# Presentation: 798701

## NASA Quality - Workmanship 

**Tom Whitmeyer**
**Manager, Agency Quality Program**
**June 26, 2001**** **
**Workmanship Team Meeting**

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## NASA relies on contractor performance

- $13.6 Billion Total Appropriation

- Mostly Facility Maintenance and Personal Cost

- Includes JPL at $1.3B

- Procurement “excellence” is essential

## Distribution of contracts by dollar amount

- Currently 90% of NASA Obligations are PBC

- FY 2000 - 991 new contracts
- By comparison there where 2,000 Grants, and 415 cooperative agreements

## Influence of consolidation   

- Next highest is Raytheon at 3.5%

- Since FY 1988 NASA Awards to Large Business has increased from $6.4B to $9.5B a 49% Increase

## Supply chain management is becoming critical

- “Where aerospace quality is concerned....there is no competitive advantage”*

- *  Quote for Americas Aerospace Quality Group

- Approximately 60 - 80 % of prime contracting is now out-sourced

- The major “primes” are using each others supply base

- Overall 31.5% of NASA direct and NASA  subcontract awards are to small businesses

## Aviation dominates the contract base, and is leading industry practice development

- US Aerospace Industry Sales
- (by product Group)

- $144 Billion

- NASA is 9% of the Overall Total

## Aerospace industry quality requirements are shifting   

## Industry coordination “was”

**SAE - AAQG**
**AIA - MMRC**
**AIA - ADQMC**
- National Defense Industries
- Government Elec. Ind Assoc
- American Helicopter Soc
- Aircraft Electronics Assoc.
**AIA-Supplier Mgt Council**
**Airline Transport Assoc.**
**Airline Supplier Assoc **

- _Tier 1_Vehicle / Propulsion / System Integration / PAH

**FAA**

**DoD / DCMA**

**NASA**

- NADCAP

**Industry coordination “was”**

## Industry coordination “is becoming”

**Industry coordination “is becoming”**

- Government and Industry
- Aviation and Space
- (with minor supplementation)

## This integration will take 

**significant coordination**

**Work Teams**

**NASA Forums**

**Other Countries**

**Other Agencies**

**Industry Forums**

**Consolidated Approach to the **
**Supply Management**

**Inputs**

***Coordination***
***Process***

**Output**

**ISO TC 20 SC 14**

- Focus on improving supplier performance (process control) not policing multiple variations of similar quality requirements

- Leverage off the influence of the Agency and the overall Aero/Space Industry

## NASA’s Supply Chain Management Strategy

- Analyze

- Results

- Re-Deploy

- Approach

- Planning

- Implementation

- Current

*Stand alone -self sustaining*

*Supporting project/contract management*

* **Add on, after the fact*

*Integrated*

*Discipline Unique*

*All or nothing*

*Active, proportional,” partnering”*

- Quality

- Engineering

- Report

- File

- Risk Based

- Involvement

- Communication

- Procurement

- Finance

- Property

* **Built into contract/project*

*Static, “cut-paste’, “us-them”*

- Levels of Surveillance in Specific Areas

*Surveillance where needed, *
*when needed , to the degree needed*

*0%*

*100%*

*or*

*High Risk*
*More Definition*

*Low Risk*

## NASA Supply Chain Management Process

## NASA Supply Chain Management

## NASA Supply Chain Management

## What is needed from a workmanship perspective?

**Continued transition in standards**
**ESD (Transition to S20.20 in work)**
**Cable and Crimp (IPC A-620 release fall 2001)**
**Surface Mount (combined with soldering)**
**Soldering (ANSI J001 + supplementation -- 2003?)**
**Others**
**More information on “why” to support risk-tradeoffs**
**Workmanship reference material**
**More information on “how” to support tailoring of “generic” standards**

## Workmanship issues/challenges

**What are the issues and challenges? **
**Continued reference to NHB series under contracts**
**Status and strategic objectives of workmanship training**
**Ability to keep track status/changes to VCS**
**Addressing new technologies**
**Addressing new missions (ISS operation as an example)**
**Coordination with industry via PBC environment**
**Expanded role beyond “standards development”**

## Code Q Objective for this meeting

**Agreement on a “workmanship” approach that addresses these and other related issues/challenges**