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"abstract": "This document presents the TIPSTER Text Phase II Configuration Management (CM) Plan for identifying, controlling, and auditing the TIPSTER Architecture status and configuration definition. 1.1 Configuration Management Goals The CM process will support the following TIPSTER goals: use of API's, modular substitution, and conformance to applicable standards. The CM process will document the conformance of each TIPSTER application to the Architecture Design Document and with any applicable APIs. The most important affect of the CM process will be to promote modular substitution, software re-use, and reduced risk of project planning. This will allow for the orderly upgrading of installed systems as technology improves in the future. It will also facilitate the sharing of developed software between Government agencies and offices.",
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"text": "This document presents the TIPSTER Text Phase II Configuration Management (CM) Plan for identifying, controlling, and auditing the TIPSTER Architecture status and configuration definition. 1.1 Configuration Management Goals The CM process will support the following TIPSTER goals: use of API's, modular substitution, and conformance to applicable standards. The CM process will document the conformance of each TIPSTER application to the Architecture Design Document and with any applicable APIs. The most important affect of the CM process will be to promote modular substitution, software re-use, and reduced risk of project planning. This will allow for the orderly upgrading of installed systems as technology improves in the future. It will also facilitate the sharing of developed software between Government agencies and offices.",
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"text": "The CM review process, described in detail below, will result in a document which details the ways in which an application or vendor product conforms to the Architecture Design Document and is in agreement with the TIPSTER Architecture design. This document is a TIPSTER Application Conformance Assessment Document (TACAD).",
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"text": "The TIPSTER Application development complies with the TIPSTER CM process, the details which are contained in this document. In short, the TIPSTER Application must undergo a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) and a Final Operating Capability (FOC) review. At these reviews, any discrepancy or deviation from the TIPSTER Architecture must be documented and justified/explained.",
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"text": "Any new code or capabilities for the TIPSTER Application must be developed in accordance with the TIPSTER Architecture. Failure to do so will be documented and justified in the TACAD.",
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"text": "\u2022 To the extent possible and in the Government's best interest, existing code and capability to be incorporated into the TIPSTER Application will be re-engineered in accordance with the TIPSTER Architecture. Failure to do so will be documented and justified in the TACAD.",
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"text": "\u2022 If the vendor's product is used in a TIPSTER Application, the criteria stated above in \"For TIPSTER Application development\" will apply.",
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"text": "\u2022 A vendor's product may be determined to be TIPSTER compliant with the use of a TACAD independent of actually being part of a TIPSTER Application. To support the development of this TACAD, the vendor will demonstrate, by inspection, module-by-module compliance with the TIPSTER Architecture.",
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"text": "On the basis of the TACAD, the Configurations Control Board (CCB) will determine that a TIPSTER Application is conformant or non-conformant, if it exhibits sufficient overlap with the Architecture Design Document.",
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"text": "The extent of TIPSTER Conformance will be determined on a \"per module\" basis and documented in the TACAD. As a result of the TIPSTER Application reviews (described in section 1.2, below) a summary matrix will be available as shown in Appendix A, Figure A -I, below.",
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"text": "The TIPSTER CM process imposes two control gates, PDR and FOC, on the TIPSTER Application development lifecycle, as shown in Figure 1 -2. In preparation for these control gates, it is expected that the developing contractor and the SE/CM will work together to prepare the documentation and to identify any discrepancies between the Architecture Design and the TIPSTER Application's design. This cooperation will be in the form of an Engineering Review Board (ERB).",
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"text": "At the PDR control gate, the following TIPSTER Application documentation is expected to be put in the TACAD and under TIPSTER CM control:",
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