DANSK DSF/ISO/IEC/IEEE FDIS 24748-8 PDF

1.1 Scope This standard establishes the requirements for technical reviews and audits to be performed throughout the acquisition life cycle for the US Department of Defense (DoD) and other defense agencies. This standard provides the definition, description, and intent, as well as the entry, exit and success criteria, for each technical review and audit. It is to be used to establish agreement between acquirers and suppliers on the technical reviews and audits that are needed for the project, as well as the focus and expectations of each technical review and audit. 1.2 Purpose This standard is intended to elaborate the technical review and audit clause of ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, System life-cycle processes, for use by the DoD and other defense agencies in acquiring systems (and parts thereof) or services. It amplifies ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288, subclause 6.3.2.3.a, for selection, negotiation, agreement, and performance of the necessary technical reviews and audits, while allowing tailoring flexibility for the variety of acquisition situations/environments when the technical reviews or audits are conducted. While primarily supporting the acquirer-supplier agreement mode, this standard also can be used to support the other modes such as use by organizations, projects, and process assessors.1.3 Field of application This standard addresses the needs of the defense community with respect to the incorporation, implementation, and execution of technical reviews and audits. IEEE Std 15288.1-2014, the standard that implements ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 for application on defense programs, provides the defense-specific language and terminology to ensure the correct application of acquirer-supplier requirements for technical reviews and audits on a defense program, while this standard provides the implementation details to fulfill those requirements.2 1.4 Organization of this standard Subclause 1.5 defines what it means for an organization, project, or other users such as process authors and assessors to claim conformance with this standard. Clause 2 defines normative references, i.e., documents that are indispensable in the application of this standard. Clause 3 provides definitions of terms peculiar to this standard, as well as acronyms and abbreviations used in this standard. Clause 4 provides an overview of technical reviews and audits. It defines them, discusses their role in the US DoD acquisition life cycle, and their support of specific ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288 processes. It answers questions such as: “What are technical reviews and audits?” “Why perform them?” “Is there a standard set of them, and if so, what are they?” Clause 5 specifies the minimum set of required properties for each technical review and audit that form the basis for agreement between defense program acquirers and suppliers. Clause 6 provides the detailed criteria to be addressed for each technical review and audit contained in Clause 5. Clause 7 provides, for each technical review and audit contained in Clause 5 of this standard, detailed, bestpractice guidance for applying the detailed criteria of the corresponding portion of Clause 6 of this standard to various kinds of defense programs. Annex A, Annex B, Annex C, and Annex D contain examples of other technical reviews that DoD acquisition programs may find useful, based on the complexity, nature, and domain of the systems that are being developed or acquired by those programs.