Attachment_006_SEMA_Appendix_B_PWS

W58RGZ-15-R-0045 APPENDIX B to SEMA PWS

APPENDIX B – DEFINITIONS

A-Kit: The assemblage of components, fixed mechanisms, mounts, cowlings, hardware and software (including platform control software), necessary for the host aircraft to accept and operate unique mission systems such as CNS, ASE, MEP, and PED. The A-Kit is a permanent part of the host system.

Administrative Contracting Officer (ACO): Contracting officer whose primary duties involve contract administration. The Government employee responsible for the overall administration of the contract is the ACO.

Administrative Delay Time (ADT): That portion of downtime during which maintenance is delayed for reasons of an administrative nature: personnel assignment priority, labor strike, organizational constraint, and so on. ADT does not include active maintenance time but often constitutes a significant element of total maintenance downtime (MDT).

Aircraft-on-Ground (AOG): Term used to indicate an aircraft is Not Mission Capable (NMC) when aircraft is grounded for maintenance or non-available spare parts.

Aircraft Weight Classes: The FW PO has adopted the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration, Air Traffic Organization Policy definition for aircraft weight classes as follows:

• Heavy - Aircraft capable of takeoff weights of 300,000 pounds or more whether or not they are operating at this weight during a particular phase of flight

• Large - Aircraft of more than 41,000 pounds, maximum certificated takeoff weight, up to but not including 300,000 pounds.

• Small - Aircraft of 41,000 pounds or less maximum certificated takeoff weight.

ANSI/GEIA-STD-0009 - Reliability Program Standard for Systems Design, Development and Manufacturing: ANSI/GEIA-STD-0009 was released in 2008 detailing a scientific approach to reliability design, assessment and verification, coupled with integrated management and systems engineering. The ANSI/GEIA-STD-0009 standard aligns best practices of reliability management, design and testing with reliability methods that provide the most value and the least risk in terms of achieving reliable and sustainable products. ANSI/GEIA-STD-0009 consists of four objectives: 1) Understand Customer/User Requirements, 2) Design and Redesign for Reliability, 3) Produce Reliable Systems/Products and 4) Monitor and Assess User Reliability.

ANSI/GEIA-STD-0009 provided the “what to do” to assure the development of reliable systems/products, successfully demonstrate them during test and evaluation, and sustain them throughout the system/product life cycle.

Appliances: Any instrument, mechanism, equipment, part, apparatus, appurtenance, or accessory, including communications equipment, that is used or intended to be used in operating or controlling an aircraft in flight, is installed in or attached to the aircraft, and is not part of an airframe, engine, or propeller.

As-Delivered Configuration: The defined configuration at time of Government acceptance.

B-Kit: A mission equipment subsystem, end item, component, or common software that is integrated into the host platform via an A-Kit.

Beddown Base: The HQ DA approved home base for the assigned units for Army TA systems.

Beyond Economical Repair (BER): Term used to describe a hardware device that is not economically repairable and should be replaced.

Catastrophic Failure: A sudden and total failure from which recovery is impossible.

Catastrophic failures often lead to cascading systems failure.

Class I ECP: Class I changes are defined as those that affect the performance, survivability, weight & balance, moment of inertia, interface characteristics, electromagnetic characteristics, or other technical requirements in the specifications and drawings. Class I ECPs also include those changes that affect GFE, safety, compatibility, retrofit, operation and maintenance manuals, interchangeability, substitutability, replace ability, source control specifications and drawings, guarantees or warranties, deliveries, or schedules.

Class II ECP: An ECP that does not meet the definition of a Class I. Generally changes are made to correct typographical errors, addition of information for clarification, changes to title block information or distribution legends.

Contractor Acquired Property (CAP): Property in the possession of, or directly acquired by, the contractor in performance of a contract.

Critical Design Review (CDR): A multi-disciplined technical review to ensure that a system can proceed into fabrication, demonstration, and test, and can meet stated performance requirements within cost, schedule, risk, and other system constraints.

Generally this review assesses the system’s final design as captured in product specifications for each Configuration Item (CI) in the system’s product baseline, and ensures that each CI in the product baseline has been captured in the detailed design documentation.

Commercial Derivative Aircraft (CDA): A CDA is a fixed-wing aircraft procured as a commercial Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Type Certificated off-the-shelf developmental or non-developmental item that has its serial number listed on an FAA Type Certificate Data Sheet and subsequently modified to meet military mission requirements.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascading_failure

Configuration Status Accounting (CSA): Configuration Status Accounting system tracks changes to existing technical data for each aircraft.

