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Defense to conduct a technical risk assessment.\u00a0 The assement foundthe design prerequisites were insufficient.\nIn March 2013, Air Force HQ looked into root causes of the ECSS failure.\u00a0 It took approximately 75 days to review over 588,000 pieces of data which covered approximately 10 years and with an initial pool of more than 1,000 personal interviews.\nSix root causes were identified:\n1) Understanding your data: Data was being addressed \"as they wanted to address it\" with assumptions of about data they \"already have\" by doing Legacy system deconstruction at the same time as blueprinting to build a new solution -instead of understanding ALL of the data.\n2) Understanding \"AS-IS\" and \"TO-BE\" architectures: The ECSS lacked a detailed knowledge of the \"As-Is\" which resulted in an incomplete assessment of the \"To-Be\" thus trying to replace alot of unknown.\n3) A transition plan: Without detailed knowledge of your legacy system, planning a transition from the unknown 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