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PURPOSE

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

The Goddard Integrated Independent Review (IIR) process fulfills the NASA imposed requirement within NPR 7120.5 for both Independent Reviews and Critical Milestone Reviews of projects.

APPLICABILITY

Except as noted below, the IIR process applies to all GSFC products within the scope of the GSFC Quality Management System. Typically, IIRs are used to evaluate the status of a flight project at the mission system level and at the major system element level (i.e., spacecraft, instrument(s), and ground system). IIRs are supported by project-conducted Engineering Peer Reviews (EPRs) which assess the status of subsystem or lower assembly levels. The results of the EPRs constitute a key input to the IIRs.

When the GSFC end-item product consists of a deliverable sub-system or instrument, this IIR process does apply. In that case, the review sequence described within this document may be modified as appropriate, subject to approval in the IIR Plan.

The IIR process does not apply to non-flight products, to sounding rockets and associated payloads, to balloons and associated payloads, or to deliverable aircraft instruments and payloads.