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COTS/NDI ASSESSMENT AND SELECTION METHODOLOGY
Author(s) -
Verma Dinesh,
Powers Tipmuny,
Blanchard Benjamin S.,
Giffin Ralph G.,
Webb Rowland,
VanBuskirk David
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.1996.tb01993.x
Subject(s) - quality function deployment , analytic hierarchy process , upgrade , systems engineering , process (computing) , software deployment , computer science , reliability engineering , engineering , risk analysis (engineering) , operations research , software engineering , operations management , medicine , value engineering , operating system
In an effort to radically reduce system development times and necessary resources, the Department of Defense (DoD) is emphasizing utilization of “Commercial‐Off‐The‐Shelf (COTS)” or “Non‐Developmental Items (NDI)” in the development of new systems and the upgrade of existing systems. This paper outlines a methodology, involving the integrated application of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), to facilitate the prerequisite analysis and evaluation before making a commitment to a COTS/NDI alternative. While this COTS/NDI analysis and evaluation methodology is generic in its applicability within the system engineering process, in its current state the model based on this process has a system supportability bias.