SMC-S-014

Abstract

<strong>Purpose</strong> <br>This document defines fundamental survivability program management requirements for the system acquisition life-cycle. As a management standard, this document requires that the contractor shall: <br>a. Identify the hardness allocations to the building blocks that make up a survivability program for each design concept. <br>b. Describe how these basic elements are integrated into concurrent activities and disciplines within a contractor's overall hardware program. <br>c. Draft and establish a survivability program and set up the necessary infrastructure to sustain it and to effectively carry out the prescribed survivability tasks. <br>d. Identify the necessary order and sequence for timely execution of all tasks in a survivability program plan (SPP) including review of the vulnerability assessment. <br>The technical aspects of survivability, as well as methodology for implementation, shall be detailed in the contractor's survivability and vulnerability program plan (SVPP). Therefore, this document should facilitate the establishment of an efficient and effective survivability engineering program that is an integral part of a contractor's systems engineering organization. <br><strong>Application</strong> <br>This document is applicable to space systems (i.e., composed of space, link, and ground support segments) that are required to operate within specified performance boundaries when exposed to natural environments and/or hostile threats. All probable hostile threats shall be investigated, including combinations of directed energy, laser, biological, and chemical attacks as a minimum. <br><strong>Tailoring</strong> <br>The acquisition authority and the contractor shall work together to tailor this standard, to meet the system threat requirements for each particular program unique mission.<b><u>Intended Use:</u></b> This document is intended to facilitate the establishment of an effective and efficient systems engineering survivability program. That goal will be realized if a systematic approach for survivability specification requirements is developed, documented, and implemented. Development of that approach results in the SVPP, which balances the management and technical aspects of survivability engineering. Because this document only addresses the management aspects of the contractor's survivability program, specific survivability specification requirements are only generally referred to. Application of this document is primarily the responsibility of the prime contractor. However, other system contractors are encouraged to use this document as a survivability engineering management guidelines document. Additionally, representative SVPP section and subsection headings, are informative supplements to this document. Contractor as used in this document implies either the prime contractor, associate contractor(s), subcontractors or suppliers and/or vendors. This document should be implemented in a manner that is consistent with AFR 80-38, AFR 57-1 and National Security Space Acquisition Policy Number 03-01 dated October 6, 2003.<br>