Risk factors with accompanied mitigation plan are identified in the table below. If any of these risk factors affect schedule and milestone completion, these impacts will be reported to the CURG and AG during quarterly calls and adjustments will be made to the PMP.
Risk Factors
Risk
Risk Category
Risk Probability
Risk Impact
Mitigation Plan
Schedule Slippage caused by unexpected/unintended software interactions between the various elements that make up the CWMS Software suite. CWMS is a framework that ties together several different modeling applications, allowing one model's results to be ingested as the next model's input. Maintaining clean API interfaces between the various models is paramount to maintaining schedules for this investment.
Schedule
Medium
Medium
Developer meetings are scheduled regularly to surface and address any issues that are identified as issues between the various models. When identified, developers are asked to address and correct changed API elements used to exchange data between models.
Success of the investment requires sufficient resources to address field issues in a timely fashion as well as to maintain the code base to current Army standards.
Project resources
Medium
Medium
The development team is constantly balancing their response to immediate issues identified by the field users as well as the ever changing standards imposed by changing technical requirements.
Reductions in Federal Budgets are ever reducing the ability for the agency to provide sufficient funds to provide adequate field support to users.
Life-cycle costs
Medium
Medium
Should support fall below baseline requirements in any one year, then reduced response time to field issues will result and changes needed to maintain technical standards will need to be carefully prioritized in the order of minimizing other system risks, e.g., to system security and function.
Schedule slippage caused by delays in contract awards. Currently HEC has a SATOC with one firm that has extensive knowledge of CWMS and HEC software code and the engineering background of how the code needs to be utilized. There is enough capacity for FY23. It is anticipated that there will be a new SATOC and also a MATOC that will provide the resourcing necessary for CWMS development. If for some reason a new SATOC and MATOC is not awarded this could affect development in future FY's as each contract will need to be sole sourced and this can add time for advertisement and evaluation of other companies and delay the CWMS schedule.
Schedule
Medium
Medium
Regularly meet with contracting office to track the status of the contracts. Work on developing a new IDIQ SATOC to support sole-source procurements and MATOC to engage other contractors. Alert CECI when potential for delay in schedule.
Uncertainty and evolving requirements regarding G6 provided services and IT related policies.