Contingency Operations: Per 10 USC 101 (a) (13) and FAR 2.101, “Contingency operation” means a military operation that (A) is designated by the Secretary of Defense as an operation in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions, operations, or hostilities against an enemy of the United States or against an opposing military force; or (B) results in the call or order to, or retention on, active duty of members of the uniformed services under section 688, 12301 (a), 12302, 12304, 12304a, 12305, or 12406 of this title, chapter 15 of this title, section 712 of title 14, or any other provision of law during a war or during a national emergency declared by the President or Congress.

Data: All management, scientific engineering and logistics information, reports, and documentation which are required.

Data Matrix Code (ECC200): A Data Matrix code is a two-dimensional matrix barcode consisting of black and white "cells" or modules arranged in either a square or rectangular pattern. The information to be encoded can be text or numeric data. Usual data size is from a few bytes up to 1556 bytes. The length of the encoded data depends on the number of cells in the matrix. Error correction codes are often used to increase reliability: even if one or more cells is damaged so it is unreadable, the message can still be read. A Data Matrix symbol can store up to 2,335 alphanumeric characters.

Data Matrix symbols are rectangular in shape and usually square and are composed of "cells": little squares that represent bits. Depending on the coding used, a "light" cell represents a 0 and a "dark" cell is a 1, or vice versa. Every Data Matrix is composed of two solid adjacent borders in an "L" shape (called the "finder pattern") and two other borders consisting of alternating dark and light "cells" or modules (called the "timing pattern"). Within these borders are rows and columns of cells encoding information.

The finder pattern is used to locate and orient the symbol while the timing pattern provides a count of the number of rows and columns in the symbol. As more data is encoded in the symbol, the number of cells (rows and columns) increases. Each code is unique. Symbol sizes vary from 10×10 to 144×144 in the new version ECC 200, and from 9×9 to 49×49 in the old version ECC 000 - 140.

ECC 200 is the newest version of Data Matrix and uses Reed-Solomon codes for error and erasure recovery. ECC 200 allows the routine reconstruction of the entire encoded data string when the symbol has sustained 30% damage, assuming the matrix can still be accurately located. Data Matrix has an error rate of less than 1 in 10 million characters scanned.

Symbols have an even number of rows and an even number of columns. Most of the symbols are square with sizes from 10×10 to 144×144. Some symbols however are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(mathematics) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_(geometry) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectangle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_codes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphanumeric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_(computing) http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=ECC_200&action=edit&redlink=1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed-Solomon rectangular with sizes from 8×18 to 16×48 (even values only). All symbols utilizing the ECC 200 error correction can be recognized by the upper right corner module being the same as the background color (binary 0).

Additional capabilities that differentiate ECC 200 symbols from the earlier standards include:

• Inverse reading symbols (light images on a dark background)

• Specification of the character set (via Extended Channel Interpretations)

• Rectangular symbols

• Structured append (linking of up to 16 symbols to encode larger amounts of data)

Defect: Any non-conformance of a characteristic with specified requirements.

Deployment: A deployment is an extended period during which the aircraft and crews are expected to perform multiple missions while operating from a forward operating area (FOA). All maintenance support usually performed at the BB is required to be performed at the FOA. Higher headquarters determines the duration and location of a deployment. The contractor shall continue to provide maintenance support for non-deployed aircraft at the BB.

Disassembly: Teardown of the item or parts sufficient to permit the type and amount of inspection and work required.

Elective Improvement: A Government directed effort such as cockpit upgrade/modification, installation of new communications suite, repainting aircraft to a new color scheme

Engine Overhaul: Engine overhaul is the process of engine disassembly “IAW the OEM overhaul” manual to inspect all of the parts of the basic engine and installed accessory components. Overhaul includes disassembly, cleaning, inspection, repair, “replacement sufficient to operate until the next scheduled overhaul” as required, reassembly and successful test-cell run to ensure engine integrity and that the engine is producing specification-level performance.

Failure Analysis and Corrective Action Report (FACAR): Provides immediate reporting of failure and subsequent details, failure analysis results, and corrective action recommendation.

