A Statement of Task

Define the work that the supplier is to carry out in a statement of work or list of tasks. 

The basis for your program plan should be your team s assessment of the current PSM status (Figure 4-11), which will have yielded a list of deficiencies compared with the required PSM elements. These gaps must now be translated into statements of required tasks, which in turn suggest work products for inclusion in your implementation plan. For example, your assessment shows that the process knowledge and documentation management system needs improvement. To address this gap you need to plan a series of tasks. 

The present report is the committee s response to the third and final task in its overall statement of task. The report will be produced in time to contribute to the record of decision (ROD) by the Office of the Secretary of Defense on the selection of a technology for the Blue Grass site.3... 

The statement of task for a study of the modified baseline process was agreed upon by the NRC and the PMCD ... 

The full statement of task for this study is given in Appendix A. 

The current study is modeled after an NRC study that resulted in the 1990 report Fuels to Drive Our Future (NRC, 1990), which analyzed the status of technologies for producing liquid transportation fuels from domestic resources, such as biomass, coal, natural gas, oil shale, and tar sands. That study evaluated the cost of producing various liquid transportation fuels from these resources on a consistent basis, estimated opportunities for reducing costs, and identified R D needs to improve technologies and reduce costs. Fuels to Drive Our Future did not include the production and use of hydrogen, which is the subject of this committee s report. The statement of task for the committee was as follows ... 

Item 5 of the statement of task asks for a letter report on the committee s interim findings. The balance of the statement of task (see Appendix B) will be addressed in the committee s final report in late 2003. 

For most of the items on the CWWG list, no specific documentation or details were included beyond one to a few sentences. The committee concluded that the majority of the items were not germane to its statement of task. Those that were relevant were typical of the ones from the PMCD list that the committee studied intensively. In conclusion, the committee determined that evaluation of additional items on the CWWG list would not materially influence the findings and recommendations of this report. 

Accordingly, on March 16, 2001, the PMNSCM requested that the National Research Council undertake such a review. The statement of task is as follows ... 

The PMACWA requested that the NRC conduct and publish an independent evaluation of the alternative technology packages representing a total system solution by September 1, 1999, a month before the Army s report to Congress was due. The NRC and DOD reached agreement on the Statement of Task in March 1997, and the study was officially begun on May 27, 1997. The committee decided to... 

This report is the ACW II Committee s response to Task 2 of its Statement of Task (i.e., review and evaluate EDS documentation and testing developed for the destruction of chmical weapons at the Pueblo Chemical Depot). On the basis of the final schedule for the Pueblo EDS testing by the technology providers, the original delivery date of March 2001 was extended to July 15, 2001. This report will be produced in time to contribute to the Record of Decision (ROD) by the Office of the Secretary of Defense on a technology selection for the Pueblo site, which is scheduled for August 13, 2001, following satisfaction of NEPA requiranents. 

In the statement of task for this report, the committee was asked to determine if any of the technology packages chosen for demonstrations have reached a technology readiness level sufficient to proceed with implementation of a pilot-scale. The ACW II committee s evaluations of the maturity of each unit operation are described in this report. Table 5-1 summarizes the committee s assessments. How-... 

Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) (Aimett, J., Duncan 1967) is a process for developing a description of tasks in terms of operations (things people do to reach goals) and plans (statements of conditions that tell when each operation is to be carried out). HTA has been mostly used for the design of training. Its merit is mainly the clear representation technique. HTA is cinrently supported by a software www.taskarchitect.com... 

Step 4, plan and implement solution, is a statement of how the team intends to solve the problem. It is important that the team understand the limits of its authority, so that it will develop local solutions that are very focused on the root cause(s) identified in Step 3. They are not authorized to change the entire system. The team needs to analyze the problem and identify different alternatives to solving the problem. It is valuable for the team to assign the tasks of implementing the solution using the 4 Ws and 1 H who, when, where, what, and how. 

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