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Originally Posted by
tucumseh
Thank you.
I've also mentioned a couple of truisms in defence procurement.
You can always tell a programme manager's background by what he omits from the contract, or later waives to meet time or cost. Practicioners who have worked backwards through the acquisition (not just procurement) cycle seldom omit anything of importance. Whereas the inexperienced will omit things like support, training, functional safety, and so on.
Airworthiness management is the same. If someone managing the Attaining of airworthiness has not first done Continuing and then Maintaining, then he is severely limited because he has no experience of solving the problems that arise, so tends not to avoid the avoidable. The current regulatory set focuses almost entirely on Continuing, to the almost total exclusion of the higher activity of Maintaining.