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이 자료는 보안 문서로 등록이 되어 있습니다. 문서를 열람하시기 원하시는 분은 다음의 사용자 암호를 입력하신 후 사용하시기 바랍니다. 사용자 암호 : www.kosen21.org The Army will assume increased risks if it begins low-rate initial production of the new radar countermeasures system before determining whether key new components perform as required. The system's contractor is now making software and hardware changes to improve the system's performance and address the obsolescence of parts, reduce cost, and improve producibility. If all goes well, the contractor would complete the software changes and the Army would be able to determine whether the software performs as required before the low-rate initial production decision in early 2002. The hardware changes, however, require more time to complete. The contractor has agreed to develop new components, including a new digital receiver for detecting radar sinals (in place of the current analog receiver), by June 2002. The Army would then determine whether the hardware performs as required, including its successful integration with the software and aircraft, through developmental testing by September 2002. According to Department of Defense guidance for acquiring systems, oen of the purposes of low-late initial production is to produce production representative articles for initial operational test and evaluation. In our view, a key to assuring that these articles will be production representative is to first conduct developmental testing of the modified software and hardware together as a system in the aircraft to ensure the design is stable befor beginning low-rate initial production. By deferring the low-rate initial production decision until it has this knowledge, the Army would reduce the risk of incurring unanticipated costs to retrofit articles if the system does not perform as required.