IPPD is an approach to systems acquisition which brings together all of the functional disciplines required to develop, design, test, produce and field a system. This is essentially the same as Concurrent Engineering. [DSMC 1]
I-IPPD yindlela yokufumana iinkqubo ezidibanisa zonke izifundo ezifunekayo ukuphuhlisa, ukuyila, ukuvavanya, ukuvelisa kunye nokukhusela inkqubo. Oku kubaluleke ngokulinganayo nobuNjineli obenzeka ngaXeshanye bohamba kunye. [DSMC 1]