Examples of Milestone B in a sentence
Milestone B also establishes the Acquisition Program Baseline against which the program’s performance will be assessed.
Milestone B approval, which permits a program to enter the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase, is generally considered a major milestone for a defense acquisition program, permitting the program to transition, in effect, from a research and development effort into a procurement program of record.
A January 6, 2017, Navy notification to Congress on theMilestone B approval for the Columbia-class program states the following:On 4 November 2016, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall chaired the Milestone B Defense Acquisition Board, and on 4 January, 2017 signed the acquisition decision memorandum approving COLUMBIA Class program’s Milestone B and designating the program as an Acquisition Category ID major defense acquisition program.
See also Megan Eckstein, “Columbia-class Submarine Program Passess Milestone B Decision, Can Begin Detail Design,” USNI News, January 4, 2017.
When this is the case, a combined Milestone B and C will be conducted.
Milestone B determines whether a formal acquisition program will be launched and marks the entry point into the EMD Phase.
Therefore, the results of the assessments and demonstrations of the technology and manufacturing processes in a relevant environment and the identification of manufacturing risks that are reflected as success criteria for the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) are important inputs to the Industrial Base Capabilities Considerations that are a required part of the AS at Milestone B.
The systems acquisition phase that begins after Milestone B encompasses all detailed design and manufacturing activities needed to deliver the requirements defined in the Capability Development Document (CDD) and later the Capability Production Document (CPD).
For Milestone B, the DoD Component-approved draft PPP will be provided to the DASD(SE) 45 days prior to the Development RFP Release Decision Point.
It produces a report detailing all technical risk and therefore is a key input to the Milestone B DAB (or equivalent) meeting that initiates a program of record.