National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
NASA & the Missile Defense
Agency (MDA) Recognition of
Industry Controlled Other
(ICOP) Party Audits
Buck Crenshaw, Program Element Manager,
NASA-Wide Assurance Initiatives,
Assurance Technology Program Office
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
January 24, 2007
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
What is ICOP?
The process that provides
oversight on registration
bodies and accreditation
bodies.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory
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NASA ICOP Recognition
• NASA Procedural Requirement (NPR)
8735.2A, Management of Government
Quality Assurance Functions for NASA
Contracts (8-2-06) is the NASA
requirements document that allows NASA
centers to use third party
certification/registration bodies, or in
accordance with accreditation programs
approved by this NPR.
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Authorities ICOP
Recognition
• The Joint Audit Planning Committee (JAPC)
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), 1122-06, is the agreement that defines how to
use the ICOP process.
• This allows for approval of suppliers certified
to AS9100 in the OASIS database.
– Certified Suppliers may allow you to view audit
information by granting customers access to the
audit results in OASIS.
Safety and Mission
Assurance Audits, Reviews,
and Assessments
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• NPR 8705.6 dated, October 4, 2005, requires
all NASA centers and all NASA contractors to
be audited periodically to ensure compliance
to all NASA NPR’s and NPD’s as well as
compliance to all terms of issued contracts.
It also requires Safety and Facility Audits.
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Joint Audit Planning
Committee (JAPC)
• The JAPC is a joint Government – Industry
forum for the coordination and conduct of
supplier quality audits and management of
resultant data.
• The JAPC is a voluntary organization comprised
of representatives from NASA Program/Project
Offices, NASA Headquarters, NASA Centers,
NASA prime contractors, Defense Contract
Management Agency (DCMA), Missile Defense
Agency (MDA), CalTech JPL, and JHU-APL.
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Participating Organizations
ATK Launch Systems
Ball Aerospace and Technologies
Boeing Space Exploration
CalTech Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Northrop Grumman Space Technology
Orbital Sciences Corporation
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne
Raytheon Missile Systems
United Space Alliance
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California Institute of Technology
Joint Audit Planning
Committee (JAPC) Cont.
Objectives are:
• Sharing of supplier quality audit data
• Enhancing the capability to identify supplier risks and
tailor quality assurance actions
• Reducing costs by combining auditing resources
• Reporting Agency-wide quality metrics and trends
• Standardizing supplier auditing practices
• Sharing of best practices and lessons learned
• Identifying and facilitating the resolution of common
supplier quality issues, problems, and risks
• Eliminating duplicative audits and reducing supplier
costs and work interruptions related to customer audits
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Confidentiality &
Additional Controls
• JAPC audit data shall not be posted for review
by other JAPC member organizations until…
– the supplier affirmatively states that the
data contained in the audit findings is
factually accurate…
– findings do not contain trade secrets,
confidential commercial or financial data, or
export controlled information.
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Improved Scheduling
Efficiency
• Use the results of private sector or other
governmental conformity assessment activities
to schedule audits more effectively (allowing
agencies to reduce the number and extent of
audits conducted at companies which are
performing in accordance with contract
specifications and which are under review by
a third party or another agency and to
concentrate agency audit efforts on companies
which have shown problems in conforming to
contract specifications)
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Use of ICOP
• Lead organizations shall provide to the JAPC Audit
Coordinator a schedule of quality system audits and
special process audits planned for the upcoming year,
including audits scheduled to be performed by
authorized third parties ….
• Lead organizations may utilize third party auditing
sources such as AS9100 Certification/Registration
Bodies (CRB) accredited in accordance with AS9014
[AS9104] or Nadcap special process accreditation
provided in accordance with AS7003 to perform quality
system audits and/or special process audits in place of
directly performing an audit (i.e., second party audits).
Third party audits may be full quality system audits or
special process audits, or may be partial audits limited in
scope to specified audit attributes.
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Supplier Assessment
System (SAS)
• The NASA SAS shall include links to other
sources of supplier quality data such as
DCMA QLI, NAVSEA PDREP, OASIS,
Nadcap, and other federal agency
databases.
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Involvement
with RMC 103
• Involvement in RMC 103 rewrite team is
critical to ensure we can further define:
– The role, responsibilities and expectations of
Authorities, and
– How authorities relate to the RMC.
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Summary
• NASA and the MDA are planning to use
the ICOP process to augment and/or
substitute for each members organization
audit requirements for suppliers that meet
the criteria identified in the MOU.
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Web Sites
JPL General Info: www.jpl.nasa.gov
Supplier Outreach and Process Control Assurance (SOPCA)
http://quality.nasa.gov/outreach
NASA Joint Audit Planning Committee
https://secureworkgroups.grc.nasa.gov/japc
NASA Quality Leadership Forum
https://secureworkgroups.grc.nasa.gov/qlf