Harry Kahn Associates, Inc. is proud to celebrate 80 years as a highly experienced American-Owned Small Business developing military and commercial technical publications. Founded in September of 1943 as Gassner Associates, the company has evolved from aircraft engineering to fulfill a need for specialized expertise on complex MIL-SPEC logistics supportability requirements. At Harry Kahn Associates, …
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Program cost efficiencies can be gained by careful process improvement analysis. Normally this analysis reveals that outsourcing of specific aspects of operations to organizations that specialize in those services or products can provided substantial benefit. These benefits accrue not only in cost reduction, but also in quality of product and timeliness of delivery. Technical documentation …
I had a very interesting conversation the other day with a customer who wants to expand their business into contracting with the Government, and thought you might find it interesting as well. They stated that “We’ve tried repeatedly to break into Government contracting (in this case DoD related) but without success”. I hear this all …
Is my current documentation sufficient for my end users? How can I document and control “versioning” when I sell highly customizable equipment? How do I provide manuals that are compliant with my customer’s specification? How do I standardize my vendor manuals to a generally accepted content and format spec? Is there too much “stuff” in …
If you are an OEM selling to the Federal Government and especially if you are selling to the DOD you know that developing and delivering acceptable technical documentation can be a challenge. Specifications that govern the content, arrangement and electronic format of operations, maintenance and other manuals as well as requirements for Logistical Product Data …
As the Department of Defense (DoD) increases its emphasis on purchasing COTS equipment their requirement for Mil-Spec supporting documentation is also increasing. When selling equipment to the DoD, manufacturers are faced with the daunting task of ensuring that their product documentation complies with military maintenance philosophies, provisioning and specifications. Often, OEM documentation does not provide …
