scope:

PURPOSE. This procedure establishes the process for planning and conducting Integrated Independent Reviews for Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) products.

APPLICABILITY. The Integrated Independent Review (IIR) process applies to the formulation and implementation of all GSFC products covered by the scope of the GSFC Quality Management System. IIR's are used to evaluate the status of a project at the mission system-level and also at the spacecraft and instrument level. Engineering Peer Reviews, rather than IIR's, are used to evaluate the status of a project at the subsystem level and the results flow up to the IIR's. However, a deliverable spacecraft subsystem is subject to the IIR process. The IIR process does not apply to products at a level lower than a deliverable subsystem or instrument, sounding rockets and associated payloads, balloons and associated payloads, deliverable aircraft instruments or payloads, and Shuttle Small Payloads (Hitchhiker, Space Experiment Module, Get-Away-Specials).

The Agency Program Management Council (PMC) has delegated governance of nearly all GSFC projects to the GSFC PMC. The IIR process applies directly to these projects. The IIR process is also applicable, with modifications as noted, to projects that report to the Agency PMC (i.e., have not been delegated to GSFC).