NSV-9 Technology and Skills Forecast
The NSV-9 defines the underlying current and expected supporting technologies that have been targeted using standard forecasting methods. Expected supporting technologies are those that can be reasonably forecasted given the current state of technology and expected improvements.
New technologies should be tied to specific time periods, which can correlate with the time periods used in NSV-8 milestones.
NSV-9 provides a summary of emerging technologies that impact the architecture and its existing planned systems. The focus should be on the supporting technologies that may most affect the capabilities of the architecture or its systems.
The NSV-9 Report Template
The NSV-9 report template shows the impact on technology of system evolution.
• The first parameter indicates the architecture to be analyzed.
• The second parameter, Master Plan Subset, which is optional, indicates the master plans to be analyzed. Groups of master plans are considered in the report to enable plan comparisons. If no master plan is set, all the master plans of the architecture are taken into account and the collected master plans are compared individually.
The NSV-9 Technology Forecast Chapter
This chapter gives a graphical representation of the impact of system evolution on the technology proposed in different master plans. A Gantt chart is displayed for each master plan.