Frequency of Quantitative Decision Support Techniques Used by Air Force System Acquisition Managers

Abstract

The main focus of this thesis was to determine if exposing an Air Force system acquisition midlevel program manager to a computer aided quantitative decision support technique in an academic environment, affected the frequency that the manager used quantitative decision support techniques in actual program and project problems. A quantitative decision support technique, decision tree analysis, was taught in the Intermediate Program Management (SYS- 400 Professional Continuing Education (PCE) course at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. Before this research began, the classes were doing the decision tree calculations without the aid of a computer. This study focused on whether modifying the curriculum to teach the use of PC based decision support system (DSS) decision tree computations to program managers would effect the frequency they used quantitative techniques in addressing actual program and project problems. Keywords: Decision support systems; Program managers; Systems management; Experimental design; Decision making. (jes)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1989
Accession Number
ADA215577

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  • Mark J. Donahue

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  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

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  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Engineers
  • Information Processing
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personal Computers
  • Risk Analysis
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Students
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  • Systems Engineering
  • Systems Management

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