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File: Engineering Go/No-Go Checklist (for the 5000 Framework)Last updated: 24 September 2018

Engineering Go/No-Go Checklist
Project Name: / Date Initiated:
Release ID: / Date Completed:
Release Highlights & Risk Level:
NOTE: Products on this checklist may be tailored. Prior to completing this checklist and for additional information, refer to the BES Process Directory (BPD) Tailoring Worksheet (TWS) for the program.
Materiel Solution Analysis Phase
Lead Engineer: / Start: / End:
Product / Reviewed / Comments
1.Initial Schedule / YesNoN/A
2.Information Technology Investment Portfolio System (ITIPS) Initiatives and Accounts / YesNoN/A
3.System Metric and Reporting Tool (SMART) Initiatives and Accounts / YesNoN/A
4.BES Operational Baseline Database (BOB DB)
Note: Contact your Program Manager (PM) to request access / YesNoN/A
5.Stakeholder List / YesNoN/A
6.Intergroup Coordination Checklist / YesNoN/A
7.Project-Specific Training Plan and Assign BES Process Directory (BPD) Roles / YesNoN/A
8.Project Configuration Management Library / YesNoN/A
9.Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) / YesNoN/A
10.Project Estimates / YesNoN/A
11.Baseline Schedule for Materiel Solution Analysis / YesNoN/A
12.Architecture Views / YesNoN/A
13.Draft Information Support Plan (ISP) / YesNoN/A
14.Program Protection Plan (PPP) / YesNoN/A
15.Defense Business System Certification and Approval (if required) / YesNoN/A
16.Initial Technical Review (ITR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
17.Refined Initial Concept / YesNoN/A
18.Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) / YesNoN/A
19.Alternative System Review (ASR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
20.Economic Analysis (Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS) only) / YesNoN/A
21.Initial Integrated Test Design (ITTD) Artifacts / YesNoN/A
Integrated Test Team (ITT) Charter / YesNoN/A
Test and Evaluation Strategy (TES) / YesNoN/A
22.Systems Engineering Plan / YesNoN/A
23.Responses to Security Controls in Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) / YesNoN/A
24.Technology Development Strategy (TDS) / YesNoN/A
25.BPD Tailoring Worksheet (TWS) for Technology Development Phase / YesNoN/A
26.Draft Schedule for Technology Development Phase / YesNoN/A
27.WBS for Technology Development Phase / YesNoN/A
28.Project Estimates for Technology Development Phase / YesNoN/A
29.Acquisition Strategy Plan / YesNoN/A
30.Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) / YesNoN/A
31.Title 40/Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) Compliance and Component Chief Information Officer (CIO) Confirmation (for all Information Technology (IT)) / YesNoN/A
32.Title 40/CCA Department of Defense (DoD) CIO Confirmation (for Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) and MAIS) / YesNoN/A
33.Life Cycle Management Plan (LCMP) / YesNoN/A
34.Source Selection Plan / YesNoN/A
35.Request for Proposal (RFP) / YesNoN/A
36.Draft Capability Development Document (CDD) / YesNoN/A
Technology Development Phase
Lead Engineer: / Start: / End:
Product / Reviewed / Comments
1.Signed Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) to proceed to the Technology Development Phase / YesNoN/A
2.Finalized Schedule for the Technology Development Phase / YesNoN/A
3.Updated Stakeholder List / YesNoN/A
4.Updated Intergroup Coordination Checklist / YesNoN/A
5.Updated Project-Specific Training Plan and BES Process Directory (BPD) Roles Assigned / YesNoN/A
6.Draft Configuration Management Plan (CMP) / YesNoN/A
7.Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
8.Managed Requirements / YesNoN/A
9.Interface Control Working Group (ICWG) Charter / YesNoN/A
10.Draft Interface Requirements Agreements (IRAs) / YesNoN/A
11.Updated Architecture Views / YesNoN/A
12.Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) / YesNoN/A
13.Finalized Demonstration Evaluation Criteria / YesNoN/A
14.Demonstrated Technology Development Products / YesNoN/A
15.Competitive Prototypes / YesNoN/A
16.Assessments for Each Demonstrated Product / YesNoN/A
17.Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability (RAM) Strategy / YesNoN/A
18.System Requirements Review (SRR) / YesNoN/A
19.Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) (if required by the MDA) / YesNoN/A
20.Functional Baseline (FBL) / YesNoN/A
21.Review/Update BES Operational Baseline Database (BOB DB) Data / YesNoN/A
22.Initial Integrated Test Design (IITD) Artifacts / YesNoN/A
Updated Integrated Test Team (ITT) Charter / YesNoN/A
Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) / YesNoN/A
Integrated Test Plan (ITP) / YesNoN/A
23.Programmatic Environment, Safety and Occupational Health Evaluation (PESHE) / YesNoN/A
