GOES-R MANAGEMENT CONTROL PLAN (MCP)

System integration is defined as the integration of flight and ground systems for observatory level end to
end testing. Interface milestones are outlined in the Program Master Schedule.
5.2.3 Programmatic Thresholds
The GOES-R Risk Management Plan outlines specific thresholds for cost, schedule, and technical risk
reporting.
Thresholds for the cost impact for a particular segment are based upon projected percentage overrun for
that segment in combination with the availability of prudent cost reserves. Total cost risk is determined
by a combination of impact and probability of occurrence.
At the project level, GOES-R follows the Goddard Space Flight Center guidelines for healthy
contingency (20% contingency on unliened cost-to-go). This metric is tracked monthly by the program
office. Similarly, schedule risk is based on the critical path and schedule contingency health.
Risk thresholds are designed to communicate cost and schedule risk and mitigations far in advance of
impacting budget and schedule control thresholds outlined in the Level I Requirements.
5.2.4 Technical Thresholds
The Program Systems Engineering Lead will identify system level metrics to monitor and track. Each
Project Systems Engineering Lead is responsible for identifying and managing the mission resources
allocated for their respective system and subsystem segment. Each Project Systems Engineering Lead
and Program Systems Engineering Lead will identify resources that need to be monitored.
The Program Systems Engineering Lead defines acceptable resource margins and establishes a margin
management philosophy based on various stages of the mission lifecycle. As the system architecture
matures, the precision of the resource estimates will improve, as will the method of estimating the
resources requirement. Resource margins shall be met in accordance with GSFC-STD-1000. Both the
Flight Project and Ground Segment Project will track technical resource margins at their level and report
margin status to the program.
5.3 Oversight and Reporting
The major reporting bodies for GOES-R are summarized in the figure below:
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