Risk Analysis and Mitigation Strategy for ACD

Schedule slips and cost overruns are warning signs that the test program will be impacted. To minimize the risk and ensure that reliability is not compromised, this paper outlines a system engineering approach to analyze the risk and develop a mitigation strategy to reduce the cost overruns without impacting operational or functional reliability. This paper will describe space instrument system that was deployed, and provide a hypothesis on how the strategy could have minimized the schedule slips within the bounds of cost and quality.