Lessons Learned: Production Restart of a Major Weapons System.

摘要

The purpose of the report is to provide insight into the peculiar problems that arise during restart of a weapons system after a prolonged break in production. The situation considered is the restart of production of the Short Range Attack Missile (SRAM) which will be required in the event a decision is made to produce the B-1 aircraft. The problem is significant since production of the SRAM was completed in july 1975 and restart activity in support of the B-1 would not occur until 1977 at the earliest. The report includes a discussion of Program Office planning. Initial and follow-on planning is compared and changes in emphasis and assessment of risk are noted. Planning areas covered include mandatory and desirable configuration changes, performance improvement, nuclear hardness and warhead requirements. Impact to program cost and schedule is also discussed. The report concludes that: production restart planning must be built around system requirements; production restart planning should be concerned with repproducing the existing design; planning effort to improve system performance is not productive. Production restart will involve a great many unknowns; and detailed planning is necessary to resolve restart problems.