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Major IPDS Upgrades Deployment Expert Training and Process Asset Library The Integrated Product Development System (IPDS) contains processes, training, reference material and tools (enablers) which define the way that Raytheon does business. The IPDS Team, working within the Raytheon Engineering Common Program (RECP), recently deployed major upgrades to the training and enabler portions of the system. Mark Warner of Intelligence and Information Systems (IIS), Aurora, Colo., and his Deployment Network Steering Group have revamped, piloted and formally deployed a 3 day IPDS Deployment Expert Training Workshop. Steve Clark of Integrated Defense Systems (IDS), Bedford, Mass. and the Process Asset Library (PAL) team are currently populating an IPDS PAL that gives users easy access to local (site and business) enablers. Deployment Expert Training A team of Raytheon’s most experienced Deployment Experts developed a new threeday IDPS Deployment Expert (DE) Training Workshop in 2003. They piloted the workshop in Vienna, Va. last fall. El Segundo, Calif. hosted a second class in January of this year. The course materials were released with IPDS version 2.2.3 in November. The major goal of having this enterprise-level training is to ensure competency and reduce the variability of deployment expertise by ensuring that all candidates receive training in deployment techniques and enablers that have evolved over the past 5 years. Other goals were to provide an interesting and effective learning experience for the participants, and to improve the value quotient for program teams engaging with IPDS. Lee Belisle of IIS, Aurora, and the IPDS DE training sub-team used Raytheon Six Sigma TM techniques to compile feedback from students, instructors, and DE clients to improve the training workshop. Participant surveys determined the effectiveness of each module in achieving the desired objective. Interviews with instructors, program leadership personnel, and feedback from a Six Sigma project, conducted by the Raytheon Learning Institute, provided input for the voice of the customer. Desirable and Undesirable Effects were defined and gaps between the training material and the DE competency model were identified. The team then conducted a Pareto analysis to 28 identify areas where maximum improvement could be realized. The concerns that surfaced included material redundancy, long presentation periods and more theory than application. Addressing the higher-priority needs resulted in an updated, more concise presentation package with additional businessfocused exercises that progressively build on one another and provide more hands-on opportunities to work with the tools. Mark Warner, Rob Sawyer (IIS Garland, Texas) and Sean Conley (Raytheon Technical Services Company LLC, Indianapolis, Ind.) piloted the approach featuring these improvements in Vienna last September. The pilot featured exercises that were structured around a recent program pursuit specific to that business environment. Program personnel added realism to the experience by supporting the exercises. Participant feedback was collected over shorter-than-usual intervals (half-day increments) in order to capture a more granular response to the course under construction. While the initial pilot revealed some timing imperfections, feedback indicated that the students in general responded favorably to the improvements. Feedback and lessons learned from the pilot were integrated into the course material and the resulting package was published with the November release of IPDS. Nineteen students attended the second training session this past January in El Segundo. The next DE Training course is planned for Garland during the second week in March, and RECP will conduct additional workshops to meet demand (approximately once each quarter). Consult the Deployment section of IPDS for further info. Process Asset Library The IPDS Process Asset Library (PAL) is an enterprise-wide asset library incorporated into IPDS. The PAL responds to the requirement that IPDS integrate and provide easy access to best practices across Raytheon businesses. It provides the capability to submit and/or retrieve IPDS and local site assets. The IPDS PAL is easily accessed from the “IPDS PAL” tab on the IPDS homepage: http://ipds.msd.ray.com/Current/. The main objective of the IPDS PAL is to provide a common repository of assets for businesses and sites in order to promote the One Company initiative while increasing cost effectiveness and productivity. The One Company theme is achieved through the use of IPDS as the common framework for asset storage. This is particularly useful for organizations whose process structure is based on IPDS. RECP funds PAL management so the cost effectiveness objective is achieved. Each business maintains local control over its assets but does not incur the overhead costs associated with maintenance, control, reporting, and measurement. By sharing process assets across the Raytheon enterprise, productivity is increased because each business has access to all other sites’ assets. RayPAL currently offers a broad range of features and functionality. It has versatile and easy-to- upload (asset contribution) and download capabilities. It also has a robust search engine that allows a user to filter his or her search by CMMI® Process Area, site, asset type and functional discipline. Asset submitters can specify which group they want to endorse