TechAmerica.org Engineering & Technical Programs

Engineering & Technical Programs

Extend your influence by helping develop industry standards for many management disciplines. These include: systems engineering, software life cycle processes, and configuration management, among others, which influence the future direction of our industry.

Engineering & Technical Management

TechAmerica is an ANSI-accredited Standards Development Organization and maintains an active technical and standards development program to provide industry with proven solutions to business process challenges. Configuration Management, Systems Engineering, Systems Safety, Reliability, Logistics, and Earned Value Management are among the key processes we are working. These represent areas in which the association has become recognized nationally and internationally for leadership and expertise. The Engineering & Technical Program includes the following committees:

Systems, Standards & Technology Council (SSTC)

The SSTC is TechAmerica’s management component and the technical advisory group to the TechAmerica Board of Directors. It is a forum for discussion of technical management matters and prepares industry positions on proposed legislation, studies, regulations, standards, and related documents. The Council oversees the activities of its specialized engineering (G-Panel) committees. Membership includes senior engineering, information technology, and operations management representatives.

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Avionics Process Management Committee, APMC – This committee works to develop process management standards for systems and equipment used in the field of avionics (Avionics includes electronics used in commercial, civil and military aerospace applications) and to act as the US Technical Advisory Group for International Electrotechnical Committee TC107, Process Management for Avionics.

Compact Model Council, CMC – This Council was formed for the purpose of promoting standardization in the use and implementation of Compact models. It seeks to promote the international, nonexclusive, standardization of compact model formulations and the model interfaces. Its vision is to have standardized compact models for all major technologies so that customer communication and efficiency can be enhanced, as well as standard interfaces so that compact models for the latest technologies can be tested and implemented easier and faster, allowing leading edge design development cycles to shorten.

Enterprise Information Management and Interoperability Committee, EIMI – This Committee seeks to address the opportunities created by advances in information technology to enhance the capability of the TechAmerica companies and our Government associates to productively use data and information as the effective basis for decisions and actions. The focus of the committee is to:  develop, contribute to, promote, and institutionalize data, information management, and associated interoperability standards ;  Influence the information interoperability landscape, providing recommendations and guidelines to address approaches to interoperability;  Facilitate communication and collaboration on standardization policy, technologies, governance, and path of evolution; and  represent member interests in the development, and application of cutting edge technology, process, and practices to support and improve the constituent elements of Information Management.

Component Parts Committee, G-11 – This Committee recommends solutions to technical problems in the application, standardization and reliability of parts, except for active solid state devices. This is implemented by evaluation and preparation of proposed advancements in specifications, standards and other documents; both government and industry, to assure that parts are suitable for their intended applications and for procurement.

Solid State Devices Committee, G-12 – This Committee develops solutions to technical problems in the application, standardization, and reliability of solid state devices. This is implemented by evaluation and preparation of recommendations for specifications, standards, and other documents, both government and industry, to assure that solid state devices are suitable for their intended purposes.

Configuration Management Committee, G-33 – This Committee prepares positions on government policies, practices, specifications, and standards dealing with technical data, drawing practices, and configuration management practices. It promotes understanding of configuration management principles, and develops standards. The committee provides innovative solutions and educational services through workshops and related publications.

Reliability Committee, G41–The committee develops design for reliability technical, program criteria and methodology for systems design, development, and manufacturing of a product as part of the systems engineering process at all phases of the product’s life cycle. Provide design for reliability guidance to individuals and companies by developing, documenting and maintaining standards and handbooks coalescing industry and government best practices.

Human Systems Integration Committee, G-45 – The Human Systems Integration (HSI) Committee focuses on processes and requirements to assure satisfactory human-system integration, including human factors Engineering (HFE); manpower, personnel and training (MPT); environment, safety and occupational health (ESOH); personnel survivability and habitability.  The primary focus areas of the G-45 HSI committee are: defining, assessing and optimizing human-system interfaces; maximizing human and human-system performance and; minimizing personnel-driven customer ownership costs.  Important functions of the G-45 committee include:  evaluating new and revised Government documents; HSI gap analysis (current versus required capabilities); and advising senior TechAmerica and Department of Defense representatives about current and emerging HSI issues, problems and opportunities.

Electromagnetic Compatibility Committee (EMI/EMC), G-46 – The G46 committee deals with the system-oriented discipline that ensures electromagnetic compatibility in electronics design. The Committee develops technical criteria and procedures to guide the design engineer. Its work also includes spectrum management and conservation, secure communications, and electromagnetic emission, susceptibility, control and characterization.

Systems Engineering Committee, G-47 – This Committee serves as an industry focal point for systems engineering by developing and maintaining standards, coalescing industry positions, preparing and coordinating positions on government policies & practices, and promoting sharing of best practices on the engineering of systems.

System Safety Committee, G-48 – This Committee develops technical and program criteria, standards, procedures, and methodology for the application of system safety engineering at all phases of the life cycle of a system or equipment. It documents and disseminates standard analytical techniques for enhancing system safety and conducting industry surveys for the purpose of improving techniques for testing, collecting, and distributing historical operational system safety data.

Life Cycle Logistics Supportability Committee, LCLS – This Committee serves as an industry focal point for life cycle logistics and supportability through the application of logistic support analysis principles.  The committee develops and maintains standards, coalesces industry positions, prepares and coordinates positions on government policies and practices.  The committee also promotes sharing of best practices on logistics and supportability of products and systems.

I/O Buffer Information Specification, IBIS – IBIS is a standard for electronic behavioral specifications of integrated circuit input/output analog characteristics. In order to enable an industry standard method to electronically transport IBIS modeling data between silicon vendors, simulation software vendors, and end customers, this template is proposed. The intention of this template is to specify a consistent format that can be parsed by software, allowing simulation vendors to derive models compatible with their own products. This Committee meets every three weeks on IBIS technical development, IBIS utilities development, IBIS parser/checker development, and for exchanging general information on good modeling practices and for dealing with all issues related to IBIS. IBIS Committee Task Groups exist to address Quality issues, Cookbook creation, independent Model Review and Advanced Technology Modeling techniques.  The IBIS Open Forum also holds several IBIS Summit meetings worldwide throughout the year for face-to-face discussions and technical presentations

TechAmerica Standards Workspace

This collaboration area provides all of the tools needed to facilitate standards development.

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Contact Information

For additional information on TechAmerica’s SSTC, please contact Chris Denham, Vice President, Standards & Technology, at 703.907.7567; or or Phyllis Call at 703. 284.5315.

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