Choice among Strategies for System Acquisition

Abstract

Improvement in the process of acquiring major weapon systems has been the subject of analyses and policy recommendations for several decades. While system costs have increased as weapon systems have grown more complex, for programs of comparable duration and technical difficulty the extent of cost growth over original estimates has not significantly improved. Furthermore, there is little evidence that procedural changes in recent practices of system acquisition will produce important improvements. To obtain a better understanding of this evidence, a model capturing the dimensions of and controls over an acquisition program is developed and analyzed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1972
Accession Number
AD0748915

Entities

People

  • Alvin J. Harman

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Business Administration
  • Coefficients
  • Commerce
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Equations
  • Factor Analysis
  • Fighter Aircraft
  • Measurement
  • Procurement
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistical Tests
  • Statistics
  • Surveys
  • Weapon Systems

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design