Author: Irv Blickstein
Publisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN: 9780833059277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, to investigate root causes by examining program reviews, analyzing data, participating in contractor briefings, and holding meetings with diverse stakeholders.
Root Cause Analyses of Nunn-McCurdy Breaches, Volume 1
Author: Irv Blickstein
Publisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN: 9780833059277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, to investigate root causes by examining program reviews, analyzing data, participating in contractor briefings, and holding meetings with diverse stakeholders.
Publisher: RAND Corporation
ISBN: 9780833059277
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Congressional concern with cost overruns, or breaches, in several major defense acquisition programs led the authors, in a partnership with the Performance Assessments and Root Cause Analysis Office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics, to investigate root causes by examining program reviews, analyzing data, participating in contractor briefings, and holding meetings with diverse stakeholders.
Powering Science
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309463831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development. These missions span the scientific fields associated with SMD's four divisionsâ€"Astrophysics, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Sciences. Because a single mission can consist of multiple spacecraft, NASA-SMD is responsible for nearly 100 operational spacecraft. The most high profile of these are the large strategic missions, often referred to as "flagships." Large strategic missions are essential to maintaining the global leadership of the United States in space exploration and in science because only the United States has the budget, technology, and trained personnel in multiple scientific fields to conduct missions that attract a range of international partners. This report examines the role of large, strategic missions within a balanced program across NASA-SMD space and Earth sciences programs. It considers the role and scientific productivity of such missions in advancing science, technology and the long-term health of the field, and provides guidance that NASA can use to help set the priority of larger missions within a properly balanced program containing a range of mission classes.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309463831
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 127
Book Description
NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) currently operates over five dozen missions, with approximately two dozen additional missions in development. These missions span the scientific fields associated with SMD's four divisionsâ€"Astrophysics, Earth Science, Heliophysics, and Planetary Sciences. Because a single mission can consist of multiple spacecraft, NASA-SMD is responsible for nearly 100 operational spacecraft. The most high profile of these are the large strategic missions, often referred to as "flagships." Large strategic missions are essential to maintaining the global leadership of the United States in space exploration and in science because only the United States has the budget, technology, and trained personnel in multiple scientific fields to conduct missions that attract a range of international partners. This report examines the role of large, strategic missions within a balanced program across NASA-SMD space and Earth sciences programs. It considers the role and scientific productivity of such missions in advancing science, technology and the long-term health of the field, and provides guidance that NASA can use to help set the priority of larger missions within a properly balanced program containing a range of mission classes.
Future of NPOESS : results of the NunnMcCurdy review of NOAA’s weather satellite program : hearing
Author:
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422321409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422321409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Pitfalls in Calculating Cost Growth from Selected Acquisition Reports
Author: Paul G. Hough
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Cost growth is a highly visible phenomenon in the procurement of major weapon systems. In general, cost growth is the ratio of a weapon system's current estimate of cost to that of some earlier estimate. Thus, even given the same current estimate, different measures of cost growth are possible, depending on which prior estimate is selected as the baseline. Most studies of cost growth, however, select the cost estimate made at the time of program entry into full-scale development (the development estimate) as the baseline. Both the current estimate and the development estimate are normally taken from the Selected Acquisition Report (SAR), a legally mandated summary report on the status of major acquisition programs. This Note identifies and explains the type of cost data found in the SAR and reviews the history of the SAR with respect to cost reporting. In spite of changes that have improved the quality and comprehensiveness of the data in the SAR, it still presents difficulties for measuring cost growth. Among the most notable problems are failure of some programs to use a consistent baseline cost estimate, exclusion of some significant elements of cost, exclusion of certain classes of major programs, and constantly changing preparation guidelines. Nevertheless, the author concludes that SAR data are suitable for identifying broad-based trends and temporal patterns across a range of programs.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Cost growth is a highly visible phenomenon in the procurement of major weapon systems. In general, cost growth is the ratio of a weapon system's current estimate of cost to that of some earlier estimate. Thus, even given the same current estimate, different measures of cost growth are possible, depending on which prior estimate is selected as the baseline. Most studies of cost growth, however, select the cost estimate made at the time of program entry into full-scale development (the development estimate) as the baseline. Both the current estimate and the development estimate are normally taken from the Selected Acquisition Report (SAR), a legally mandated summary report on the status of major acquisition programs. This Note identifies and explains the type of cost data found in the SAR and reviews the history of the SAR with respect to cost reporting. In spite of changes that have improved the quality and comprehensiveness of the data in the SAR, it still presents difficulties for measuring cost growth. Among the most notable problems are failure of some programs to use a consistent baseline cost estimate, exclusion of some significant elements of cost, exclusion of certain classes of major programs, and constantly changing preparation guidelines. Nevertheless, the author concludes that SAR data are suitable for identifying broad-based trends and temporal patterns across a range of programs.
Tools to Prevent Defense Department Cost Overruns
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Hearing on National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 and Oversight of Previously Authorized Programs Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, First Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Air and Land Forces
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Defense Acquisitions
Author: Moshe Schwartz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program: U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Cyber Command; Military posture; U.S. Central Command and U.S. Africa Command; U.S. Northern Command and U.S. Southern Command; U.S. Pacific Command and U.S. Forces Korea; Navy Posture; Army Posture; Army active and reserve force mix; Air Force posture; Recommendations of the National Commission on the Structure of the Air Force; Reform of the Defense Acquisition System
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Military research
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Department of Defense Authorization for Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2015 and the Future Years Defense Program, Part 1, February 27: March 5, 6, 13, 25, 27; April 3, 8, 10, 29, 30, 2014, 113-2
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1184
Book Description
Defense Acquisition Reform
Author: Moshe Schwartz
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781503000278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Department of Defense (DOD) relies extensively on contractors to equip and support the U.S. military in peacetime and during military operations, obligating more than $300 billion on contracts in FY2013.
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781503000278
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Department of Defense (DOD) relies extensively on contractors to equip and support the U.S. military in peacetime and during military operations, obligating more than $300 billion on contracts in FY2013.