3. Research for Service Analysis: Large Projects HF Integration When Proposing Large Acquisition Project 3-12

Specifying Contents of the Transfer Package. For large projects, the findings from the Research for Service Analysis can provide valuable insights for the stages in the formal AMS process that are not adequately communicated in an ONA, CONOPS or requirements. As one FAA Program Manager indicated:

“We found that the contractor [who was implementing the solution] was revisiting things we solved 2 years ago, so we decided to let the contractor see the prototype developed during concept development. We’d spent years doing the original concept exploration to develop the CONOPS and requirements. Why throw all that expertise away? There’s a lot that they have learned that isn’t captured in the CONOPS and requirements. Let’s give the contractor a head start. They will have new ideas too. I wish I had done this earlier. It would have saved a lot of money.”

The transfer package should include both documents and any storyboards or prototypes that have been developed during the Research for Service Analysis.
The next few pages provide examples of HF content for a range of transfer packages.