ACQUISITION STRATEGY PAPER (ASP)

Description

The ASP presents the Integrated Product Team’s strategy for the technical, management, and procurement approach that will be used to execute the program.  Each of the individual strategies, to include human factors, is planned in greater detail in the IPP.Human factors input to the ASP is the strategy to be employed to ensure that the system being acquired is well designed and appropriate for the workforce that will operate and maintain it. This strategy should be consistent with the nature, size, and complexity of the system.The strategy should define how the level of human performance necessary to meet the required system performance will be assured. Additionally, the strategy should describe how the system design would be influenced by the capabilities and limitations of the operators, maintainers, and support personnel.