The RASSP Digest

Lockheed Sanders Beta Site Program

Ron Ireland
Motorola

The Lockheed Sanders Beta Site Program is an integral and critical part of the overall RASSP program. This part of the program is where real users outside of the Lockheed Sanders Team deploy the Lockheed Sanders RASSP Product within their business. This part of the program is where we learn how well we really did in addressing the RASSP Program objectives.

The Lockheed Sanders philosophy is to involve the beta site projects early in the life of the program. Candidate projects are kept informed of the program direction and status. In turn, these candidate sites provide us with their input on our direction. Through this close working relationship, the beta sites will be provided first access to RASSP Products including:

Process improvement recommendations
Design environment recommendations needed to support process improvement
Integration software produced by the Lockheed Sanders RASSP team
Special purpose software produced by the Lockheed Sanders RASSP team.

As the RASSP products are deployed at the beta sites the Lockheed Sanders Beta Site Support Team will provide high levels of support and will continue to work with the user team members throughout the life of their project.

Over the next year the beta site program will provide the Lockheed Sanders RASSP Products to three different sets of users:

Internal (to the Lockheed Sanders Team) projects - initiated in October 1994
Selected government labs - initiated in January 1995
First external projects initiated in 3Q95

: The status of the beta site program can be described in terms of each of these sets of users:

Internal beta sites have been identified; the definition of the packages that will go to these projects are being developed
We are providing information to government lab projects who are interested in being external beta sites
Dialog with several companies who have potential beta site projects is on-going

For additional information on the Lockheed Sanders Beta Site Program or to learn how you might become a beta site contact:

Ron Ireland, Manager
Lockheed Sanders RASSP Beta Site Program
Motorola-GSTG
8201 E. McDowell Road
Scottsdale, AZ 85252
Phone: 602-441-2348
email:Ron_Ireland@rassp.mot.com

The RASSP Digest - Vol. 1, No. 1, 4th Qtr. 1994

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