24.National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Compliance Schedule / YesNoN/A
25.Updated Information Support Plan (ISP) / YesNoN/A
26.Updated Program Protection Plan (PPP) / YesNoN/A
27.Updated Systems Engineering Plan / YesNoN/A
28.Responses to Information Assurance (IA) Controls in Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) / YesNoN/A
29.Finalized Capability Development Document (CDD) / YesNoN/A
30.General Requirements Specification (GRS) / YesNoN/A
31.Concept of Operations (ConOps) / YesNoN/A
32.Software Requirements Specification (SRS) / YesNoN/A
33.System Subsystem Specification (SSS) / YesNoN/A
34.Refined FBL / YesNoN/A
35.Preliminary System Design / YesNoN/A
36.Preliminary Design Document (DD) / YesNoN/A
37.Preliminary Database Specification (DS) / YesNoN/A
38.Updated Systems Engineering Plan / YesNoN/A
39.Software Development Plan (SDP) / YesNoN/A
40.Updated Architecture Views / YesNoN/A
41.Updated ISP / YesNoN/A
42.IITD Artifacts / YesNoN/A
Updated ITT Charter / YesNoN/A
Updated ITP / YesNoN/A
Updated TEMP / YesNoN/A
Draft Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Scripts / YesNoN/A
Draft Integrated Test Description (ITD) / YesNoN/A
43.Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
44.Establish Allocated Baseline (ABL) / YesNoN/A
45.Updated Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) (Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS)) / YesNoN/A
46.Updated Economic Analysis (EA) (MAIS only) / YesNoN/A
47.Cost Analysis Requirements Description (CARD) (designated programs) / YesNoN/A
48.Program Office Estimate (POE) / YesNoN/A
49.Component Cost Assessment (CCA) / YesNoN/A
50.Independent Cost Estimate (ICE) / YesNoN/A
51.Analysis and Selection of Contracting Alternatives / YesNoN/A
52.Acquisition Strategy Plan / YesNoN/A
53.Updated Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) / YesNoN/A
54.Title 40/Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) Compliance and Component Chief Information Officer (CIO) Confirmation (for all Information Technology (IT)) / YesNoN/A
55.Title 40/CCA DoD CIO Confirmation (for Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) and MAIS) / YesNoN/A
56.Updated Defense Business System Certification and Approval (if required) / YesNoN/A
57.Updated Life Cycle Management Plan (LCMP) / YesNoN/A
58.Source Selection Plan / YesNoN/A
59.Draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD) Phase / YesNoN/A
60.Draft Tailoring Worksheet (TWS) for the EMD Phase / YesNoN/A
61.Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) for the EMD Phase / YesNoN/A
62.Project Estimates for the EMD Phase / YesNoN/A
63.Draft Schedule for the EMD Phase / YesNoN/A
64.Technical Working Plan (TWP) / YesNoN/A
Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase – Part I
(before Post-Critical Design Review Assessment (Post-CDR A))
Lead Engineer: / Start: / End:
Product / Reviewed / Comments
1.Stakeholder List / YesNoN/A
2.Integrated Baseline Review (IBR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
3.Final Configuration Management Plan (CMP) / YesNoN/A
4.Intergroup Coordination Checklist / YesNoN/A
5.Initial Integrated Test Design (IITD) Artifacts / YesNoN/A
Updated Integrated Test Team (ITT) Charter / YesNoN/A
Updated Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) / YesNoN/A
Updated Integrated Test Plan (ITP) / YesNoN/A
Draft Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Scripts / YesNoN/A
Draft Integrated Test Description (ITD) / YesNoN/A
6.Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) / YesNoN/A
7.Refined Schedule and Cost / YesNoN/A
8.Updated Project-Specific Training Plan / YesNoN/A
9.Updated Risks / YesNoN/A
10.Updated Systems Engineering Plan / YesNoN/A
11.Configuration Control Directive (CCD) / YesNoN/A
12.Functional Review Board (FRB) and minutes / YesNoN/A
13.Software Development Plan (SDP) / YesNoN/A
14.General Requirements Specification (GRS) / YesNoN/A
15.Updated Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) / YesNoN/A
16.Updated Responses to Security Controls in Enterprise Mission Assurance Support Service (eMASS) / YesNoN/A
17.System Requirements Review (SRR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
18.Updated GRS / YesNoN/A
19.System Functional Review (SFR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
20.Refined Functional Baseline (FBL) / YesNoN/A
21.Updated Risks / YesNoN/A
22.Updated Cost Analysis Requirement Description (CARD) / YesNoN/A
23.Updated Life Cycle Sustainment Plan (LCSP) / YesNoN/A
24.Updated Interface Requirements Agreement (IRA) / YesNoN/A
25.Updated GRS / YesNoN/A
26.Updated RTM / YesNoN/A
27.Preliminary Database Specification (DS) / YesNoN/A
28.PreliminaryDesign Document (DD) / YesNoN/A
29.Updated Architecture Views / YesNoN/A
