The technical and management efforts of directing and
controlling the safety and mission assurance elements of
the project. This element includes design, development,
safety assessment, review, and verification of practices
and procedures and mission success criteria intended to
assure that the delivered aero-craft/spacecraft, ground
systems, mission operations, and payload(s) meet
performance requirements and function for their intended
lifetimes. This element excludes mission and product
assurance efforts at partners/ subcontractors other than a
review/oversight function, and the direct costs of
environmental testing. Product assurance efforts should be
distributed to each separate product/deliverable WBS
element.