Investigating Schedule Length of Space and Missile Systems Center Contracts

Abstract

Acquisition reform has long been the goal of the Department of Defense to save, recover and redistribute funds in an efficient manner. The Space and Missile Systems Center Program Management and Integration Directorate (SMC/PI) and Acquisitions Center of Excellence (ACE) have shared the same effort and have made strides to better their acquisition processes. Many different angles have been examined to try to discover cost and schedule growth however, little research has been done to find the drivers of schedule length. This research is aimed at finding contributing factors to the length of schedule of the pre-acquisition process. By using Fishers Exact test and contingency table analysis programs were explored to find what factors contribute to the length of schedule. The results of this analysis show significance can be found in the contracts type, strategy and the phases in which a program is in. Additionally, the research shows significance with programs that waive stages.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Mar 01, 2019
• Accession Number: AD1076784

Entities

People

• Loyd A. Jr Bradley

Organizations

• Air Force Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Biomedical
• Energy and Power Technologies
• Human Systems
• Space
• Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Air Force
• Business Administration
• Commerce
• Contracts
• Data Set
• Data Sets
• Department Of Defense
• Descriptive Analytics
• Digital Data
• Engineering
• Governments
• Information Science
• Military Acquisition
• Organizational Structure
• Procurement
• Program Management
• Regression Analysis
• Small Business
• Standards
• Statistical Analysis
• Statistics
• Test And Evaluation
• Training
• United States
• United States Government

Readers

• Government Contracting/Procurement.
• Missile Defense Systems.
• Regression Analysis.

Technology Areas

• Space