Balancing Army Data Acquisition Policies and Practices

Abstract

Voluminous data is acquired to support Department of Defense weapons and other purchased hardware. Procurement and Production officials have concluded that data costs are on the rise and corrective action is necessary to overcome this potentially serious problem. Through a survey of studies and guidance documents, the structure of data management policy is modeled officials, and policy-makers, an operational practices model is developed and described. Comparison of these two models and a comparative examination of contracted data requirements led to the study findings. Excessive, redundant, and deficient data requirements may be reduced or identified through the use of a proposed Data Requirements Checklist. Determination of data adequacy may be improved by instructing contractors to deliver data products to a singel technical office. Specifications, drawing packages, technical publications, and computer programs should be separately priced.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA143365

Entities

People

  • T. Worthington

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Procurement
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Contracts
  • Data Acquisition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineers
  • Governments
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Reliability
  • Standards
  • Systems Engineering
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Systems Analysis and Design