군수품 품질보증 정책 발전방안에 관한 연구 :기능

Abstract

Quality Assurance(QA) activities of the defense materiel were initiated, when defense acquisition programs had been launched, for the quality verification of weapons and equipments developed by Agency for Defense Development(ADD) established in the early nineteen seventies. QA methods in the initial era were focused on the inspections and tests of military products manufactured. After the eighties, the acquired products were various and the quantities were increased, therefore the functions of QA were strengthened. As the defense equipments have been increasingly developed through our own research and development, and became more complex and precisive after the nineties, QA policies have been changed accordingly to cope with them. By the way, as the defense acquisition systems were reformed as a whole in 2005, the new defense acquisition policies were instituted. The concept of reformation was to enhance transparency, efficiency, and expertise of defense acquisition programs, to acquire and deploy the superior performance equipments earlier with cheaper costs. Finally, the Act on Defense Acquisition Program was enacted, and the Defense Acquisition Program Administration(DAPA) was inaugurated on the first day of January 2006. In accordance with it, focused on the functions, organizations and policies of the defense quality assurance, a study on the policy development direction of the government QA has been conducted to make the defense capability stronger, and to realize the quality of defense materiel with international competitiveness to the level of the advanced nations, reflecting the future direction of war capabilities development, the prospect of defense science and technology development and defense acquisition policies. As a result of this study, the followings were achieved. 1. The current QA activities of the defense materiel oriented on the mass production phase shall be transformed into the life cycle through all the acquisition phases. To implement it, the functions of Defense Agency for Technology and Quality(DTaQ) have to be expanded to the QA of all the systems including software for the developed products in the phase of R&D phase, overhauled items and long-term stockpiled materiel in the phase of deployment. 2. The QA authority has to be operated independently from the functions of R&D, contract pricing, program management, and technology planning. To perform the objective QA function in all phases, the position and the authority has to be granted. Also, independence of QA organization shall be ensured to meet well with the importance of responsibility of the QA. 3. To meet the present situation of developing the state-of-the-art weapon systems, studies and improvements of QA institution and techniques like quality management system evaluation of contractors, QPL(Qualified Products List), ASRP(Ammunition Stockpile Reliability Program), and risk management method have to be continuously accomplished.