SCOPE: (Schedule, cost, performance) planning and control system

This paper describes a system for internal organization, schedule, and cost control of complex research and development programs with automatic features for generating customer-required external reports and summaries. The system is in operation in all of the Autonetics engineering departments. The system includes automatic data evaluation features such as earned value and percent physical completion computations, performance indexes, projections to completion, etc. The data processing techniques used provide exceptionally low cost methods in terms of data output, updating manhours, and computation time.