controlled and repeatable. IR Tech also created and documented within the program System Engineering Plan (SEP) a series of technical reviews tailored to commercial and Defense Department acquisition and development processes to benchmark program progress.

A key component of the IR Tech technical management approach has been linking system requirements between system developer engineering documentation and DoD 5000 required documentation such as the Test Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), Information Support Plan (ISP), SEP, and Capabilities Production Document (CPD). IR Tech personnel authored those four DoD 5000 documents in addition to the Capabilities Development Document (CDD). Another major component of our system engineering approach was integration of contracts and contract administration in configuration management. Contract integration with configuration management led to rapid system understanding by the Contracts Officer, fostering quicker processing of contract changes and contract statement of work development.

In order to successfully support GCSS-MC integration objectives, IR Tech staff developed and deployed data related strategies, executed Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) activities and created staffed Interface Control Documents (ICDs) and interface Memorandums of Agreement (MOAs) with external agencies. IR Tech personnel provided a draft Data Management Strategy, Data Management Plan, Data Quality Strategy, and Data Quality Plan. Our personnel implemented these integration processes for the on-going conversion, interface, report and extension design, build, and V&V activities for the program’s commercial enterprise resource planning (ERP) effort. In order to put into production the final system, IR Tech personnel implemented a formal integration and conversion strategy that successfully extracted, staged, profiled, converted, and loaded legacy data from multiple systems while executing live interfaces to conduct transactions and data refresh.

IR Tech authored and managed the GCSS-MC requirements management process that gathered, analyzed, tracked, traced, controlled, prioritized, and implemented system requirements. Under the IR Tech process all system components such as hardware, software, manuals, policies (to include Information Assurance (IA)), and procedures created during development were linked to requirements within the allocated baseline; the functional requirements were traced directly to functional capabilities within the product baseline. Test plans used traceability to verify and prove to the Marine Corps that GCSS-MC was complete and meets requirements. IR Tech introduced Telelogic DOORS to the program to capture, link, analyze, and manage changes to requirements and their traceability. Our personnel automated requirements linking and traceability in DOORS saving GCSS-MC ~$100,000 and months of complex requirements tracking due to reducing manual resources required to enter over 750 program documents into the system.

IR Tech has extensive expertise in the establishment, management, and maintenance of Configuration Management (CM) processes and procedures at the enterprise and program levels. We established processes and procedures for CM Planning, Configuration Identification, Configuration Change Control, Configuration Status Accounting (CSA), Configuration Verification, Audit, & Reviews, & Configuration Reporting to maintain control of changes to and effects on the GCSS-MC Solution baselines and to minimize the impacts to program cost, schedule, and performance related to baseline changes.  An IR Tech benefit is the ability to tailor CM processes on-the-fly to mitigate the impacts of historical developmental trends. Our responsiveness reduces those impacts current risks, issues, and problems.

Metrics development and reporting formed the final critical aspect of the IR Tech system engineering methodology. IR Tech developed measurement tools such as custom software development tracking tools, system interface validation monitoring, and defect and issue analysis to lend weight to weekly analysis with government team leads of program progress.