Army Programming Stability.
Abstract
Stability in programs constitutes one of six ways that Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney intends to improve the defense acquisition system. Posing the question, Why doesn't the Defense Department have stable programming? to a dozen military officers stationed in the Pentagon; some would blame contractors and some would blame OSD but most would blame Congress. Posing the same question to OSD, contractors, or Congress, they would answer it was because the Services do not know what they want. Asked to define a stable program, there be as many different answers as individuals or groups asked. The most common answer received to the question of what is a stable program is, I can't define it but I know it when I see it . This paper analyzes program stability. The author looks at program stability from two aspects, MICROprogram stability and MACROprogram stability. These concepts are defined and illustrated. Three measurement techniques of are introduced; horizontal, vertical, and averaging. A test analysis, using MACROprogramming measurements of stability, is conducted on the seven Army procurement appropriations and eleven individual systems.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1990
- Accession Number
- ADA241054
Entities
People
- David L. Iverson
Organizations
- Air War College