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Aerospace & Defense
COBOLpro documents program, MRO, parts, quality, configuration, contract, traceability, and compliance workflows for aerospace and defense.
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Legacy estate
Systems and data surfaces to inspect
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Workflows
Business workflows grouped by capability
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Risks
Business impacts with control focus
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Deliverables
COBOLpro assessment artifacts
Executive summary
Aerospace, defense, and MRO estates combine long product lifecycles, regulated manufacturing, contract obligations, quality evidence, serial and configuration control, supplier exchange, and export-sensitive reporting. Legacy ERP behavior often remains essential to auditability.
COBOLpro builds a controlled domain brief that connects source code to program, maintenance, parts, quality, contract, finance, and compliance outcomes.
Legacy systems in scope
The source estate to turn into an operating map.
Each row is structured for executive review: where the COBOL behavior sits, what it touches, and what the documentation must prove.
Program and contract controls
Legacy estate
Program planning, procurement, production, earned value, contract billing, government reporting, and finance systems
Documentation focus
Contract rules, billing, cost, milestone, closeout, and government reporting dependencies
MRO, parts, and configuration
Legacy estate
MRO, work orders, parts, serial, lot, configuration, maintenance history, repair, and asset systems
Documentation focus
Traceability, serial control, maintenance evidence, repair history, and configuration management
Quality and compliance
Legacy estate
Quality, nonconformance, inspection, supplier, engineering, export-control, customer, and audit reporting feeds
Documentation focus
Quality evidence, inspection rules, supplier exchange, engineering handoffs, and audit readiness
Operational workflows
Business capabilities, not raw program lists.
COBOLpro groups source behavior around the operating workflows buyers need to preserve, explain, or replace.
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Program and production operations
- Program planning, procurement, production, inspection, and closeout
- Contract billing, earned value, supplier collaboration, and finance
- Government, customer, and compliance reporting
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MRO and configuration operations
- MRO work orders, repair history, maintenance planning, and customer delivery
- Parts traceability, serial control, lot control, and configuration management
- Engineering, supplier, and asset availability handoffs
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Quality and audit evidence
- Inspection, nonconformance, quality reporting, and corrective actions
- Export-control, compliance evidence, and long-retention records
- Audit response and traceability reporting
Risk and control priorities
Where legacy ambiguity becomes business exposure.
The assessment narrows risk to business impact and source-backed control evidence instead of treating documentation as a generic code inventory.
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Audit and traceability
Business impact
Parts, serial, configuration, quality, and maintenance behavior must remain defensible for audits and customer obligations.
Control focus
Trace controlled data across programs, files, reports, supplier feeds, and source modules.
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Long lifecycle dependency
Business impact
Historical maintenance and quality behavior may matter across decades of product and program life.
Control focus
Preserve repair history, inspection decisions, configuration states, and contract evidence in durable artifacts.
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Contract and export-control exposure
Business impact
Legacy customizations can encode contract terms, billing logic, reporting requirements, and export-sensitive controls.
Control focus
Build source-cited catalogs for contract, billing, quality, export-control, and reporting logic.
COBOLpro assessment output
Concrete artifacts for continuity decisions.
Outputs are written for shared use across business, audit, architecture, application, data, and delivery teams.
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Program and MRO dependency map
Program, MRO, parts, quality, contract, supplier, engineering, finance, and reporting dependencies.
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Traceability rule catalog
Rules for serial, lot, configuration, inspection, billing, compliance, maintenance, and exceptions.
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Audit evidence package
Source-backed artifacts for quality, contract, export-control, maintenance, customer, and government audits.
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Documentation sequencing plan
Evidence for ERP, MRO, quality, supplier, engineering, finance, and reporting documentation decisions.
Domain assessment