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ASAG Minutes

Tuesday, June 6, 2006

Next Meeting:

TUESDAY, July 11, 2006

1:00-3:00 pm
FOB 10A - Room 400 West

Members Present:

  Name Position Organization
1 Malinda Battle Ex. Sec. ATO-A
2 JoAnne Elliott Alternate ATO-T
3 Lewis Fisher Alternate ATO-F
4 Brandy Ingargiola Alternate ATO-A
5 Duc Le Member ATO-P
6 Tim O’Hara Member ATO-P
7 Mark White* Member ALO-400
8 David Woodson Member ATO-A
9 Kevin Young Member ATO-E

*Replaced Jack Daly, ALO-400

Visitors/Presenters:

  Name ASAG Purpose Organization
1 Alex Batson KSN Support IPA/ATO-F
2 Betty Falato CRD – Presenter ATO-P
3 Christine Hagaman

Tech. Group. LLC

Presenter/T& E Support Q&S Team/AJW-1110
4 H.T. Parker, Jr. CRD Support ATO-P
5 Michael Virga T&E ATO-W/

AJW-1110

6 Stephany Watson KSN – Presenter ATO-A

Highlights:

  1. Administrative Items
  2. Change 06-42, Concept and Requirements Definition Guidance
  3. Changes,06-11 through 06-14, Test & Evaluation Policy and Guidance
  4. KSN demonstration

General:

Administrative Items:

  • In the absence of David Lankford, the meeting was chaired by David Woodson, ATO-A.
  • The April 6 minutes were approved.

Proposed AMS Changes:

Concept and Requirements Guidance (CRD), (Change 06-42):

Betty Falato, ATO-P presented a briefing for the proposed CRD guidance. She also introduced H.T. Parker from ATO-P, who had also helped to develop the guidance. Betty indicated that they were seeking ASAG approval for this change. Betty identified concerns with safety, quantification of shortfalls, human factors, security activities, and ROM cost estimate for legacy alternative. Betty indicated that Safety was not happy with the guidance but did not non-concur and that ATO-S and ATO-P need to resolve safety issuesSafety and Security needed to resolve some internal issues before recommending changes to the guidance. Likewise, Security was not happy with the guidance but did not non-concur. Human Factors also was not in agreement with the guidance because Human Factors was not included. They may submit changes at a later date. Regarding the ROM cost estimate for legacy alternative, Lewis Fisher stated that OMB does not consider legacy as an alternative so that should not be included in the CRD. David Woodson asked about the cost of doing nothing and how this would be captured. Lewis responded that this becomes becomes part of the shortfall analysis. Betty indicated that they were still receiving comments just prior to the time the ASAG convened. The CRD Guidance was submitted to ASAG members on 5/16/06 for comments by 5/30. After much discussion it was suggested that a meeting be arranged with ATO-A, ATO-P, System Engineering and Operation Research, and ATO-F to resolve the the issues regarding shortfall analysis quantification of shortfallsissues. Betty asked that the ASAG Chairman arrange the meeting with Steve Bradford. ATO-P wants to issue the guidance now while recognizing that changes may have to be made at a later date. The ASAG endorsed the change contingent on the outcome of the meeting with ATO-A and ATO-P. David Lankford is to arrange the meeting with Steve Bradford and provide the outcome of that meeting to the ASAG members. The guidance will be updated based on the meeting results and forwarded electronically to the ASAG members for a final review. The ASAG will be given 5 working days to complete the review and provide any comments to Betty. ATO-P, System Engineering will work with Human Factors to resolve the human factors issues Safety, and Security to address concerns in these areas..

Actions:

  1. David Lankford to arrange meeting with Steve Bradford, ATO-P Operations Research and ATO-F.
  2. Malinda to notify ASAG members of outcome of meeting between ATO-A and ATO-P.
  3. Betty to update the guidance based on meeting outcome, and provide the final copy to Malinda.
  4. Malinda will submit the revised guidance to ASAG members for final review (5 working days).

Test and Evaluation Gold Standard Policy & Guidance (Changes 06-11 through 06-14:

Christine Hagaman and Mike Virga provided the comment results to the ASAG. Christine briefed on the changes made since the last ASAG review. She indicated that most of the additional comments received were editorial. There were no additional comments or concerns expressed by the ASAG. The ASAG endorsed the changes as presented. Christine will provide the final documents to Malinda for processing.

Actions:

  1. Christine Hagaman to submit the final documents to Malinda for processing.

  2. Malinda to process changes 06-11 through 06-14 for final approval.

Other:

KSN Demonstration. Stephany Watson introduced Alex Batson who provided the KSN demonstration. Alex explained the KSN capabilities. ASAG members had questions and concerns about the capability for all reviewers to see the comments/changes made by all previous reviewers. Alex explained that in order for each reviewer to have access to other reviewer comments, we would need to use collaborative conferencing. He said this feature is not active in KSN at this time. Alex suggested that the KSN might be a good tool for the ASAG to establish a document library and it can also now be used to route documents for sequential review.

New Member. Mark White replaces Jack Daly as the ALO-400, National Logistics Division (Real Property) ASAG member.

Action: Malinda will prepare an administrative change to update the ASAG membership.

Future Meeting Schedule: 2006

These dates are for planning purposes. The chairman may change the dates if necessary, or the meeting may be canceled for lack of agenda items. ASAG members will be notified in advance of any changes in the schedule and to confirm the meetings as scheduled.

(Note: Request initiated for Conference space in FOB10A)

Date

Location

Date

Location

Tuesday, Jul 11 FOB 10A, Room 400W Tuesday, Nov 7 5AB
Tuesday, Aug 1 5AB Tuesday, Dec 6 5AB
Tuesday, Sep 12 5AB    
Tuesday, Oct 3 5AB    

ACTION ITEMS SUMMARY

Item

Description

Change Request No.

Person(s) Responsible

Due Date

Remarks

Status

O/C

1.

CRD Guidance 06-42 David Lankford

TBD

Meet with Steve Bradford O
      Malinda Battle

TBD

Notify ASAG members of Lankford/Bradford meeting results O
      Betty Falato

TBD

Update guidance based on meeting results O
      Malinda Battle and ASAG Members

TBD

Revised Guidance submitted to ASAG members for final review O

2

T&E Policy & Guidance 06-11-14 Christine Hagaman

TBD

Submit final T&E documents to Malinda for processing. (Note: Change submitted for approval on 6/8/06)  

3.

ASAG Membership TBD

Malinda Battle

TBD Issue Admin. Change to update ASAG membership O