Contact several contract programs within your organization. Interview the Technical Director, Project Engineer, or Lead SEs to answer the following questions:

(a) How were system requirements analyzed during the proposal effort that culminated in the development of the program’s System Performance Specification (SPS)?

(b) What deficiencies—missing, misplaced, conflicting, or duplicated requirements—did personnel find in the Acquirer’s System Requirements Document (SRD) provided with the solicitation? How were the deficiencies resolved?

(c) Were there any requirements issues and or requirements that required clarification? Did the System Developer or the Acquirer write these requirements? How were these resolved? Did the Acquirer refuse to make changes to the SPS to resolve or clarify issues? How did the program deal with the refusal to modify SPS requirements?