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Major Automated Information System critical change

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Any one of the following constitutes a Critical Change to a Major Automated Information System: 1) Cost growth of 25% or more compared to the initial baseline; 2) Schedule growth of one year of more compared to the baseline schedule; or failure to achieve a Full Deployment Decision (FDD) within 5 years of Milestone A, or if no Milestone A was conducted, 5 years after the preferred alternative was selected (excluding bid protest time); 3) Performance that undermines the ability of the system to perform the mission as originally intended (e.g. failure to meet a Key Performance Parameter (KPP)).