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Article Innovation, Risk Management, Complexity, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing 1 November 2018

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3D Printing Takes to the Skies

By Fister Gale, Sarah The U.S. space shuttle had over 2.5 million parts—an incredible feat of engineering, but also a staggering number of pieces that could break. Recently, aerospace companies have been embracing 3D…

Conference Paper Complexity, Requirements Management, Risk Management, Aerospace & Defense 10 October 2015

Rapid development of the U. S. military's transport isolation system

By Gadeken, Owen C. When U.S. troops were deployed to support the United Nations during the Ebola epidemic in West Africa in 2014, the U.S. Department of Defense needed to develop an air transportable multi-patient…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Program Management, Change Management, Aerospace & Defense 29 October 2013

MRAP

By Hansen, David K. | Dean, Dennis R. | Gibson, David L. | Flinder, Sharon W. The U.S. Department of Defense Joint Mine Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) Vehicle Program (JMVP) Program Office (JPO MRAP) executed a project to rapidly develop, acquire, and field the MRAP family…

Conference Paper Complexity, Risk Management, Aerospace & Defense 13 October 2009

Simulation and visualization of performance across subsystems in complex aerospace projects

By Moser, Bryan | Grossmann, William | Murray, Patrick When implementing an aerospace project, project managers must integrate a complex assortment of activities. This paper examines a simulation and visualization tool that can help aerospace project…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Cost Management, Earned Value Management, Aerospace & Defense 19 October 2008

Integrating risk and earned value management

By Shepherd, Bill The United States Department of Defense (DoD) has spearheaded many major advances in modern project management. One of these involves the integration of risk management and earned value management…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Program Management, Aerospace & Defense 16 July 2008

Program risk management

By Patanakul, Peerasit Because researchers have not widely studied approaches to managing program risk, many program managers use project risk management methodologies to manage program risks. Today, however, more…

Article Risk Management, Scheduling, Aerospace & Defense February 2006

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Out of sight

If two or more organizations working jointly to develop an innovative, multiyear project--especially one relying on government funding--fail to define their co-effort's best practices, they…

Article Risk Management, Aerospace & Defense June 2003

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The big picture

By Hoffman, Edward J. NASA's structure integrates functions aimed directly at project management excellence.It's project management standards flow down through a policy docuemnt that sets up high-level guidelines to…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Aerospace & Defense, Construction 3 October 2002

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Quantifying disruption

By Cooper, Kenneth G. | Reichelt, Kimberly Sklar In large, complex projects, the only constant is change. Increasing scope, changing requirements and schedule movements are common, often pervasive. While these changes may be manageable…

Conference Paper Risk Management, Complexity, Construction, Aerospace & Defense 7 September 2000

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Risk management experience on Hyperion

By Conrow, Edmund H. | Carman, Stephen L. IntroductionThis paper briefly describes the application of risk management to the Hyperion project, a complex electro-optical instrument developed by TRW for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)…