A System Design Review (SDR) is a scheduled review of many government-contractor relations, which ensures continuous involvement throughout a program. The SDR was originally defined in the Air Force's MIL-STD-1521.
The SDR is a technical review conducted to evaluate the manner in which a project's system requirements have been allocated to
configuration item
The term configuration item (CI) refers to the fundamental structural unit of a configuration management system. Examples of CIs include individual Computer hardware, hardware or software components. The configuration-management system oversees the ...
s,
manufacturing
Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a r ...
considerations, next phase planning,
production
Production may refer to:
Economics and business
* Production (economics)
* Production, the act of manufacturing goods
* Production, in the outline of industrial organization, the act of making products (goods and services)
* Production as a stati ...
plans, and the engineering process that produced the allocation.
This review is conducted when the system definition is at a point where system characteristics and configuration items are defined. A successful SDR establishes a 'functional
baseline'.
The MIL-STD-1521 was cancelled in 1995 without replacement for the SDR material. Since that time, the DoD 5000 system has been created which uses technical reviews as described in Chapter 4 of the
Defense Acquisition Guide
The Defense Acquisition University (DAU) is a corporate university of the United States Department of Defense offering "acquisition, technology, and logistics" (AT&L) training to military and Federal civilian staff and Federal contractors. DAU is ...
discussions on their role or shown in the diagram of the Integrated Defense Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Life Cycle Management Framework wallchart.
There is no identical replacement for the previous SDR, but the System Functional Review (SFR) is similar.
See also
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Design review (U.S. government)
In the United States military integrated acquisition lifecycle the Technical section has multiple acquisition "Technical Reviews". Technical reviews and audits assist the acquisition and the number and types are tailored to the acquisition. Over ...
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Functional requirement
References
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External links
* DoD Integrated Framework Chart IFC
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