Northrop Grumman OCX Team Completes SCAMPI Assessment
July 21, 2008The Northrop Grumman Corp.'s GPS Next Generation Ground Control Segment (OCX) team has completed the Standard Capability Maturity Model Integration Appraisal Method for Process Improvement (SCAMPI) software assessment, the company said.
The government uses SCAMPI appraisals to identify strengths and weaknesses of software, engineering, and management processes and to reveal acquisition development risks for corrective action, according to Northrop Grumman. These appraisals are frequently used as part of a process improvement program or for rating prospective prime contractors and their key subcontractors. The U.S. Air Force GPS Wing conducted a multi-week, comprehensive software appraisal, examining more than 1,000 documents and measuring them against hundreds of criteria, the company said.
Northrop Grumman is one of two teams under 18-month, Phase A contracts to perform systems engineering and integration; architecture design; communications and network engineering; information assurance and security; modeling and simulation; network management; software development; support, maintenance and implementation; and test and evaluation for OCX. The Air Force plans to choose one company next year to continue the program through development, deployment and sustainment in Phase B.
The OCX modernization effort will provide mission enterprise control support for existing GPS Block II and future Block III satellites, according to the Air Force. The current OCX contract for Phase A is valued at $160 million and will provide the Air Force a flexible, scalable, extensible, and service-oriented re-architecture of the current GPS ground system; Northrop Grumman competitor Raytheon is the other company involved in Phase A and competing for the Phase B award.
Northrup Grumman's SCAMPI effort was a shared accomplishment with contributions from Harris Corp., Melbourne, Fla.; Integral Systems, Inc., Lanham, Md.; Infinity Systems Engineering, Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Lockheed Martin Information Systems and Global Services, Gaithersburg, Md.
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