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Prolonged cycle times and schedule growth in defense acquisition : a literature review
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ISBN: 0833086731 9780833086730 0833085158 9780833085153 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand ;

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This report summarizes a selection of the defense acquisition literature from the 1960s to the present on potential sources of prolonged acquisition cycle times and schedule growth, as well as potential opportunities for improvement. It presents the range of possible causes of schedule-related problems and various recommendations cited for improving schedules by various authors and organizations. This report does not provide critical analysis or an assessment of the strengths or weaknesses of the claims made in the literature. Rather, it provides a starting point for further research or consideration by government acquisition professionals, oversight organizations, and the analytic community. We identified the following reasons for schedule delays in the literature: (1) the difficulty of managing technical risk (e.g., program complexity, immature technology, and unanticipated technical issues), (2) initial assumptions or expectations that were difficult to fulfill (e.g., schedule estimates, risk control, requirements, and performance assumptions), and (3) funding instability. The most commonly cited recommendations for reducing cycle time and controlling schedule growth in the literature are strategies that manage or reduce technical risk. Some of those recommendations include using incremental fielding or evolutionary acquisition strategies, developing derivative products (rather than brand-new designs), using mature or proven technology (i.e., commercial, off-the-shelf components), maintaining stable funding, and using atypical contracting vehicles.


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Army sustainment.
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ISSN: 21536015 Year: 2009 Publisher: Fort Lee, Va. : Army Logistics University,

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Defense acquisition research journal (Online)
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ISSN: 21568405 21568391 Publisher: Fort Belvoir, Va. Defense Acquisition University Press


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Defence procurement and industry policy : a small country perspective.
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ISBN: 9780415362887 9780203013694 9781134229871 9781134229918 9781134229925 9781138805446 Year: 2010 Publisher: London ; Routledge


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Sources of weapon system cost growth : analysis of 35 major defense acquisition programs
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ISBN: 1281736554 9786611736552 0833045245 0833042890 9780833045249 9780833042897 9781281736550 Year: 2008 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : ©2008 Rand Corp.,

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This analysis uses data from Selected Acquisition Reports to determine the causes of cost growth in 35 mature major defense acquisition programs. Four major sources of growth are identified: (1) errors in estimation and scheduling, (2) decisions by the government, (3) financial matters, and (4) miscellaneous. The analysis shows that more than two-thirds of cost growth (measured as simple averages) is caused by decisions, most of which involve quantity changes, requirements growth, and schedule changes.

An operational process for workforce planning
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ISBN: 1282451146 9786612451140 083304835X 1598753207 0833034529 9780833048356 9781282451148 9781598753202 9780833034526 6612451149 Year: 2004 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand,

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Workforce planning is an activity intended to ensure that investment in human capital results in the timely capability to effectively carry out an organization's strategic intent. This report examines the purposes of workforce planning, identifies key factors contributing to successful workforce planning, and describes a RAND-developed process for conducting workforce planning.


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Small business and strategic sourcing : lessons from past research and current data
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ISBN: 0833082310 0833082078 0833082302 9780833082077 9780833082305 9780833082312 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, California : RAND,

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The Department of Defense (DoD) may face challenges as it attempts to maintain its goal of spending about 23 percent of prime-contract dollars for goods and services with small businesses and at the same time apply strategic-sourcing practices to reduce total costs and improve performance and efficiency and in ways that will not conflict with small-business goals.


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Army AL & T.
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ISSN: 15551385 Year: 2000 Publisher: Fort Belvoir, VA : Acquisition Career Management Office,


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Air Force journal of logistics.
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ISSN: 15549593 0270403X Year: 1980 Publisher: Maxwell AFB, Gunter Annex, AL : Air Force Logistics Management Agency


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Visible Costs and Invisible Benefits : Military Procurement as Innovation Policy
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ISBN: 3319669931 3319669923 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This book examines the historic role of professional and demanding military customers in industrial development. Particular emphasis is paid to public procurement of military equipment as a catalyst for innovation; and the civilian commercialization of military technologies (from gunpowder and cannons to submarines, missiles and aircraft) is documented by many case illustrations that show how macro-level productivity advance has been generated. A complementary volume to Advancing Public Procurement as Industrial Policy (2010), which focused on the spillover effects of the Swedish combat aircraft, Gripen, in this book Gunnar Eliasson widens the perspective to cover product development across the Swedish defense industry, with an emphasis on regional economic development and macro-economics, inter alia through the involvement of Saab (aircraft) and Kockums (submarines) in partnership ventures in Australia, Norway and Brazil.  The volume is organized into four parts. Part one examines the historical transformation of the Swedish economy over the past three centuries from agriculture and raw materials to an advanced industrial economy. Part two presents detailed case studies to illustrate the spillover effects of procurement projects and military-industrial partnerships. Part three explains the spillover phenomenon theoretically within a dynamic micro- to macro-economic perspective. Particular emphasis is placed on the empirical credibility of model-based economy-wide and dynamic cost-benefit calculations. The book concludes with a section on fostering industrial development through public procurement. The result is a book that will appeal to economists in the industrial economics and management fields; to technical, marketing and purchasing executives in business; and to policy makers in public procurement concerned with innovation and long-run industrial development.

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