Welcome to the Acquisition and Technology Programs Task Force (ATP TF) website. This site was created to provide an information repository for ATP TF safety initiatives sponsored by the Defense Safety Oversight Council (DSOC).

The ATP TF is charged with investigating and recommending or implementing changes to policies, procedures, initiatives, education and training, and investments to ensure acquisition programs address safety throughout the program life cycle, including systems acquisition, operations and support, sustainment, demilitarization, and disposal. The ATP TF recognizes that its impact, through the systems acquisition process, will be in the relatively long-term reaching fruition, but that its effects will have long-term benefit. The ATP TF also recognizes that while its charter focuses on acquisition policies as they relate to safety, it must also account for how its changes impact on the closely interrelated environmental and occupational health disciplines.

The goals of the ATP TF are to:

• Ensure acquisition policies and procedures for all systems address safety requirements
• Review and modify, as necessary, relevant DoD standards with respect to safety
• Recommend ways to ensure acquisition program office decisions consider system hazards
• Recommend ways to ensure milestone decision reviews and interim progress reviews address safety.

The bottom line is to establish a dialogue between the System Safety and Systems Engineering communities.

Nicholas M. Torelli, Chair
Acquisition and Technology Programs Task Force (ATP TF)