their material (Engineering Process Group, Engineering Council, etc.). Once an asset is accepted into the library, the user is automatically notified via e-mail. Asset usage measures allow the PAL administrator to report on how often specific items are downloaded. Users can provide a review rating (0 to 5 stars) and add comments to the system for assets that they have downloaded. The system maintains an average of all ratings submitted for each asset. The rating and comments can be viewed prior to downloading material. Finally, a Users Guide is available on the PAL homepage of IPDS. The PAL is a corporate asset designed for sharing. It provides all of the functionality required to meet CMMI criteria: accessibility, control, measurement, accounting and configuration control. The RayPAL offers a consistent format for acquiring assets across all sites. It enhances process and enabler improvement through ready comparisons to other sites and is cost effective for your organization. Falls Church, Va. is currently using the IPDS Process Asset Library as their site PAL. We encourage you to submit copies of your processes and enablers and do likewise. - John Panichelli, Mark Warner, Steve Clark
As a technology-driven company, Raytheon places the highest value on technical excellence. Each year, the company honors achievements in technology within Raytheon Engineering and Technology. Individuals and teams across the company, nation and world who receive this award are recognized for their excellence in technology, as well as the contribution their technology makes to the company and society as a whole. Recipients of this award are joined by the leadership team, colleagues and guests as we celebrate their remarkable achievements. This year, we are proud to present the Excellence in Technology Awards in Washington D.C. at the National Air and Space Museum’s new Steven F. Udvar–Hazy Center. This new hangar-home houses such historical air and space triumphs as the Space Shuttle Enterprise, Enola Gay, Concorde and 135 other space vehicles. Towering 160 feet over the hangar is The Donald D. Engen Tower air-traffic control center, which opened December 15, 2003 on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers’ first flight — thanks to a $1 million donation and $250,000 donation in kind by Raytheon. Paired with impressive technology achievements, the sight is inspirational, exciting and encouraging as we honor the past, reward the present and look toward the future. Raytheon is a healthy technical company and fertile ground for new ideas and new approaches to meet diverse business challenges. Our innovation and technology benchmarks ensure Raytheon’s place in an increasingly competitive world. Equally important are the ideas that produce new products, reduce costs, improve quality and ensure customer satisfaction. All of these ideals are represented in the Excellence in Technology Awards. The future is bright and, with engineers like these, we will be part of it. Please join us in congratulating this year’s winners of the 2003 Excellence in Technology Awards. 2003 EXCELLENCE IN TECHNOLOGY AWARD WINNERS HRL LABORATORIES, INC. John A. Roth, Next Generation Infrared Detector Technology INTEGRATED DEFENSE SYSTEMS Phillip W. Thiessen, Sea Based X-Band Platform System Definition DARPA Wide Band Gap Semiconductor Development Team Steven Bernstein, Nicholas J. Kolias, Patricia M. Kolias, Jerome E. Lubenau, Joseph A. Smolko DD(X) Systems Engineering Team William R. Desrochers, Mark J. Munkacsy, Paul E. Weeks, Brian H. Wells, Frank L. Zupancic INTELLIGENCE & INFORMATION SYSTEMS Solomon A. De Picciotto, Orbital Analysis Cube Antenna Team Daniel L. Goulette, Robert H. Mceachern, Charles J. Mitchell, Theresa Ann Olson, Raphael J. Welsh DCGS ISR Architecture Team Tunney A. Dong, Zhen-Qi Gan, Joseph L. Shivers, John M. Terry, Stephen A. Yates INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Marty Tice, Excellence in leveraging the ORION Network as a Competitive Discriminator MISSILE SYSTEMS Chris E. Geswender, Guided Projectiles and Strike Weapons Marty Rupp, RF Systems Design Multi-disciplinary Design Analysis and Optimization Capability Team Alvin R. Balius, Jason B. Blauert, Raymond J. Spall, Timothy T. Takahashi, Damon C. Turner NETWORK CENTRIC SYSTEMS John “Clay” Carson, Technical Excellence in Architecture, Sensor and Emerging Technologies FCS Communications Networking Team Louise E. Borrelli, Timothy J. Hughes, Scott Seidel, Thomas E. Young Victory Integrated Product Team Richard Ajer, Richard E. Bornfreund, Mary J. Hewitt, Ray Salafian, Kenton T. Veeder RAYTHEON AIRCRAFT COMPANY Aircraft Taxi Simulation Team John R.E. Kollman, Deepak K. Mullick RAYTHEON SYSTEMS LIMITED Galileo Receiver Development Team Peter Alan Hellen, Daniel Jan Sojkowski RAYTHEON TECHNICAL SERVICES COMPANY LLC Blue Force Tracking Team Clinton D. Brock, Andrew R. Crum, Christopher J. Girard, Rimas J. Guzalaitis, Christian P. Mcmahon SPACE AND AIRBORNE SYSTEMS Kirk A. Miller, Multi-spectral Targeting System Mechanical Engineering Modular Digital EW System Integrated Product Development Team David J. Fairfield, Douglas E. Fullmer, Mark H. Heiser, Robert S. Loomis, Jay Y. Shu SAR Autofocus Development Team Michael Y. Yin, John P. Kilkelly, Rachel L. Lewis, Helen L. Sun, Michael W. Whitt Tile Array HTM-4 T/R/ Module Team Alan L. Kovacs, Jerold K. Rowland, David K. Sakamoto, Craig K. Shoda, Samuel D. Tonomura 29
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