Failure Reporting, Analysis, and Corrective Action System (FRACAS): A system, sometimes carried out using software, that provides a process for reporting, classifying, and analyzing failures; and planning corrective actions in response to those failures. It is typically used in an industrial environment to collect data, record and analyze system failures. A FRACAS system may attempt to manage multiple failure reports that are recorded by numerous individuals in different ways. FRACAS produces a history of failure and corrective actions. The method calls for a systematic failure data collection, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_Channel_Interpretations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failure http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report management, analysis, and corrective action implementation. A FRACAS is used to record all failures and problems related to a product or process and their associated root causes and failure analyses in order to assist in identifying and implementing corrective actions.

Ferry Flight: A flight for the purpose of: (a) returning an aircraft to base; (b) delivering an aircraft from one location to another; and (c) moving an aircraft to and from a maintenance base. Ferry flights, under certain conditions, may be conducted under terms of a special flight permit.

Field Maintenance: Field maintenance is the first operation of the Army maintenance system. Field maintenance is characterized by the performance of maintenance tasks “on system” in a tactical environment using trained personnel, tools, and TMDE. Field maintenance is typically operator/crew maintenance and repair and return to user maintenance operations.

Flextime: A variable work schedule. Flextime is a method used to establish working hours wherein limited manpower may be spread to cover more hours in the 168-hour week than would be available using five 8-hour shifts. It consists of: “Core” (scheduled) hours wherein manpower is scheduled to be on the job; and “On Call” hours wherein manpower responds to both unscheduled requirements and scheduled requirements that happen to be scheduled outside of “core” hours.

Flight Payload: (Flight) Payload is any item which is being transported and is directly related to the purpose of the flight as opposed to items that are necessary for the flight operation. Payload can include, but is not limited to, passengers, cargo, passenger baggage, ammo, internal and external stores, and fuel which are to be delivered to another aircraft or site. Payload may or may not be expended in flight.

Fully Mission Capable (FMC): The condition status that indicates the aircraft is capable of safe flight and can perform all the prescribed missions required IAW AR 700-

Functional Check Flight (FCF): Functional check flight made in order to certify systems’ integrity and verify that aircraft system performances meet Government-approved criteria.

Government Furnished Property (GFP): Property in the possession of, or directly acquired by, the Government and subsequently furnished to the contractor for performance of a contract. Government furnished property includes, but is not limited to, spares and property furnished for repairs, maintenance, overhaul, or modification.

Government furnished property also includes contractor acquired property if the contractor acquired property is a deliverable under a cost contract when accepted by the Government for continued use under the contract.

Ground Support Equipment (GSE): Aviation Ground Support Equipment includes a variety of items needed to support Army aircraft before and after flight. GSE includes all equipment and special tools required to maintain aircraft and associated equipment.

Support equipment (whose complexity in some instances approaches the aircraft's) is needed to properly maintain and operate aircraft.

Heavy Aircraft: Aircraft of 255,000 pounds or more (FAA website)

Heavy Maintenance: The inspection, modification, integration, refurbishment, and repair of the aircraft airframe or its components, performed at either specified time intervals or “on condition”, as determined by the FW PO. An example could be the inspection and repair of the aircraft airframe, performed at specified time intervals. These intervals are based upon the guidelines of the aircraft manufacturer, the National Aviation Authority (NAA), the FAA, and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) and further refined by the airline or operator. Scheduled inspections are typically based on a fixed number of flight hours. These are four levels of inspection for commercial aircraft, usually termed “A,” “B,” “C,” and “D” checks. A and B checks are normally considered part of line maintenance. C and D checks are classified as heavy maintenance. At the present time, there are a variety of approaches to heavy maintenance.

Heavy Maintenance Level Repair: Major aircraft or subsystem repair that is beyond the skill level and/or tooling/fixtures/equipment level of on-site personnel/locations due to the extent of disassembly required to accomplish the repair.

Hidden Damage: Any secondary damage that could result from an accident such as fire or heat damage. Inspection of article involved in accident for hidden damage before maintenance is performed: (a) includes inspections of adjacent areas; and (b) may not be required in all cases

Hostile Operations: Hostile operations are those actions, including contingency planning, which would be required to support site operations during emergency and wartime conditions

Host Platform: An aviation platform with a developed A-Kit, that is required to implement a capability thru its associated B-Kit.

Inspect or Check: An examination of an item to determine identity, condition, and proper installation.

Information Assurance (IA): Information operations that protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This includes providing for restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.

