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just went through the ACQ training this week, IOC means the plane has passed operational testing (IOT&E). Meaning there should be very few, if any, bugs left. T
by therobot24 10y ago
just went through the ACQ training this week, IOC means the plane has passed operational testing (IOT&E). Meaning there should be very few, if any, bugs left. The Full Rate Production (FRP) decision milestone was already passed and the contract should already be awarded for production - within the lifecycle of the product we are now in the Operations and Support phase, meaning fielding.
FOC just means all unit lots are fielded.
- s_q_b 10y agoThe transition from IOC to FOC is outlined as part of the DoD acquisition contract, but under statute it means, "We've got at least one unit with associated services being run by the customer at at least one location." That's not a very high bar. Today, the deployment of a weapons system involves a lot of integration with the existing information technology stack, for "network centric warfare" or whatever the new buzzword is for "using high speed data links for over-the-horizon kills." In addition to the systems integration, you're usually debugging the human processes such as training and maintenance throughout. That's where the bugs shake out in the transition from IOC->FOC.