Allows the contracting officer to issue a unilateral change to the contract as long as the change is within the scope of the contract and is

• change to drawings, designs or specs
• method of shipping or packing
• place of delivery

• Authorizes programs and targets dollars to fund those programs
• Different versions are reconciled in a House-Senate conference on defense authorization (National Defense Authorization Act)
• Contains programs, target dollars, new policy items

• Each marks up the Appropriations Bill and sends it on for passage by its respective House
• House-Senate confernece committe on defense appropriation meets to hammer out a common bill
• Bill goes back to the House and Senate for passage and then on to the President for signature

Which is more powerful?

HAC/SAC or HASC/SASC?

• Affects spending obligations at the acty level
• Prohibts anyone from making or authorizing an obligation in excess of the amount available in an appropriation or in excess of the amount permitted by agency regulations
• Forbids the government from obligating funds in advance of appropriations
• Requires an administrative control system

SPI = Schedule Efficiency

The program is currently behind schedule

CPI cost efficiency - how much work is done per dollar spent

Program is currently over budget

Estimate at Completion: TAB=BAC + Management Reserve

• Procurement Quantity increase
• Affects item of special congressional interest
• Exceeds specific $$ thresholds (i.e. SECDEF general transfer authority or BTR threshold)
• Establishes a new program
• Involves the termination of an approved program
• Usually done by services as part of annual omibus reprogramming submission
• New procurement line item equal to or greater than $20M
• New RDT$E program of $10M or more

• Requires apporval of USD (Comptroller)
• No change in purpose
• Documents realignment of funds to a different line item
• May be used to correct mistakes in appropriations
• Does not mean internal to an acquisistion program

• Requires a 30 day notification to Defense Committees
• No action until 30 days after such notification
• Establishes a new program
• Est new procurement program including mods costing less than <$20M for the entire effort
• Est new development effort costing less than <$10M or more for the entire effort
• Initiation of safety modifications less than <$20M
• Terminination of programs falling below BTR amounts

Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)

RDT&E

Max into: Lesser of +$10M or 20%

Max out: Lesser of -$10M or 20%

Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)

Procurement

Max Into: Lesser of +$20M or 20%

Max Out: Lesser of -$20M or 20%

Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)

O&M

Max Into: +$15M

Max Out: none

Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)

MILPERS

Max Into: +$10M

Max Out: None

Below Threshold Reprogramming (BTR)

MILCON

Max into: Lesser of +$2M or +25%

Max Out None

•is the President’s primary authority to mobilize resources and expedite critical industrial items from the private sector.

•does not require an emergency declaration

•Requests for assistance are submitted through the relevant Delegate Agency using what form? for the following: 

–An urgent need for the item

–The applicant has made a reasonable effort to resolve the problem

–Timeliness to allow for solution

SPA may be provided for any reason in support of the DPAS regulation but is usually provided in these types of situations

What is the below pertain to?

1) Difficulty in obtaining delivery against a rated order by the required delivery date

2) Inability to locate a supplier to fill a rated order

3) Ensuring rated orders receive preferential treatment by suppliers

4) Resolving production or delivery conflicts between various rated orders

5) Assisting in placing rated orders with suppliers

6) Verifying the urgency of rated orders

7) Determining the validity of rated orders

RDT&E: 2 years

Procurement: 3 years

OMN and MILPERS: 1 year

MILCON: 5 years

Available for payments and adjustments (up or down) to existing obligations. 

Not available for new obligations or increased scope on exisitng obligations

No longer available for payments or obligations

Adjustments and payments are charged to currently available appropriation of same type, up to lesser of 1% of currently available appropriation or unexpended balance of closed appropriation.

defined as any unwanted condition or as the difference between a current and a desired end-state

Machine vibration, vibration, temperature fluctuations, raw material variations, human variation in setting control dials.

If these causes of variation are present, the output of the process forms a distribution that is stable over time and is predictable.

Need management to resolve since process change is required.

Anything that causes variations that are not part of the stable process.

batch of defective material, bad set-up, human error, Human error, Incorrect recipe, Blown gasket, earthquake.

If these causes of variation are present, the process output is unstable over time and is not predictable.

Resolved by local workers. 

special cause,assignable cause, or unnatural cause

common cause, random cause, or natural cause)

Tightening Specification Limits will solve

This will solve:

-- Amount of Defective Product Delivered to Customer

Tightening Specification Limits Will NOT solve

This  Will NOT solve

-- Physical Causes of the Variations that are the defects

-- Costs of scrapping/reworking defects

-- Final Costs to the Customer of Bad processes & products

Must Have what that are are simultaneously Capable Of Providing product that meets Specification Limits, AND that are In Control,  i.e. where the  process outputs are Repeatable and Predictable, given consistent inputs

Process Control versus Capability

1. Capable / In Control

2. Capable / Not in Control

3. Not Capable / In Control

4. Not Capable / Not in Control

–Engineering Changes

–Requirements and Specifications

–Material Properties

–Service Environment

–Mission Profile

–Manufacturing Process

–Measurement System

-Tooling

–Focuses attention on detecting and monitoringprocess variation over time

–Distinguishes special from common causes of variation, as a guide to local or management action

–Provides a common language for discussing process performance