Owning the Technical Baseline - a Key Enabler: Agility as the Counterweight to Uncertainty and Change

Abstract

The basic acquisition environment involves constant change. The threat to United States interests is going to change, technology is going to change and warfighters will discover different ways to use their equipment. In order for weapon systems to accommodate these certain yetin specific termsoften unpredicted future changes, we must design systems up front to be constantly modified, perhaps in ways that we may not be able to anticipate now but will discover in the future. This fundamentally means we must embrace adaptability as a basic precept for how we develop, procure and sustain our weapons systems to be effective for the warfighter over their life cycles.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2015
Accession Number
AD1016084

Entities

People

  • William A. Laplante

Organizations

  • United States Secretary of the Air Force

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Procurement
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Contractors
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Life Cycles
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Military Acquisition
  • National Security
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Small Business
  • Standards
  • United States
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design