Integrated Product Team (IPT): Team composed of representatives from appropriate functional disciplines working together to build successful programs, identify and resolve issues, and make sound and timely recommendations to facilitate decision making.

There are three types of IPTs: Overarching IPTs (OIPTs) that focus on strategic guidance, program assessment, and issue resolution; Working-level IPTs (WIPTs) that identify and resolve program issues, determine program status, and seek opportunities for acquisition reform; and Program-level IPTs (PIPTs) that focus on program execution and may include representatives from both Government and (after contract award) industry.

Integration: Actions taken within a Program Office (PO) using the Integrated Product and Process Development (IPPD) process to ensure the various functional disciplines of systems acquisition management are appropriately considered during the design, development and production of a defense system.

Interface Management: Relative to the performance of Elective Improvements, interface management is a systematic methodology enlisted when working with multiple contractors, subcontractors, and clients. Implementing an interface management process on a project streamlines communication, identifies critical interfaces, and monitors ongoing work progress while mitigating risks. Interfaces are connection points between parties or elements. Within the context of Interface Management, all entities are working towards a common, agreed-upon goal, which is completion of the Project.

As more individuals and contractors work together, there is an increasing chance for miscommunication, lack of communication, or the inability to stay within the project’s scope, budget and schedule.

Inventory Accuracy: Inventory accuracy is the percent of agreement between on hand quantity (perpetual) inventory records and actual assets on hand.

Issue Effectiveness Rate: The percentage of customer requests that were filled by items in the inventory. This specific measurement will only be utilized for contractors that have Government Furnished Property in the form of readiness Spares Package

IAW AFMAN 23-110.

Large Aircraft: Aircraft of more than 41,000 pounds up to 255,000 pounds (FAA website)

Logistically Non-Supportable Condition: A situation where parts can no longer be obtained or where the cost of parts and repair or overhaul of the old component shall exceed the cost of an equivalent or improved, recently produced and qualified component.

Life Cycle Services: All product servicing, support, and oversight activities associated with the development, production, fielding, sustainment, and disposal of the SEMA across its life cycle.

Maintenance: All actions necessary for retaining an item in or restoring it to a specified condition.

Major Repair: A repair that, if improperly done, might appreciably affect weight, balance, structural strength, performance, power plant operation, flight characteristics, or other qualities affecting airworthiness; or that is not done according to accepted practices or cannot be done by elementary operations.

Mandatory Replacement of Parts & Materials: Parts that are always (100% of the time) replaced regardless of their condition.

MC: For the purposes of calculating FW MC rate, MC is the MC rate from AR 700-138.

MC is the percentage of time that a piece of equipment or system is fully mission capable plus partial mission capable for that given period.

Medical Certificate: Acceptable evidence of physical fitness on a form prescribed by the administrator.

Meta-Data: A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.

Minor Fault/Discrepancy: A minor fault/discrepancy is defined as a piece of equipment that has a deficiency or shortcoming discrepancy. This fault/discrepancy entered into the aircraft log book which does not fall within the parameters of a grounding condition red (X) or a limiting condition (Circle red X) or requiring inspection (Dash). Minor discrepancies include, but are not limited to, cosmetic and cleanliness issues caused by wear and tear from normal usage of the aircraft.

Mission: A pre-planned sequence of one or more sorties flown by one aircraft that has been assigned a specific mission number.

Mission Equipment Package (MEP): The aircraft modifications, mission components (A&B-Kits), and technical bulletins required for the SEMA to conduct its designated ISR mission.

Mission Support: The effort required to accomplish flight and mission planning operations through tactical control (TACON) staff elements; pre- and post-mission operations; pre-flight operations (planning and checks); in-flight operations; post-flight operations (debrief and checks); ground and flight operations IAW AR 95-20; and mission tasking. This is keyed to the pilot and operators of the aircraft and not the CLS that is already covered in the PWS.

Modification: Changes in form/fit or function of a system, equipment or airframe.

Non-Reporting Time (NRT): The condition of an aircraft which is not in a reporting status. NRT is the time required to: modify the aircraft; perform crash damage repairs;

install or remove ferry tanks; perform special inspections directed by the OSGR. Non reporting time (NRT) shall be deducted from the total hours in the month when computing Mission Capable rates.

