Materiel Acquisition Management Guide
Abstract
The basic objective of the Guide is to assist Army acquisition managers in carrying out their assigned responsibilities. It does this by providing a vehicle for the rapid and concise transmittal of Headquarters' guidance to these managers, by permitting them to have ready access to the DARCOM 'institutional memory' through an integration of 'lessons learned' into its format. The Guide also provides a tool that each manager may use to collect and collate his own 'institutional memory' in identifying and organizing the status of his program or assessing the impact of alternative acquisition approaches or changes as they occur. The Guide provides the acquisition manager with a means to identify key organizational or activity issues and considerations quickly and accurately. It enhances his ability to be responsive in identifying and resolving problems. The Guide will be kept current through periodic user feedback and the distribution of updated guidelines that reflect policy changes or new initiatives. Users of the Guide will find that its structure provides a convenient means to catalog and collate their own 'institutional memory,' and it will help them to communicate needs more explicitly to both Headquarters and subordinate organizations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Feb 11, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA086575