ITAS

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ITA/SMA ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
2005 Compliance Verification Workshop Park City,
Utah September 13, 2005
Bill Kipatrick/Bill Wessel
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Introduction and ITA Status

• ITA and SMA Roles and Responsibilities have been
  incorporated into the July 05 ITA Implementation
  Guide (thru efforts of SMA Directors)
• The iTA is currently being modified to match the
  Agency Management Model (ITA Rev B/C)
• NPD1240.4 and NPR1240.1 have been updated and are
  in a pre-NODIS review
• ITA Budget has been established and will be
  executed via Agency Service Pool
• Warrant Status
• STWH 21 of 98 Agency Programs/Projects are
  warranted
• DTWH 34 of 50 Disciplines are warranted
• Additional 20 have been selected but not yet
  warranted

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iTA Principles

• iTA owns all technical requirements originating
  from the various engineering disciplines
• Core Standards
• Project unique requirements
• Authority is around technical decisions affecting
  safe and reliable operations (eg, human safety)
• Independent of project funding and organizational
  structure
• Dependent on highly skilled engineering workforce
• Accountable during full life cycle

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CHECKS AND BALANCES
Program
Cost
Schedule
Execution
Safe and Reliable Ops
Independent Technical Authority (Engineering)
Assurance (SMA)
Technical Requirements
Compliance Verification
Technical Conscience
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Authority Flow
Administrator
Mission Directorate
Chief Engineer (Technical Authority)
Center Director
OSMA
Program Authority
Policy
Discipline Warrant
System Warrant
Program
Engr Dir
SMA Dir
Project Office
Independent Technical Authority
STWH
DTWH
CDL
Engineering Support
Technical Authority
In-line Engineering
Independent Assurance
Assurance Authority
Assurance
Program/Project Office
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Engineering Process Flow Relationships
SRMQ Engineering Development
Engineering iTA

• Requirements Analysis
• Establish safety, reliability, maintainability
  and quality engineering requirements
• Provide lead and/or support to SRMQA analyses

• Requirements, analysis, Design
• Integrate all technical requirements
• Provide lead and/or support to safety and
  reliability analyses
• Design/analysis

Approval authority for all technical requirements
Integrate into design
Approval authority for safety analysis products
Risk Analysis
Hazard Analysis

• Perform Independent
• Quality Assurance
• Compliance Verification

FMEA/CIL
Design Products Hardware/Software Integration/Veri
fication
Approval authority for implementation of all
technical requirements
Approval
CoFR
Concurrence
In-line Engineering (project support team)
iTA
Assurance