Quality Assurance & Risk Management Services, Inc.

• Quality Assurance System Design and Development

  Design and development of quality assurance programs in accordance with ISO 9001 or AS9100, customized to the client's specific line of business.

• Quality System Evaluations and Assessments

  Independent compliance audits, gap assessments, and data analysis to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities at client or supplier facilities.

• Corrective Action System Design, Development, and Implementation

  Development and implementation of efficient corrective action tracking and reporting systems.

• Quality Review of Design Requirements

  Collaboration with design teams to specify quality requirements and review engineering documentation, verifying that requirements are defined to ensure product quality and safety.

• Supply Chain Management Quality Assurance Programs

  Cost-effective supplier assurance programs covering procurement requirement reviews, approved supplier list development, supplier audits, product inspections, and supplier performance data analysis.

• Quality Engineering
• Software Assurance

• Enterprise Risk Management

  Agency-level ERM advisory covering policy development, executive briefings, workshop facilitation, and Continuous Risk Management (CRM) training for program personnel.

• Risk Management Plan Development

  Development of cost-effective risk management plans based on NASA procedural requirements, defining risk-informed decision-making processes tailored to program-specific success factors.

• Risk Management Process Development

  Design of integrated risk management processes for systematic identification and tracking of program risks against customer requirements.

• Risk Identification

  Systematic identification of technical and programmatic risks throughout the program life cycle, with consequence characterization grounded in accident investigations and system failure analyses.

• Risk Tracking and Reporting

  Comprehensive risk tracking and reporting providing program-level visibility into identified risks and their evolving status as programs mature.

• Risk Management Integration

  Integration of risk management into program decision-making at two levels: within the program manager's technical and programmatic processes, and across safety, reliability, and quality assurance inputs.

• Probabilistic Risk Assessments

  Development of Probabilistic Risk Assessments (PRA) for systems operating in low-probability, high-consequence environments such as human spaceflight, nuclear systems, and large commercial aircraft.

• System Safety Management

  Development of safety management plans and recommendations to identify, assess, mitigate, and continuously track mishap risks throughout a system's development, test, acquisition, use, and disposal.

• Preliminary Hazard Analysis

  Early identification of safety-critical system areas, initial hazard assessment, and determination of appropriate hazard controls and follow-on actions.

• Subsystem Hazard Analysis

  Verification of subsystem safety requirement compliance, identification of component failure mode hazards and critical human error inputs, and recommendations to eliminate or control associated risks.

• System Hazard Analysis

  System-level safety requirement verification and assessment of total system design risk, covering hardware, software, people, and procedures.

• Operating and Support Hazard Analysis

  Identification and evaluation of hazards introduced by operational and support activities, and assessment of procedures used to eliminate, control, or abate those hazards.

• Fault Tree Analysis

  Deductive analysis identifying combinations of lower-level events that could produce an undesired top-level system event; quantified to yield probability estimates when adequate data are available.

• Design Analysis

  Cost-effective application of reliability analysis techniques across the project life cycle, based on operating environments and design goals, to produce designs that are safe and meet performance requirements.

• Reliability Prediction

  Reliability block diagram and system model development to apportion requirements to subsystems and components, with improvement recommendations through redundancy, component selection, and screening.

• Failure Modes and Effects Analysis

  FMEA-based identification of system failure causes and effects during the design life cycle, with recommendations to eliminate or reduce risks associated with identified failures.

• Parts Selection and Application

  Technical assistance in aerospace part selection and reliability screening, including support for NASA parts selection processes for Space Lab and Space Station payloads.

Supports aerospace programs with systems engineering experience drawn from NASA science missions and DoD weapons-system development.

Aerospace program management support drawing on decades of NASA Civil Service and prime contractor experience, with a track record on programs ranging from $5M to over $1B in value.

• Quality Assurance and Risk Management Training

  Customized training in quality assurance and risk management disciplines, tailored to the client's commodity and practical requirements.

• Technical Conference Planning and Implementation

  End-to-end planning and execution for technical conferences and workshops, including experience developing NASA's first Risk Management Conference and Quality Forum 2000.

• Independent Assessments
• Specialized Technical Studies