This standard covers Manpower and Personnel (M&P) processes throughout planning, design, development, test, production, use, and disposal of a system. Depending on contract phase and/or complexity of the program, tailoring can be applied. The scope of this standard includes Prime and Subcontractor M&P activities; it does not include Government M&P activities.
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Ensuring that the system design complies with the latest customer Manpower estimates (numbers and mix of personnel, plus availability) and that discrepancies are reported to management and the customer.
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Ensuring that the system design is regularly compared to the latest customer personnel estimates (capabilities and limitations) and that discrepancies are reported to management and the customer.
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Identifying, coordinating, tracking, and resolving M&P risks and issues and ensuring that they are:
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Reflected in the contractor proposal, budgets, and plans.
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Raised at design, management, and program reviews.
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Debated in Working Group meetings.
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Coordinated with Training, Logistics, and the other HSI disciplines.
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Included appropriately in documentation and deliverable data items.
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Identifying and pursuing opportunities to reduce Manpower and Personnel demands and costs.
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Ensuring that M&P considerations are addressed in analyses, design decisions, trade-offs, and design changes (e.g., ECPs).
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Conducting Manpower and Personnel analysis activities and supporting human factors analyses (e.g., workload analysis) and other HSI domain analyses to provide evidence to support design decisions and trade-offs and to coordinate shared data (e.g., task analyses).
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Ensuring that M&P analyses and results are timely, technically competent/complete, and in a format that enables them to be included in design decisions, tradeoffs, and changes.
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Ensuring that M&P issues discovered in test, evaluation, demonstration, Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E), and operations are tracked and resolved in a technically competent/complete and timely manner.
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Ensuring that the subjects used in experiments, simulations, tests, evaluations, and demonstrations are consistent with the customer’s latest projected target audiences.