Achieving Effective Results in Acquisition Guidelines for Recommended Actions

Abstract

The federal government is experiencing great difficulty in acquiring the products and services necessary to adapt to the ever-changing capabilities of the new technologies used by consumers and adversaries. Despite years of dedicated acquisition reforms, many federal acquisition programs continue to underperform, significantly overrunning their planned costs and schedules. To improve the success of federal acquisition programs, MITRE focused on examining successful programs, discerned the principles and practices that made them successful, and determined which ones could be applied to other programs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2009
Accession Number
AD1107346

Entities

People

  • Mike Kelley
  • Rob Kepner

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Complex Systems
  • Computer Programming
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Corporations
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Information Assurance
  • Information Systems
  • Logistics
  • Military Acquisition
  • Performance Engineering
  • Personnel Management
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • System Of Systems
  • Systems Engineering
  • Teamwork
  • Test And Evaluation

Readers

  • Economics
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Systems Analysis and Design