Army Science Board 1993 Summer Study on Innovative Acquisition Strategies for the 90s
Abstract
After reviewing the new National Military Strategy, the security environment (post cold war), and the modernization vision of jointly deploying to contingencies and maintaining land force dominance, the panel looked at three time frames from which to base its recommendations (1980s, Now, and the Future). Five recommendations were made and will be reviewed in turn, (1) technology upgrades, (2)digitization, (3) simulation, (4) acquisition system, and (5) resources. The Army acquisition strategies for the 1990s are evolving to a future set where technology upgrades will be the option for continued land force dominance as opposed to the new starts of the 1980s. Digitization will be the key strategy to total synchronization of the battlefield by control of the battle space, the tempo, and the environment. New processes and controls such as a two step acquisition process are available from the best commercial practices of industry. They should be applied to modernization through technology upgrades to carry out the vision of land force dominance. Metrics and standards will supplant competition as the control mechanism for costs, risk, performance, and schedule. The Army needs to settle in to a sole source environment within a stable of qualified vendors. Properly controlled, this will assure a vendor base and avoid the no longer affordable cost of competition's sake. The move to the future will not be business as usual. The recommendations of this study call for cultural change. The Army is off to a great start and now needs to shift gears to accelerate this new way of doing business into the mainstream of acquisition.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1994
- Accession Number
- ADA286327
Entities
People
- David C. Hardison
- Donald S. Pihl
- Edward C. Brady
- Frederick E. Hartman
- Janet T. Vasak
- John H. Cafarella
- John W. Woodmansee
- John. D. Rittenhouse
- Joyce L. Shields
- Louis C. Wagner Jr.
- Philip C. Dickinson
- Richard L. Haley
- Roger P. Heinlach
- Wesley L. Harris
- William P. Brown