Defense Acquisition Research Journal. Volume 24, Number 1, Issue 80, January 2017
Abstract
The theme for this edition of Defense Acquisition Research Journal is Thinking Small in Order to Think Big, as many of the articles drill down into the important details of processes and procedures in order to develop larger lessons for defense acquisition. The first article, Survey of Small Business Barriers to Department of Defense Contracts, by Ronnie Schilling, Thomas A. Mazzuchi, and Shahram Sarkani, examines the factors that small businesses see as inhibiting them from pursuing defense contracts, which Better Buying Power specifically attempts to encourage. They found that lack of communications and long timelines for approvals and decisions were some of the most important reasons cited by small business leaders. The next article, Using Heuristics for Supportability Analysis of Adaptive Weapon Systems in Combat, by Samuel H. Amber argues that, given the difficulty of obtaining supportability data on deployed weapon systems that often have been modified for combat, incorporating heuristics as an alternative field data source in the decision matrix can improve the development of supportability requirements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1029336
Entities
Organizations
- Defense Acquisition University