System Engineering Management Plan
Section 3.14 - Model Text

3.14 Continuous acquisition and life cycle support.

Continuous acquisition and life cycle support (CALS) is an acquirer/supplier strategy to enable more effective generation, exchange, management and the integration of digital technical information for system acquisition, design, manufacture, and support.
A major objective of CALS is to migrate from manual paper-intensive systems operations to an integrated acquisition and support process. This process examines and modifies design and engineering processes to integrate other disciplines, such as producibility, reliability, maintainability, and supportability into each phase of the system design and production process.
The goals for CALS implementation are attainment of increased levels of interfaced, or integrated functional capabilities, and specification of requirements for authorized acquirer access to technical data bases, or for delivery of technical data to the acquirer in digital form.
Configuration item documentation shall be provided in either hard copy data transfer, transfer of processable data files, interactive access to data through integrated technical information services, or a combination of both, as specified by a contract or order.

3.14.1 Data protection and integrity, data rights, and related issues.

3.14.1.1 Industry.

• Access to data will be limited to documenting products, procedures, and processes, for which the acquirer or suppliers do not posses the data rights. Procedures shall be developed to ensure that digital data delivered or accessed by, the acquirer are properly marked and that controls and safeguards in the digital environment are at least the level of protection provided by the paper based environment.
  

3.14.1.1 Acquirer.

• The acquirer shall address during acquisition planning and procedures what should be developed for effective management of classified sensitive, or limited rights data.
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