Abstract
AbstractDuring the past 40 years, the defense industry has experienced phenomenal growth in the amount of work subcontracted by prime defense contractors. Industry wide, subcontracted work has risen from 9 percent in the 1950s to over 53 percent today. Along with the rise in subcontracted work, has come an increase in problems associated with purchased products. More products are being received which do not perform as expected, or are delivered late because the design or testing took much longer than anticipated. The source of these problems, however, can quite often be traced back to poor requirements descriptions initially given to the subcontractors. This paper describes a preferred process for flowing technical requirements from prime contract sources to a subcontract, to create an adequate definition of the products being procured. This process has been developed by a multi‐discipline team from the Boeing Defense & Space Group, sponsored by the Subcontracts Management organization, and is applicable to all subcontract procurements involving requirements which have been flowed from a prime contract.
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