“Published by the U.S. Air Force Space Command’s Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC),The SMC-S-014 “Space survivability program management” standard describes the basic survivability program management requirements for the system acquisition life cycle. As a management standard, this standard requires the contractor to:
The technical aspects of survivability and implementation methodology will be detailed in the contractor's survivability and vulnerability program plan. Therefore, this standard should facilitate the establishment of an efficient and effective survivability engineering program that is an integral part of the contractor's systems engineering organization.
This standard applies to space systems (i.e., consisting of space, liaison, and ground support segments) that must operate within specified performance limits when exposed to natural environments or hostile threats. All possible hostile threats shall be investigated, including at least combinations of directed energy, laser, biological, and chemical attacks.
The purchasing authority and contractor must work together to tailor this standard to meet the unique mission system threat requirements for each specific program.
The general requirements section of the standard describes the general survivability program control and management tasks, organization, functions, interfaces, and allocation of responsibilities. Specific program phase survivability management requirements are described in Section 5. The “Sequence of events” heading table provided throughout the standard provides a general sequence of events and execution periods.
The prime contractor must have a survivability and vulnerability program that establishes a survivability engineering organization. The prime contractor must define and implement a survivability program consisting of engineering disciplines designed to ensure the survivability of a system consisting of ground, connectivity, and space segments. Typically, survivability engineering is a discipline within the systems engineering organization.
The contractor's survivability engineering organization is responsible for preparing, implementing, and maintaining a survivability and vulnerability program, which includes the identification, management, and execution of all survivability and vulnerability program tasks. These include:
Survivability and vulnerability program plan: The Contractor initiates the development of a survivability and vulnerability program plan during Phase A. The survivability and vulnerability program plan addresses both the survivability and operational aspects of all segments. If the system requires ground segment hardening, the survivability and vulnerability program plan addresses both the space and ground segment elements of the system.
The first formal presentation of the survivability and vulnerability program plan is made prior to the system requirements review during Phase A, with updates prior to the preliminary design review and critical design review, respectively. Explicit implementation of this standard is accomplished through implementation of the survivability and vulnerability program plan. The survivability and vulnerability program plan describes in detail the survivability program management and technical approaches. The plan addresses, at a minimum, the organizational structure, formal management/program tasks, timelines and major milestones, functions and controls, lines of authority, contractor interface activities, survivability engineering work breakdown structure, technical tasks, hardening approach for each applicable threat environment, hardness verification assurance method, validation of system vulnerability and survivability databases.
The survivability and vulnerability program plan shall be consistent with the contractor's systems engineering management plan. This plan defines an integrated approach to engineering management of each system, subsystem, configuration element, and component for which the contractor has design, development, manufacturing, and test responsibility. The survivability and vulnerability program plan defines the hardening processes and methodologies for their implementation. The implementation of these hardening processes ensures compliance with the system's survivability and vulnerability requirements.
Our organization, which has been trying to support businesses from every sector with its testing, measurement, analysis and evaluation studies carried out in a wide range for years, has a strong staff that closely follows the developments in the world in the field of science and technology and constantly improves itself. In this context, testing services in accordance with the "SMC-S-014 Space survivability program management" standard are also provided to businesses.
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