Unmanned Maritime Systems Incremental Acquisition Approach

Abstract

The purpose of this MBA report is to explore and understand the issues involved in the DODs acquisition process for Unmanned Maritime Systems (UMS) in order to recommend a new acquisition approach or solutions that would allow the military to keep pace with the rapid unmanned technology development cycle found in the commercial industry. We find that current UMS acquisitions are utilizing previous acquisition reforms, but could benefit from additional contractor peer competition and peer review. Additional cost and schedule benefits could result from contractor competition during build processes in each incremental process. We recommend that further analysis be performed to alleviate funding issues associated with evolutionary acquisition.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1030842

Entities

People

  • Jason Richesin
  • Thomas Driscoll

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
  • Business Administration
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Congress
  • Control Systems
  • Cost Reductions
  • Drones
  • Information Systems
  • Military Acquisition
  • Naval Operations
  • Open System Architecture
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
  • Unmanned Maritime Systems
  • Unmanned Maritime Vehicles
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Unmanned Underwater Vehicles

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy