Architecture Supported Systems Engineering Tool (ASSET)

ManTech provides complex programs a defined and repeatable systems engineering solution that improves quality and accurate engineering rigor while passing significant costs savings onto the government.

With budget constraints, Program Managers find themselves having to do more with less. Policy continues to levy additional requirements on programs. The importance managing cost, schedule, and performance has never been more critical. ManTech has a defined and repeatable systems engineering approach that can be tailored to meet the needs of programs while identifying efficiencies to streamline program acquisition efforts. This technique empowers the program managers and systems engineers with quality systems engineering that meets the needs of the program, key stakeholders, and ultimately the Warfighter.

The Architecture Supported Systems Engineering Tool, or ASSET, is ManTech’s unique approach to conducting total lifecycle systems engineering while using defined architecture frameworks as the foundation for the program’s success. ManTech’s ASSET process was built on the best practices of systems engineering, project management, Capability Maturity Model for Integration (CMMI) and agile software development best practices. ManTech, a CMMI Level 3 and ISO 9001:2008 certified company, implements ASSET with our highly skilled employees that include Certified Systems Engineering Professionals (CSEP), Project Management Professionals (PMP), Certified Scrum Masters (CSM), and graduate and undergraduate level engineers and scientists. ManTech uses common architecture frameworks artifacts as the bi-product of the systems engineering process and has a build-process that follows the systems engineering

“Vee” and ensures they are measurable, testable, traceable and trainable. ASSET ultimately ensures the Program Manager has the right information to make informed decisions on cost, schedule and performance.

ManTech has mapped nearly 6,000 data points to lifecycle systems engineering activities; including architecture, key elements, performance parameters, stakeholders and deliverables. This ensures a defined and repeatable approach for systems engineering that is effective and efficient. ASSET can be tailored to meet the program’s systems engineering needs.

ManTech’s ASSET process ensures our systems engineers are documenting operational, system, software and technical analysis within a compliant architecture framework, ensuring a consistent and accurate technical solution is used across acquisition, testing and training requirements. ASSET breaks down stovepipes across functional organizations, negating the need for additional teams and resources to provide “bolt-on” DoDAF architecture. Our ASSET process ensures systems engineering analysis is conducted and captured within regulatory, enterprise, and acquisition compliant products.

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ManTech’s ASSET process has proven cost and schedule savings while providing accurate and quality system and operational analysis to

key program stakeholders.

ManTech’s ASSET process produces system and software architecture that is able to identify options for equipment purchases, system or service utilization, and potential gaps in the current configuration/infrastructure – gaps that can be identified, assessed and mitigated as necessary.

Quality AssuranceManTech’s ASSET process promotes exceptional quality deliverables are prepared, consistent with the systems engineering analysis that it captures. ASSET uses standard formats and templates, and is accompanied with quality assurance checklists that ensure:

• Engineering rigor to analyze systems, functionality, business processes• Measureable and Testable requirements• Traceability across products, requirements, and enterprise architecture(s)• Compliance with Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) requirements• Standardized formats for consistent and repeatable processes• Warfighter roles and responsibilities• Implementation of best practices and continuous process improvement

Cost and Schedule SavingsBy using ASSET principles, ManTech has shortened systems engineering and integration schedules of over 70%, while providing exceptional systems engineering support to our stakeholders.

ASSET has proven to do more with less. ASSET eliminates redundant tasks and promotes cost and schedule efficiencies while meeting the needs of the program, key stakeholders and ultimately the Warfighters.

With ManTech, you have an ASSET to your Program.

ManTech’s ASSET engineering process provides programs several key benefits:

• Provides an integrated systems engineering solution that assimilates key program stakeholders requirements;

• Reduces program risks through thoroughly documenting systems engineering analysis with common formats, elements, metrics and deliverables that clearly identify gaps, overlaps and critical operational issues;

• Reduces costs to programs by eliminating redundant and avoidable efforts;

• Streamlines requirements and is proven to shorten schedules by up to 70%;

• Increases the quality and accuracy of project deliverables.

Functional Stakeholder IntegrationManTech’s ASSET process empowers key stakeholders with accurate and quality data that ensures integrity and relays a consistent message across functional areas. Key functions that ASSET benefits stakeholders include:

Program Management: The Program Manager can make key acquisition decisions based on ASSET. Program Managers can evaluate system alternatives, costs, performance and risks. ASSET provides the Program Manager the resources to justify decision making. By using ManTech and the ASSET process, the Program Manager will ensure the information is accurate from a technical perspective.

Systems Engineering and Design: ASSET empowers systems engineers with a common medium to analyses system performance, identify and mitigate risks, and conduct trade-studies that support system design and performance.

Testing: ASSET ensures measurable and testable performance parameters that are captured and traced to test plans, test cases and operational requirements.

Requirements: ASSET ensures requirements traceability – from top-level vision and enterprise architecture – down to critical technical performance parameters, compliant with enterprise, segment, regulatory and statutory policies.

Operations: ASSET ensures the focus is on the Warfighter, and the systems engineering analysis is captured from the Warfighter’s point of view. ASSET involves user interviews and requirements validation to capture effective and suitable operator roles and responsibilities.

Training: By capturing the Warfighter’s Point-of-View, it allows for seamless transition to program training requirements such as training manuals, exercises, and Computer-Based Training (CBT).

Operations and Maintenance (O&M): By documenting system and network configurations, ASSET integrates in-service engineering change proposals (ECP) processes to ensure impacts to system changes and upgrades are documented and analyzed.

Architecture Supported Systems Engineering Tool (ASSET)

For more information, contact:Johnathan AllinProgram Manager Phone: 843.261.7946johnathan.allin@mantech.com http://www.mantech.com

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Requirements Operations

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Cost, Performance, and Schedule Decision Making

Scenario-BasedTraining and Exercises

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Traceability

ManTech provides a disciplined systems engineering process that documents analysis within an integrated architecture solution that

impacts key stakeholder requirements