A Game-Theoretic Approach to Optimizing Behaviors in Acquisition

Abstract

Project Overview: Government As The Integrator (GATI) is now preferred approach Incentives among contractors may not align with program objectives. Poor contractor cooperation causes delays, overruns, poor performance Government is still learning how to play the game of GATI acquisition. Research builds on prior work in: 1. Joint Program dynamic modelling. 2. Signalling game cybersecurity modelling. 3. Acquisition Archetypes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2017
Accession Number
AD1088002

Entities

People

  • William E. Novak

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Agent-Based Simulations
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cooperation
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Game Theory
  • Governments
  • Guarantees
  • Materials
  • Motivation
  • Productivity
  • Project Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Engineering
  • Universities

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Game Theory.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • Cyber