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Author Arena, Mark V., author

Title Management perspectives pertaining to root cause analyses of Nunn-McCurdy breaches. Vol. 4 : program manager tenure, oversight of acquisition category II programs, and framing assumptions / Mark V. Arena, Irv Blickstein, Abby Doll, Jeffrey A. Drezner, James G. Kallmani, Jennifer Kavanagh, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Megan McKernan, Charles Nemfakos, Rena Rudavsky, Jerry M. Sollinger, Daniel Tremblay, Carolyn Wong
Published Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xxx, 115 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Program Manager Tenure -- Oversight of ACAT II Programs -- Framing Assumptions -- Conclusions
Summary Concern with cost overruns in major defense acquisition programs led Congress to direct investigation of the root causes of overruns in programs that have breached Nunn-McCurdy thresholds. The authors calculate program manager tenure to determine whether tenures have lengthened since policy guidance was issued in 2005 and 2007. They also address the question of whether existing decentralized systems used to track the cost growth and performance of acquisition category II programs are sufficient or whether additional centralized guidance and control from the Office of the Secretary of Defense are warranted. A third question deals with the management of cost and schedule risk and whether the identification of key assumptions, which the authors call framing assumptions, could be a useful risk management tool
Notes "RAND National Defense Research Institute."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-115)
Notes English
Print version
Subject United States. Department of Defense -- Procurement -- Costs
SUBJECT United States. Department of Defense fast
Subject Defense contracts -- United States
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom.
Armed Forces -- Procurement -- Costs
Armed Forces -- Weapons systems -- Costs
Defense contracts
SUBJECT United States -- Armed Forces -- Weapons systems -- Costs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139906
United States -- Armed Forces -- Equipment -- Costs
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Blickstein, Irv, 1939- author.
Doll, Abby, author
Drezner, Jeffrey A., author
Kavanagh, Jennifer, 1981- author
McCaffrey, Daniel F., author
McKernan, Megan, author
Nemfakos, Charles Panagiotis, author
Sollinger, Jerry M., author
Tremblay, Daniel, author
Wong, Carolyn, 1952- author.
Acquisition and Technology Policy Center.
Rand Corporation, publisher.
United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
ISBN 9780833083791
0833083791