ALLOCATED BASELINE

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The Allocated Baseline is the product of the Preliminary Design stage of the system lifecycle. The Allocated Baseline has a subsystem-level focus and provides a physical architecture for the system at the subsystem level. The Allocated Baseline is called "allocated" because the subsystem functionality that flows from the system-level Functional Baseline is now allocated to physical subsystems. The physical subsystems in the Allocated Baseline are called Configuration Items. The principal component of the Allocated Baseline are Development Specifications, which normally exist for each Configuration Item. Development Specifications are detailed descriptions of the functionality of the configuration item, at the subsystem level, grouped physically.
     The Allocated Baseline describes the Physical Architecture of the system.

Other topics in our resources on Systems Engineering related to Allocated Baseline include: 

Product Baseline

Functional Baseline

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