30.Updated Information Support Plan (ISP) / YesNoN/A
31.Preliminary Design Review(PDR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
32.Post-Preliminary Design Review Assessment (Post-PDR A) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
33.Allocated Baseline (ABL) / YesNoN/A
34.Review/Update BES Operational Baseline Database (BOB DB) Data / YesNoN/A
35.Draft Implementation Plan (IP) / YesNoN/A
36.Release Request Letter / YesNoN/A
37.Final IRA / YesNoN/A
38.Updated GRS / YesNoN/A
39.Updated RTM / YesNoN/A
40.Final DS / YesNoN/A
41.Final DD / YesNoN/A
42.IITD Artifacts / YesNoN/A
Updated ITT Charter / YesNoN/A
Updated TEMP / YesNoN/A
Updated ITP / YesNoN/A
Updated Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Scripts / YesNoN/A
Updated ITD / YesNoN/A
43.Critical Design Review (CDR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
44.Updated Risks / YesNoN/A
45.Updated CARD / YesNoN/A
46.Refined Schedule and Cost / YesNoN/A
47.Updated LCSP / YesNoN/A
48.Technology Readiness Assessment (TRA) (if required by the Milestone Decision Authority (MDA)) / YesNoN/A
49.Final Responses to RMF Controls in eMASS / YesNoN/A
50.Final Architecture Views / YesNoN/A
51.Final ISP / YesNoN/A
52.Updated Program Protection Plan (PPP) / YesNoN/A
Engineering and Manufacturing Development Phase – Part II
(before Milestone C)
Lead Engineer: / Start: / End:
Product / Reviewed / Comments
1.Acquisition Decision Memorandum (ADM) for the Post-Critical Design Review Assessment (Post-CDR A) / YesNoN/A
2.Final Implementation Plan (IP) / YesNoN/A
3.User Manual (UM) or on line help / YesNoN/A
4.Operator Manual (OM) / YesNoN/A
5.Product Database / YesNoN/A
6.Product Components / YesNoN/A
7.Systems Infrastructure / YesNoN/A
8.Initial Integrated Test Design (IITD) Artifacts / YesNoN/A
Final Integrated Test Team (ITT) Charter / YesNoN/A
Final Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) / YesNoN/A
Final Integrated Test Plan (ITP) / YesNoN/A
Final Test Scenarios, Test Cases, and Test Scripts / YesNoN/A
Final Integrated Test Description (ITD) / YesNoN/A
9.Integrated Test Report (ITR) for Integrated Developmental Test and Evaluation (IDT&E) (Component Validation and Integration (CV&I) portion only) / YesNoN/A
10.Product Baseline (PBL) / YesNoN/A
11.Final Release Package / YesNoN/A
12.Final General Requirements Specification (GRS) / YesNoN/A
13.Final Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) / YesNoN/A
14.Test Readiness Review I (TRR I) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
15.Lessons Learned / YesNoN/A
16.ITR for IDT&E (includes both CV&I and Qualification Test and Evaluation (QT&E)) / YesNoN/A
17.Functional Configuration Audit (FCA) Report / YesNoN/A
18.Operational Test Readiness Review (OTRR) and Minutes / YesNoN/A
19.Updated Cost Analysis Requirement Description (CARD) / YesNoN/A
20.Program Office Estimate (POE) / YesNoN/A
21.Component Cost Assessment (CCA) / YesNoN/A
22.Independent Cost Estimate (ICE) / YesNoN/A
23.Title 40/Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) Compliance and Component Chief Information Officer (CIO) Confirmation (for all Information Technology (IT)) / YesNoN/A
24.Title 40/Clinger-Cohen Act (CCA) Department of Defense (DoD) CIO Confirmation (for Major Defense Acquisition Programs (MDAPs) and Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS)) / YesNoN/A
25.Updated Programmatic Environment, Safety and Occupational Health Evaluation (PESHE) / YesNoN/A
26.Updated National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Compliance Schedule (as required) / YesNoN/A
27.Updated Defense Business System Certification and approval (if required) / YesNoN/A
Production and Deployment Phase
Lead Engineer: / Start: / End:
Product / Reviewed / Comments
1.Test Report for Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&E) (Conducted by the Operational Test Organization (OTO) as Documented in the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP) or Life Cycle Management Plan (LCMP)) / YesNoN/A
2.Physical Configuration Audit (PCA) Report / YesNoN/A
3.Review/Update BES Operational Baseline Database (BOB DB) Data / YesNoN/A
4.Economic Analysis (Major Automated Information Systems (MAIS) only) / YesNoN/A
5.Acquisition Strategy Plan / YesNoN/A
6.Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) (MAIS only) / YesNoN/A
7.Draft Request for Information (RFI) (optional) for the Operations & Support Phase / YesNoN/A
8.Source Selection Plan / YesNoN/A
9.Draft Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Operations & Support Phase / YesNoN/A
10.Quick Pass and Acquisition Strategy Panel Review and Minutes / YesNoN/A
11.Final RFP for the Operations & Support Phase / YesNoN/A

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