Examples of NRT: (a) time waiting for Functional Check Flight (FCF), after the first 24 hours have elapsed since contractor notified the Government of aircraft ready for FCF;

(b) time awaiting off-site station maintenance; (c) time aircraft is undergoing ACI or over and above repairs; (d) time aircraft is undergoing stand-alone strip and paint; (e) aircraft involved in service-directed efforts; (f) time awaiting engine delivery in cases of unanticipated engine replacement (contractual requirement for engine delivery is 3 days CONUS, 6 days OCONUS); (g) actions or situations substantiated and agreed to by the OSGR or Program Manager as beyond the control of the contractor; (h) one-time special inspections directed by the Government; and (i) the time in which parts or required maintenance personnel are in the Government transportation system, when directed by the Government.

Not mission capable (NMC): A materiel condition indicating that equipment cannot perform any one of its combat missions. The NMC is divided into not mission capable maintenance or not mission capable supply (NMCS).

Not Mission Capable Maintenance (NMCM): Equipment that cannot perform its combat mission because of maintenance work underway or needed.

Not Mission Capable Supply (NMCS): Equipment that cannot perform its combat mission because of maintenance work stoppage due to supply backorders.

On-Condition Replacement Parts & Material: Those parts and material replaced based upon their condition (i.e. broken, worn, out of tolerance limits, configuration change, etc.)

Organic: Assigned to and forming an essential part of a military organization as listed in its table of organization for the Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, and are assigned to the operating forces for the Navy. In this case, it refers to the Army’s ability to perform a level of maintenance within the Army structure.

Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM): The manufacturer or current type certificate holder of the applicable system or component that can provide the required technical engineering data to support the establishing or retaining FAA certification.

Partially Mission Capable (PMC): PMC status is defined as when an aircraft can perform one or more, but not all of the missions prescribed by HQDA for that MDS aircraft or does not meet the system/subsystem operational requirements for an FMC status. PMC time is recorded with the appropriate code(s) as Partially Mission Capable Supply (PMCS) and/or Partially Mission Capable Maintenance (PMCM).

Processing, Exploitation and Dissemination (PED) A PED is defined as those aircraft modifications, mission components (A&B-Kits) required for the SEMA to conduct its designated ISR data dissemination mission.

Perfect Order Fulfillment (POF): POF measures the percentage of orders that meet performance on time, with accurate documentation, correct/complete (correct quantity/no missing components) condition and damage free. Note POF is not applicable for MILSTRIP requisitions associated with ASE.

Preliminary Design Review (PDR): A review conducted on each Configuration Item (CI) to evaluate the progress, technical adequacy, proposed software architectures and risk resolution of the selected design approach; to determine its compatibility with performance and engineering requirements of the development specification; and to establish the existence and compatibility of the physical and functional interfaces among the item and other items of equipment, facilities, computer programs, and personnel.

Preventive Maintenance: All actions performed in an attempt to retain an item in a specified condition by providing systematic inspection, detection, and prevention of incipient failures.

Primary Mission: Shall include day or night flight under instrument flight rule (IFR) conditions, into high density air traffic control zones and through known icing weather and conditions to altitudes requiring cabin pressurization.

Primary Mission Equipment (PME): Equipment (A&B-Kits) required for accomplishment of an aircraft’s assigned mission but not necessary for the aircraft to achieve and sustain flight.

Procuring Contracting Officer (PCO): The individual authorized to enter into contract for supplies and services on behalf of the Government

Program Management Office (PMO): General term used throughout this PWS to refer to the Government Program office.

Public Use Aircraft): General term to describe aircraft owned or operated by the Armed Forces and the aircraft is operated in the performance of a governmental function.

Quality Control Plan (QCP): The contractor’s QCP is the means by which he assures himself that his work complies with the requirement of the contract. The finalized QCP will be accepted by the Government at the time of contract award.

Reporting Period: The timeframe between the 16th day of one month to the 15th day of the following month.

Registrar Audit: The most widely recognized standard is ISO 9001, a basic quality management system that can be used in industries of any size, anywhere in the world.

Registration to ISO 9001 (or other quality/management standards) provides objective proof that a business has implemented an effective quality management system, and that it satisfies all of the requirements of the applicable standard. An external, impartial expert called a registrar or CB (Certification Body) conducts an on-site audit to determine whether or not a company is in conformance to the standard. If they are found to be in conformance, they will be issued a certificate showing their address, scope of operations and the seals of the accreditation bodies that give the registrar its legitimacy.

Reliability Improvement Program (RIP): Reliability improvement programs are hardware redesign efforts that are usually applied to systems that have already been developed, produced, and deployed to raise the inherent reliability of a subsystem or component.

