Management Considerations for the Battalion Targeting System Program. Lessons Learned from a Previous Effort
Abstract
The Department of Defense has been undertaking two endeavors, one of which is focused on improving the system acquisition process and the other which is focused on the exploitation of available technology for conventional warfare. The process improvement endeavor is a response to the Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management and the Nichols-Goldwater Act, both of which call for technology demonstrations in the system acquisition process. The endeavor to exploit technology for conventional warfare is known as the Balanced Technology Initiative (BTI), which is a Congressionally authorized and funded program managed within the Office of the Secretary of Defense. The Battalion Targeting System (BTS) program has been part of the Balanced Technology Initiative and has within its scope technology integration and demonstration activities of the kind mandated in the Blue Ribbon Commission Report and the Nichols-Goldwater Act. This study provides a review of efforts to integrate and demonstrate emerging technologies to satisfy new operational concepts. The focus of the study is on management considerations which facilitate or interfere with timely accomplishment of technology demonstrations.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 31, 1991
- Accession Number
- ADA240053
Entities
People
- Harry A. Gieske