Enhancing DSN operations efficiency with the discrepancy reporting management system (DRMS)

Abstract

The DRMS is the Discrepancy Reporting Management System used by the Deep Space Network (DSN). It uses a web interne and is a management tool designed to track and manage: data outage incidents during spacecraaft tracks against equipment and sofhvare known as DRs (discrepancy Reports), to record "out of pass" incident logs against equipment and softare in a Station Log, to record instances where equipment has be restarted or reset as Reset records, and to electronically record equipment readiness status across the DSN. Tracking and managing these items increases DSN operational effienncy by providing: the ability to establish the operational history of equipment items, data on the quality of service provided to the DSN customers, the ability to measure service performance, early insight into processes, procedures and intefaces that may need updating or changing, and the capability to trace a data outage to a software or hardware change. The items listed above help the DSN to focus resources.