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Department of Defense (DoD) weapon systems programs develop some of the most technically advanced and capable systems in the world. Unfortunately, some programs have experienced significant cost and schedule growth, poor technical planning, and inadequate risk management. Several government and independent studies point to early systems engineering and technical planning as key to establishing executable programs and controlling costs later in the acquisition life cycle (U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), 2009; National Research Council (NRC), 2008) These studies show that scoping and requirements decisions made prior to Milestone A can have tremendous impact on downstream development success and production costs. Yet, despite broad recognition that early technical planning is a smart investment, DoD Components reported challenges to obtaining sufficient resources to accomplish these early systems engineering activities. Instead, the focus during the Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA) phase tends to be on the formal Analysis of Alternatives (AoA) and selection of a preferred materiel solution. As such, resources allocated to performed post-AoA systems engineering and technical planning are often inadequate to prepare for the next program milestone and subsequent phase of acquisition.