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When working on a project that involves integrating commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) and existing non-COTS systems and equipment, how do you assess possible risks before you begin acquisition planning? One quick way of looking at a wide variety of risks that have been encountered in similar projects is by using MITRE's Risk Assessment and Management Program (RAMP), an intranet repository of project risks, risk mitigation strategies, and lessons learned.

Every year MITRE captures risk-related experiences from dozens of ongoing projects and adds them to the database. The objective of RAMP is to offer project managers a knowledge management tool to help identify and quantify specific areas of risk on analogous projects, review risk mitigation options and actions, and assess how effective such actions might be at reducing cost, schedule, and performance risks on their projects. RAMP currently offers information on more than 400 project-specific risks, spanning more than 180 projects from two of MITRE's Federally Funded Research and Development Centers—the Department of Defense C3I and the Center for Advanced Aviation System Development. Through the distillation of information from multiple sources, RAMP allows MITRE staff to more effectively and efficiently serve present and future sponsors.

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