[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Page 7287]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-03399]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Office of Commercial Space Transportation: Millennium Engineering
and Integration Company Safety Approval Performance Criteria
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This is notification of criteria used to evaluate the
Millennium Engineering and Integration Company (MEI) safety approval
application. This Notice publishes the criteria that the FAA used to
evaluate the safety approval application pursuant to FAA regulations.
Background: MEI applied for, and received, a safety approval for
its ability to provide its Flight Analyst Workstation (FAWS) as a
component of the process to build flight rules, generate the Mission
Data Load (MDL), and verify the MDL prior to loading it onto a launch
vehicle's autonomous flight safety unit (AFSU).
The FAA issued MEI the safety approval, subject to the provisions
of Title 51 U.S.C. Subtitle V, ch. 509, and the orders, rules and
regulations issued under it. This Notice is published pursuant to Title
14 Code of Federal Regulations (14 CFR 414.35).
MEI may offer FAWS as a component of the process of generating and
verifying MDLs for AFSUs to a prospective launch or reentry operator to
meet the applicable requirements of 14 CFR 417.123(b), (d), and (e),
and Sec. 417.309(h).
Criteria Used To Evaluate Safety Approval Application: The
performance criteria used to evaluate the FAWS as a component of the
process of generating and verifying MDLs for AFSUs included the
following FAA regulations, NASA standard, U.S. Air Force manuals or
instructions, industry standard, and MEI-developed standards:
14 CFR 417.309(h) Flight Safety System Analysis--Software and
Firmware and 14 CFR 417.123 Computing Systems and Software.
NASA-STD-8719.13C Software Safety Standard.
AFSPCMAN 91-710 (v1) Range Safety Policies and Procedures, AFSPCMAN
91-710 (v2) Range Safety User Requirements Manual, Volume 2--Flight
Safety Requirements, AFSPCMAN 91-712 Launch Safety Software and
Computing System Requirements, and 45 SWI 91-701 45th Space Wing Launch
Safety Software Management.
CMMI-Dev (ML3) Capability Maturity Model Integration.
MEI-000071 Configuration Management, MEI-000120 Requirements
Development and Management, MEI-000124 Technical Solution, MEI-000149
Agile Software Development Process, and MEI-000125 Verification and
Validation.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions about the performance
criteria, you may contact Randal Maday, Licensing and Evaluation
Division (AST-200), FAA Office of Commercial Space Transportation
(AST), 800 Independence Avenue SW, Room 331, Washington, DC 20591,
telephone (202) 267-8652; Email [email protected].
Issued in Washington, DC, on 9 February 2018.
George C. Nield,
Associate Administrator for Commercial Space Transportation.
[FR Doc. 2018-03399 Filed 2-16-18; 8:45 am]
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