Requirements Management System (RMS) for NAVAIR's
Systems Engineering Resource Center (SERC)
In 2009, Holmes-Tucker (H-T) won an openly competed five-year Basic Purchase Agreement (BPA) contract to provide Requirements Management Services to any NAVAIR or NAVAIR-affiliated program. The overall contract (and NSERC) objective is to develop and maintain program requirements information in common formats that will enable cross-program management and oversight.
The NAVAIR RMS is a computer-based information management system that assists in the development, linkage, and validation of system requirements and provides traceable flow down to system design, product specifications and test plans. H-T's RMS uses IBM's Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS) as the core data engine, combined with an internally developed MS Office interface. This system incorporates and compliments established NAVAIR processes and formats, as well as NMCI desktop/laptop configurations.
While continuously updating information that must be readily accessible to current and future project personnel, H-T's RMS System Administrator/Analysts establishes and maintains relationships among higher-level program guidance, USN requirements, system specification/capability documents, and the supporting analyses. These interrelationships facilitate RMS validation of proposed specification changes against user requirements and analysis of future mission tasks. The RMS helps identify deficiencies in existing program baselines and program requirements creep through automated gap analysis and paragraph-level linkage to sources and references. These linkages also improve the relationship between requirements-related and contractual documents.
The RMS directly assists production, review, validation, publication, and maintenance of classified and unclassified program technical documentation and other related materials that are generated as programs mature. The system markedly reduces requirements review and development cycle times, and can generate draft requirements for future systems from information already residing in the system. The RMS maintains a detailed, permanent historical record of changes to project documents and associated supporting rationale, as well as traceable linkages among all related documents; thereby enabling the user to identify and display interrelated program elements that are potentially impacted by changes to any other. This last capability is critically important to several "cross system" NAVAIR programs such as the Joint Precision Approach and Landing System, Combat Identification and CVN 21.
Programs currently using this system are:
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