文摘
Schedule slips and cost overruns are warning signs that the test program will be impacted. To minimize the risk and ensure that reliability is not compromised, this paper outlines a system engineering approach to analyze the risk and develop a mitigation strategy to reduce the cost overruns without impacting operational or functional reliability. This paper will describe space instrument system that was deployed, and provide a hypothesis on how the strategy could have minimized the schedule slips within the bounds of cost and quality.