Repair: Restoration or replacement of parts and/or units to maintain efficient operating conditions.

Repair Engineering Order (REO): Issued for accomplishment of structural repairs.

Repairable Item: Any item that can be restored to perform all of its required functions by corrective maintenance.

Reporting Time (RT): The total time in which an aircraft is either mission capable (MC) or not mission capable (NMC).

Request for Deviation (RFD): A deviation is a specific written authorization to depart from a particular requirement(s) of an item’s current approved configuration documentation for a specific number of units or a specified period of time. It differs from an engineering change since a deviation does not effect a change to a configuration document. Deviations are requested by contractors prior to manufacture, during manufacture, or after an item has been submitted for Government inspection and acceptance. To be tendered for delivery or to be installed in an item to be tendered for delivery, the deviant item must be suitable for use.

Return to Service Flight: A flight conducted under special terms outlined in an OEM maintenance manual or by Government direction for the purpose of ensuring that a repair, adjustment, or maintenance action returns an aircraft to its previous or unaltered condition.

Small Aircraft: Aircraft of 12,500 pounds or less (FAA website)

Service Action (SA): Service actions consist of manufacturer service bulletins (SB), information letters and service instructions (SI), as well as FAA airworthiness directives (AD), service-applicable USN C-12 maintenance engineering directives (MED) or USAF C-12 maintenance action directives (MAD), technical directives (TD), and mandatory or optional manufacturer service bulletins (optional SBs require service approval for incorporation).

Service Difficulty Report (SDR) Aeronautical Equipment: Consists of maintenance incidents collected by the FAA for the purpose of tracking repair problems with private, commercial and military aircraft and aircraft components. They are largely self-reported by the aircraft owners. The data is reported by tail number and aircraft serial number, so it is possible to trace the maintenance history of a particular airplane with this database.

Serviceable: Capable of meeting the requirement and performing the function for which designed or modified. Meets all test requirements established by the work specification

Sites (same as Beddown Base): All based-locations, particularly those where scheduled maintenance and inspections occur. Sites include those where mission operations originate.

Statement of Airworthiness Qualification (SAQ): A final document establishing full qualification status and airworthiness release that is issued in conjunction with the AQSR normally completing an airworthiness qualification program. The SAQ contains a description of the configuration of the air vehicle, operating instructions and procedures, limitations and restrictions, and requirements for sustaining airworthiness. An SAQ may be issued temporarily as an interim SAW (ISAQ).

Support Equipment (SE): All ancillary and associated equipment (mobile or fixed) required to separate and support a materiel system. This includes equipment such as trucks, air conditioners, generators, ground handling and maintenance equipment, tools metrology, calibration and communications equipment, test equipment, and automatic test equipment with diagnostic software for both on and off equipment maintenance.

Surge: The act of expanding an existing maintenance repair capability to meet increased requirements by adjusting shifts; adding skilled personnel, equipment, spares, and repair parts to increase the flow of repaired materiel to the using activity; or for serviceable storage.

System Verification Review (SVR): The SVR is a technical review focused on the final product that meets all functional requirements. Typically SVRs are conducted at the system level and can be conducted concurrently with the FCA.

System: A combination of equipment end items, assemblies, major components, components, modules, and parts assembled as a single functional unit to perform a task or mission.

Technical Directives (TD): Special instructions and efforts (service, repairs, modifications and inspection) such as those required by the Government, including maintenance engineering directives (MED), maintenance airworthiness directives (MAD), instructions and bulletins (i.e.: safety-of-flight and grounding bulletins), modifications, and various changes (e.g.: interim, record, rapid action maintenance engineering changes). Technical directives include FAA airworthiness directives (AD), manufacturer service bulletins (SB) and service instructions (SI). There are both mandatory and optional technical directives (TD).

Technical Interchange Meeting (TIM): Meetings and forums where the program IPT members can interact and hold technical discussions and review supporting documentation, seek answers to technical questions, identify any potential issues, and prioritize follow-on topics.

Special Electronic Mission Aircraft (SEMA): US Army aerial platforms that perform intelligence, reconnaissance and surveillance missions.

Validation: The assurance that a product, service, or system meets the needs of the customer and other identified stakeholders. It often involves acceptance and suitability with external customers.

Verification: The evaluation of whether or not a product, service, or system complies with a regulation, requirement, specification, or imposed condition. It is often an internal process.