Who Says You Have a Major Development Program.

Abstract

This report attempts to identify the main considerations currently used in the designation of a development program as major. While primarily considering Air Force programs, certain Army and Navy programs were also included. The principle references sources were: DOD Directives, the OSD Budget Manual, OMB Major System Acquisition Policy, HQ USAF/HQ AFSC Assessment Reviews, and the final report of the Acquisition Advisory Group. Section II of the report describes the criteria for different types of major programs used in Section III the data is evaluated to determine the degree the stated criteria are being met or surpassed on a practical basis. Included is an examination of the new OMB policy of reviewing, in detail, the front end of the acquisition process and the recent decision by the Deputy Sec Def to delegate certain DSARC 1 reviews to the Service Secretaries. The report concludes that from a practical view, dollar thresholds ($50M RDT and E/$200M Investment) for DSARC programs are unrealistically low.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 12, 1976
Accession Number
ADA032501

Entities

People

  • John W. Hilten

Organizations

  • Defense Systems Management College

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Air Force Budgets
  • Budgets
  • Business Administration
  • Congress
  • Defense Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Directives
  • Investments
  • Procurement
  • Program Management
  • Project Management
  • Systems Management
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.