Maturity Score

Attributes

Total

Schedule

Cost

Requirement

Technical Understanding

Technical Difficulty

Commercial

Operation and Support

Project Stage

Benchmark

6

6

6

6

6

6

6

42

Enter Contract

Project Status

6

5

6

6

7

5

5

40

Explanation

•  Cost: The cost maturity will remain immature whilst the US maintains annual contracting cycles. However, price trend data and contractual incentives do give some degree of cost confidence.

•  Technical Difficulty: The baseline assumption is that development commences with contract signature. In the case of JSF the aircraft passed its Critical Design Review over five years ago and there are currently two production aircraft from the first Low Rate Initial Production lot (LRIP 1) and 10 pre- production test aircraft flying in the program. JSF is moving beyond development and into testing phase.

•  Commercial: JPO has increased their management oversight of Lockheed Martin (LM) including via a revised SDD contract structure which rewards measurable progress. Despite LM and JPO having successfully negotiated a fixed price incentive contract for LRIP 4, Australia's first two aircraft (LRIP 6) have not yet been negotiated or contracted.

•  Operations and Support: Global sustainment arrangements are still relatively immature, however they are now becoming a focus for the US Project Office and Lockheed Martin. The NACC Project is refining its own sustainment costs based on JPO analysis and through a series of scenario-based 'wargames'.

2010 -11 DMO MPR Status - - - - -