Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Doing Data Right in Weapon System Acquisition

Abstract

Acquisition data are the foundation of decision making, management, and oversight of the weapon-system acquisition portfolio for the Department of Defense. How to effectively and efficiently spend these dollars has been a top priority for the Better Buying Power initiatives led by the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. OSD asked the RAND Corporation to help identify how available data can help assist defense-acquisition decision making. In particular, we documented where data reside, who can access the data, and who owns the information in 21 information systems. This builds on our earlier work (Riposo et al., 2015, and McKernan et al., 2016) by exploring in more detail the data that support decision making.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1085277

Entities

People

  • Kathryn Connor
  • Mary E. Chenoweth
  • Megan Mckernan
  • Nancy Y. Moore

Organizations

  • RAND Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Best Practices
  • Business Administration
  • Combatant Commanders
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Governments
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Knowledge Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Acquisition
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Operations Security
  • Organizational Structure
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics