Roughly 85% of lifecycle operating and support costs are determined when requirements are set early in the life of a program. Design For Operability (DFO) identifies operations and supportability considerations and trade-offs early and throughout the Design, Development, Test and Evaluation (DDT&E) phase, thus significantly contributing to total system performance and lifecycle cost reduction, which is critical to a project's success.
We can implement DFO for your project by establishing effective developer-operator relationships early and continuously throughout your project using operations-focused project management processes, tools and products.
We offer:
- Development of an effective Concept of Operations to drive operations requirements, functional allocations and operations performance analyses
- Identification of key system operational characteristics and figures of merit
- Performance/cost-optimized design requirements to provide best-value life-cycle cost
- DFO-influenced requirements management, including development, validation and verification
- Program risk reduction early in the design process by including the operations perspective
- Informed design/production/operations trades through well-defined operations requirements and metrics
- Systems requirements analyses for high-payoff "bang for the buck" determinations in partnership with the customer
- Responsive use of space flight operations lessons learned, experience, performance metrics, analyses, trades, models and simulations and specialty engineering
- Program metrics management
Transition to Operations
United Space Alliance ensures a continuous emphasis and collaboration on DFO through the transition to operations phase to create a seamless and effective experience. We can continue these DFO concepts during operations to maintain best-value mission success and safety through process improvements identified with Lean Six Sigma (L6S) capability, processes and tools.