How NASA Will Do SLS Affordably

The usual buzzphrases:

5) Lean, Integrated Teams with Accelerated Decision Making

4) Right Sized Documentation and Standards

3) Risk-Informed Government Insight/Oversight Model

2) Robust Designs and Margins

1) Evolvable Development Approach

[In reverse order, ‘cuz I pulled them off Ed Ellegood’s Twitter feed]

As I tweeted him back, those tricks never work. Not on a cost-plus program where you have to spread the pork.

10 thoughts on “How NASA Will Do SLS Affordably”

  1. I’m too late. I got nothing after MfK and Larry.

    On buzzphrase 1, I look forward to NASA Wars, the sequal to Pentagon Wars.

  2. They need to leverage their key competencies and optimize their human resources by using multiple complementary ontologies.

  3. All the while developing an operational integraged synchronized object-oriented battle-space enterprise architecture to leverage the synergy.

  4. Agree about #3. As long is it NASA or Congress making the risk assessment, you are essentially dealing with immunity from the consequences. CxP cancellation may have hurt various NASA contractors, but it did nothing to the NASA/Congress oversight. Instead, it was just replaced with MPCV/SLS and no RIF.

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