Understanding Complexity and Self-Organization in a Defense Program Management Organization (Experimental Design)

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DoD) spends at least 60% of its budget for the acquisition and sustainment of new material capability and services. The DoDs track record with regard to maximizing value from this investment has been poor, to say the least, and warrants a more in-depth understanding of the root cause of the problem. The lack of a successful integrated network approach to the problem of poor program performance is evident in the many significant cost and schedule program overruns and the failure of legislation and policy emanating from initiatives such as the Packard Commission study, Goldwater-Nichols Legislation, and more recently, the Better Buying Power initiative.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 18, 2016
Accession Number
AD1016681

Entities

People

  • Raymond Jones

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Military Acquisition
  • Network Science
  • Organizational Structure
  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Public Policy
  • Radio Equipment
  • Self Organizing Systems
  • Situational Awareness
  • Systems Engineering
  • Tactical Radios
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Theoretical Analysis.