AEROSPACE REPORT NUMBER: TOR-2010(8591)-6, TEST LIKE YOU FLY (TLYF): ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS (18 JAN 2010)

AEROSPACE REPORT NUMBER: TOR-2010(8591)-6, TEST LIKE YOU FLY (TLYF): ASSESSMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS (18 JAN 2010)., This TOR is a product of the 2008 Mission Assurance Improvement Workshop, which was held 13-15 May 2008 at Lockheed-Martin Deer Creek Facility, Denver, Colorado. The government/industry “Test Like You Fly” (TLYF) core team worked for six months prior to the 2008 workshop to identify a suitable product and to facilitate a brainstorming session with a wider community at the workshop. The original concept was to update a chapter on TLYF that was included in the 2006 Space Vehicle Test and Evaluation Handbook that had been written as an Aerospace Corporation Technical Report [TOR-2006(8546)-4591]. The workshop team created a list of various aspects that should be addressed by a TLYF assessment and execution process. After the workshop, it became apparent that it was necessary to create the outline of the process and its elements before the original chapter could be updated. Aerospace Corporation had created a “road show” in 2007 to help various groups, including the core team, understand the basic principles of TLYF. The core team provided comments and corrections to the road show. It was decided after the workshop to use this briefing as the basis for the final workshop product, complete with annotation. This product represents a substantial improvement to the description of TLYF principles and it describes the process that can be implemented to promote mission success. NOTE: We will occasionally refer to “MIL-STD-1540” or “MIL-STD-1540E” in this document. This military standard (“Test Requirements for Launch, Upper-Stage, and Space Vehicles”) is no longer an active standard. It has been updated and issued as an Aerospace Technical Operating Report (TOR) TR-2004(8583)-1 Rev. A, and as SMC-S-016(2008). As more engineers will be familiar with the old nomenclature than with the new report numbers, we will use the MIL-STD reference. If the reference is general, we will use MIL-STD-1540 to indicate something that has been in every version. We will refer to MIL-STD-1540E only when quoting directly from its text. However, we must emphasize that no edition of this standard addresses TLYF directly, and the tests specified therein are not LYF tests.