Current Issues in Military Program Control,

Abstract

There is currently a national furor over the way the U.S. manages its large military programs. Some of it reflects a genuine disagreement over how these programs should be controlled. The paper presents a number of the issues involved in this disagreement and develops the thesis that the U.S. is polarizing into two diverging camps on their resolution: one focused on resources and the other on products. It then concludes that because there is much merit to the argument presented on both sides of many of these issues, the direction which must be taken in the program control field is not to attempt to resolve the individual issues directly. Rather, it is to deal with root causes which can accommodate both points of view. It then offers a sample of three suggestions in this regard. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0728740

Entities

People

  • Norman Waks

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Governments
  • Political Science
  • Public Administration

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Systems Analysis and Design