Navy Mobile Apps Acquisition: Doing It in Weeks, Not Months or Years

Abstract

Private industry and the Military both recognize the need to develop mobile applications (apps) to meet the growing demand for delivering content in a way that supports end-users needs and preferences. The U.S. Navy has been examining all the conceivable strategic, policy, and security issues surrounding mobile application development and deployment, but limited Navy commands have had success implementing a policy and development methodology for meeting widespread end-user needs. One exception has been the Program Executive Office (PEO) for Enterprise Information Systems (EIS), a U.S. Navy Program Executive Office whose mission is developing and sustaining business Information Technology (IT) systems for the Navy. One of their primary customers, the Chief of Naval Personnel, challenged PEO EIS to develop a strategy and development methodology for quickly developing mobile applications to meet a variety of Navy Human Resource (HR) needs. PEO EIS, through a designation to one of its Program Management Offices (PMOs)PMW 240, or the Sea Warrior Programemployed an innovative approach for design, development, and acquisition of mobile applications that has allowed it to field multiple mobile applications in just 812 weeks per application given strong customer engagement. To date, PMW 240 has fielded eight applications in the past year with dozens more in the planning and development phases.This paper will share the innovative methodology, Systems Engineering Technical Review (SETR) process, and Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) insights that have allowed PMW 240 to field mobile apps rapidly. It will also discuss some of the challenges and next steps to expanding the Navy HR mobile application capabilities. Since PMW 240 is an acquisition executor, all processes, innovations, and insights will be presented from a practitioner perspective in hopes of benefiting other practitioner organizations that require mobile application deployment for their end-users.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 30, 2016
Accession Number
AD1016713

Entities

People

  • Dave Driegert
  • Jacob Aplanalp
  • Kenneth S. Johnson
  • Kevin Burnett

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Management Personnel
  • Mobile Application Software
  • Mobile Devices
  • Naval Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Social Media
  • Systems Engineering
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.