6  Other Considerations  6.1  Baseline Change Management  6.2  Program Safety Requirements for Decommissioning and Disposal  For any acquisition program under its jurisdiction, the Joint Resources Council (JRC) approves  and baselines all Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) program documents required by the  FAA Acquisition Management System (AMS) (i.e., Program Requirements Documents (PRDs),  acquisition program baselines, Business Cases, and Implementation Strategy and Planning  Documents). The JRC may also make acquisition program baseline change decisions that alter  program performance or cost and schedule baselines during the Solution Implementation phase  for investment programs. From a Safety Risk Management (SRM) viewpoint, if a baseline  change is being proposed, the Program Office (PO) may need to review and update the  Program Safety Plan (PSP) and any safety analyses/assessments that have already been  completed to ensure that the new baseline does not impact the risk mitigation strategies already  identified. If the proposed change does impact risk mitigation strategies, then the predicted  residual risk identified in the completed safety analyses/assessments may not be achievable,  and the new predicted residual risk without these mitigations implemented may be  unacceptable.  A baseline change could affect already identified risk mitigation strategies in the following ways:  Disposal of an asset or program is part of the In-Service Management phase of the AMS  process and, as such, requires SRM as part of its lifecycle management 1 . In addition,  decommissioning a service provided by a program asset targeted for disposal could occur much  earlier than the actual disposal and must also meet all SRM requirements. Programs or assets  facing disposal often have their SRM requirements met by the program or asset replacing them,  but this is not always the case. 2 Prior to the decommissioning and/or disposal of an asset or  program, the associated PO should contact the Safety and Technical Training (AJI) Safety Case  Lead (SCL) to convene a Safety Strategy Meeting (SSM) to determine whether SRM analysis  and subsequent SRM documents are required. If so, an SRM panel will perform an analysis,  similar to a Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), to identify safety hazards associated with the  disposal activity. This may include deactivation, deactivation and replacement of the system, or  similar considerations.  1. Decommissioning and disposal must also follow the media sanitization requirements in FAA Order 1370.121,  FAA Information Security and Privacy Program & Policy . 2. The following can be assumed: (1) Once a National Airspace System (NAS) asset is removed from service, it is no longer part of the flight-day decision-making process. (2) Even if a NAS asset remains in an operational area in a deactivated state, removal and disposal may occur without regard to aircraft movement. However, SRM is a data-driven process (i.e., a process not driven by opinion) that still must be conducted. 6_SRMGSA_202003  Originally published March 2020  Uncontrolled copy when downloaded  37 • If the performance is being re-baselined, the new requirements may be sufficiently different from the assumptions made. Analyses conducted as part of previous safety assessments may no longer apply, invalidating previously identified risk mitigation strategies. • If the schedule is being re-baselined, the proposed new schedule may impact the temporal aspects of the identified risk mitigation strategy. In other words, the planned mitigations may not be in place as expected and required. • If the program cost is being re-baselined, the proposed new budget may not include funding to implement the mitigations previously identified.