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Description of Driving Event:

Numerous cost, schedule, technical and programmatic problems due to Prime Contractor's closure of East Coast production facility and program relocation to West Coast. Also, key members of contractor workforce did not relocate with the program resulting in lost program knowledge. Specific problems included: delayed implementation of financial systems, lost data (engineering changes notices, cost "actual" files), lost parts, lost tooling; additional schedule delays ("transition" testing); need for new equipment at contract cost (vertical transports for spacecraft); incompatibility of configuration management systems.

Similar problems could also occur after a major reorganization or merger, causing a change in systems, especially the financial systems.