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Policy

The SMO working with the KSC Chief Engineer serves as the KSC contact within the Agency for development of systems engineering policy.

NPD 7120.4C Program/Project Management

NPR 7120.5D NASA Space Flight Program and Project Management Requirements

NPR 7120.6 The NASA Lessons Learned Process

NPR 7120.7 NASA Information Technology, Institutional Infrastructure Program & Project Management Requirements

NPR 7123.1A NASA Systems Engineering Processes and Requirements

NPR 8000.4 Risk Management

NPD 8070.6B Technical Standards

NPD 8720.1B NASA Reliability and Maintainability Program

NPR 8735.1A Procedures For Exchanging Parts, Materials, and Safety Problem Data Utilizing the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program and NASA Advisories
Process

KDP-KSC-P-1538 NASA KSC Specifications & Standards Development Process
KDP-KSC-P-2393 KSC Lessons Learned Information System (LLIS)
KDP-KSC-P-2713 Technical Review Process
KDP-KSC-P-5031 System Definition
KDP-KSC-P-5032 Preliminary Design Phase
KDP-KSC-P-5033 Final Design Phase
KDP-KSC-P-5034 System Implementation Phase
KDP-KSC-P-5035 System Acceptance Phase
KDP-KSC-P-5036 System Delivery Phase
KDP-KSC-P-5037 System Operations Phase
KDP-KSC-P-5038 Project Closeout
KDP-KSC-P-5041 Requirements Definition
Standards

NASA Technical Standards Program
Standards Update Notification System
NASA-STD-8729.1 - Planning, Developing and Managing an Effective Reliability and Maintainability Program
ANSI/EIA 632 Processes for Engineering a System (Order from NASA Technical Standards Program)
KSC Specifications & Standards (Scroll to bottom of page to view the standards)
Tools

The SMO acts as the KSC point of contact for development, implementation and assessment of systems engineering tools.

SP-2007-6105 NASA Systems Engineering Handbook
Systems Engineering Fundamentals
NASA Work Breakdown Structure Reference Guide
Reliability & Maintainability Links
KSC-QA-6419 KSC Systems Engineering Tools Study
Polaris - Systems Engineering support
NASA Systems Engineering CoP
Techniques

Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI)
Training

The SMO acts as the KSC focal point for systems engineering training. The Agency is currently developing a standard training curriculum for systems engineering.  View the APPEL Curriculum Courses here.

Refer to the APPEL website for details on how to register for the following NASA courses.

NASA Training Courses:
Systems Engineering Applicable Courses

  1. ISE 200 Concept Exploration-Systems Engineering Fundamentals replaces SEF-1


  2. ISE 210 Developing and Implementing a System Engineer Management Plan


  3. ISE 220 System Validation and Verification replaces SV&V (updated)


  4. ISE 230 Transition, Product Delivery and Mission Operations

  5. ISE 240 Decision Analysis
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